Brazil’s Globosat and Colombia’s Caracol TV, Two major Latin America’s broadcasters, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch a Spanish-language pay-TV channel in the United States in 2015. This will be Globosat’s most ambitious international expansion to date.
What: Comcast and Univision Communications Inc. have reached a long-term agreement for Comcast to distribute Univision Deportes Network (UDN) to XFINITY TV customers. Why it matters: XFINITY TV
9 meses is a TV show that is currently expanding to other media platforms. Susy Rosado, the MC of the 2014 Portada LatAm Summit, as well as the founder, entrepreneur, and host of 9 meses, talks to us about the process behind the show.
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd., a leading provider of digital media services, including content management and global distribution services to the broadcasting industry, has announced the signing of a seven year agreement with Cisneros Media, producer of Spanish-language content in the Americas, as well as the owner and operator of Pay-TV channels in the region.
Hulu, the website and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service offering ad-supported, has launched 7 top titles from spanish-language broadcaster MundoFOX – including the current season of El Mariachi, to boost its Spanish programming lineup.
Brands and marketers were able to leverage unforeseen events at the just finished World Cup and associate them with their brand with social media and real-time marketing efforts. Of course, any brand can do that, not just the official sponsors.
El Rey Network executives has announced that Austin, Texas will be home to the production and corporate headquarters for the new English-language cable network founded by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
As the biggest show in the world, the 2014 Soccer World Cup, starts this Thursday June 12 at 4pm EST with the match between World Cup host Brazil and Croatia, Portada interviewed Juan Carlos Rodriguez, president of Univision Deportes, to talk about this major global marketing and advertising event.
Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and Televisa have announced that they have closed a deal to co-produce 12 series -,which involves 840 total hours of television , over the next five years for broadcast in México. SPT will produce the series in México featuring some of Televisa’s actors. In addition, the series will air in the U.S. on Univision’s Spanish-language broadcast network UniMás.
Chief Executive of ZenithOptimedia, Steve King (photo), has revealed the latest wave of advertising forecasts for the first time on stage at the Festival of Media Global in Rome.
NUVOtv parent company SiTV Media, Inc. and The Madison Square Garden Company have made an agreement for SiTV Media to acquire the Fuse network from MSG. NuvoTV will use Fuse TV to expand its audience.
Entravision Communications Corporation , has announced the launch of Todobebe , a content property focused on motherhood issues reaching Latinos in the US and Latin America across an integrated media platform, including digital and mobile media, television, radio and point-of-sale marketing services.
In a move to keep on winning the online video market, AOL has begun selling TV ads to media buyers, using Adap.tv’s technology.However,the company won’t say which national cable or broadcast networks have run the ads.
Comcast Corp. has acquired Time Warner Cable Inc. for about US $44 billion. The company has agreed to pay about US $159 per share of Time Warner Cable stock. The deal will combine the largest two US cable companies.
CNN Latino, the news network directed to the Hispanic market in the US, will close down its programming operations after a year, this February.
The battle between Netflix and HBO is not over. In the last quarter, Netflix has outdistanced HBO in terms of its number of US subscribers.
AT&T, Anheuser Busch, Pfizer have signed up as advertisers at Fox Deportes Spanish-language broadcast of the Super bowl this Sunday.The Super bowl between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks will be the first ever televised in Spanish in the United States.
Cisneros Media has announced the launch of Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD), a global distributor of programming and content for all platforms.
What? GroupM is opening a new media buying and planning agency focused on addressable TV. Why it matters? The agency will focus on addressable TV, hyper-local
WALT WHITE, meet Walter Blanco. The meth cook/criminal mastermind/chemistry teacher will live again, as Sony and Teleset remake Breaking Bad in Spanish for audiences in