by Hernán Amaya | Nov 21, 2019 | Content
Discovery Home & Health (Discovery Networks), a lifestyle channel, releases its first home-makeover original in Latin America for its Argentina feed on Tuesday, November 21. The show, entitled Mientras No Estabas (While You Were Out) and produced by Fremantle, is...
Argentina:
The Broadcasting Equipment Manufacturers and Suppliers Chamber claims government action to conclude transition to DTT
by Hernán Amaya | Nov 1, 2019 | DTT
During the opening session of Caper Show 2019, the president of the Argentine Broadcasting Equipment Manufacturers and Suppliers Chamber (Caper), Ricardo Solari, asserted that the central government should “promote and conclude transition to digital TV.” The entity...
Mexico:
Federal Telecommunications Institute confirms Televisa’s dominant Pay TV market position
by Virginia Anziano | Oct 15, 2019 | Pay TV
As it was pre-announced by the local press some days ago, IFT’s Research Unit has ascertained that Televisa group wields substantial power within the Pay TV market in 35 Mexican areas. This results from research conducted after Televisa’s purchase of infrastructure...
Global:
Canadian DHX Media to rebrand as WildBrain
by Gustavo Hernández | Oct 1, 2019 | Content
Canadian media production DHX Media (with a great presense in Latin America) announced that it changed its name to WildBrain and has begun rolling out a new corporate brand identity. WildBrain Entertainment was an American animation studio that DHX Media bought in...
Argentina:
Argentine Pay TV complains about tax burden asymetry compared with OTTs
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 25, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
The Argentine Cable TV Association (ATVC) has requested that its members “be released from tax burdens, high fees and excessive bureaucratic control” owing to the fact that they are “at a disadvantage in comparison with the newcomers to this market” (Editor’s note: a...