The payTV operator leader in digital television entertainment, DIRECTV announced the launch of Play, online content portal that offers up to 5,000 titles, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, from a PC, smartphone or tablet*. That is, how and when the viewer wants from any screen. Content is divided by movies , series, sports and channels, you can search by the name of the title, actors or with Read more...
From October 3 to 6, Moviecity, in conjunction with the main Pay TV operators in the region, will open its channels and will be available for all basic subscribers in Latin America to have a “Free pass” to the best releases and series its 6 exclusive channels: Moviecity Premieres, Moviecity Hollywood, Moviecity Action, Moviecity Family, Moviecity Mundo and Moviecity Classics. As plus, Moviecity offer subscribers the ability to watch the premiere of “Lynch – Final Season” on October 4. Read more...
The thriller that explores the tensions on the border between the U.S. and Mexico starring Demian Bichir and Diane Kruger, currently airs in 125 countries worldwide. FOX, partner co-financier of the series launched internationally in July, while at the same time premiered at the FX pay channel in the United States and Latin America in the 10 pm schedule. It also really helped the overall global marketing campaign launched by Read more...
‘Dancin Days’, a coproduction between Globo and SIC, has reached the end of its run in Portugal with great success. It’s finale aired on September 27 was the episode that had more viewers throughout the telenovela, it obtained 19,2 rating points and a share of 38%, with 1.850 million viewers (source: GFK). The telenovela premiered in June 2012 at primetime on the Portuguese channel and since that time has exceeded Read more...
Discovery Networks Latin America/ U.S. Hispanic ( DLA/USH), a division of Discovery Communications, a leading media company in factual genre globally, announced last week their annual upfront pre-event for markets in Mexico, Colombia and pan-regional Latin America for the next October 3, at 6 pm in the theater Adrienne Arsht Center in the city of Miami. “We continue to strengthen our leadership in the region through high quality content which Read more...
After its premiere on August 30 on American screens and September 20 in Mexico, No se Aceptan Devoluciones succeeded in both countries to be the highest Spanish grossing film in history in its first weekend. The film written by Guillermo Rios, Leticia Lopez Margalli and Eugenio Derbez and produced by Monica Lozano was seen by 3,361,268 viewers in Mexico in just three days, in 1,550 theaters. The opening the debut Read more...
The third largest telecommunications operator in Spain, Orange launched just as we in TVMAS anticipated, the new television service Orange TV, in order to access from any device (TV, tablets, smartphones and PC’s), in its bid for convergent services and the television business, “a business with great potential for growth in Spain”, as explained by the CEO of fixed business of the company, Samuel Muñoz (in Spain pay-tv has a penetration Read more...
NATPE Content First President and CEO Rod Perth today announced that the organization is relocating NATPE-Budapest to Prague in 2014 and renaming the market NATPE Europe to reflect an unwavering commitment to the growing European television industry. NATPE Europe will take place June 23-26, 2014 at the Hilton Prague Hotel. “Our move from Budapest to Prague represents a deep and ongoing commitment to the EEC countries and their growing television Read more...
Telefónica Studios to centralize under its brand all company projects and will produce in the next three years 25 quality feature films and television series for its Movistar TV service. The new producer looks to consolidate as a source of quality projects in both European and Latin American markets as in the Anglo-Saxon. The announcement was made as part of the 61 International Film Festival of San Sebastian, on September 23. Today Telefónica Studios Read more...
Zodiak Americas announced the rebrand of Zodiak USA as Zodiak Los Angeles and the appointment of Tony Yates as Chief Executive Officer of the new entity. Zodiak Los Angeles will be the new Los Angeles non-scripted production based in the West, where Yates will oversee a program listing that includes; “Secret Millionaire” (ABC), “Celebrity Wife Swap” (ABC) and “Killer Karaoke” (truTV). The executive will report directly to Jonny Slow, Chief Executive Officer of Read more...
