In launching the new season of Project Runway Latin America III, TVMAS held talks with Manuel Cuan, VP of channel marketing trends Turner Broadcasting Systems, where the executive stressed the importance of knowing the audience trends to consolidate signals.  “We are incorporating this season premieres on Channel Glitz* in order to strengthen our programming and seek consolidation of our signal. The three pillars of our channel are style, fashion and   Read more...

  Pense que iba a haber fiesta, the third feature film of Victoria Galardi as director and writer, will compete in Seccion Horizontes Latinos in the 2013 San Sebastian Festival. Victoria, who also participated in the event with her previous two films (Amorosa Soledad and Cerro Bayo), will turn up in Donosti to present the public and media her new work, starring Elena Anaya and Valeria Bertuccelli. Produced by Fernando   Read more...

  The campaign was conducted in Spain, under the direction of Stone. The announcement was made during the Media Tour held last week in Los Angeles Broadcast Center ( LABC ), the DirecTV broadcast center which emits signal to subscribers of the pay TV operator in the U.S. and HD content for Latin America. The operator’s goal is to communicate the special coverage that DirecTV  Sports is preparing, less than   Read more...

Turner Broadcasting System Latin America promoted Gretchen Colon to Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, in the area since 2003, as SVP, was able to reach sales volume multiplied by 12. So confirmed Juan Carlos Urdaneta, president of Turner Latin America. “The advertising sales business is a key engine for our region, and much of the credit to our continuing success is due to Gretchen. She has proven to be   Read more...

Latin World Entertainment, the talent and production company of Luis Balaguer and the actress herself Sofia Vergara, has become the emerging agency that prevails and wins in the Anglo market. The Colombian star and the highest paid TV actress in U.S. is able to achieve for the second consecutive year obtaining a figure of U.S. $30 million, according to Forbes magazine ranking. LatinWE currently is responsible for the executive production   Read more...

The average U.S. household spends U.S. $ 78.63 monthly for multichannel video service, which means an increase of 7.2% over the previous year, according to new consumer data from Leichtman Research Group. However, this rise in prices has not resulted in a widespread cancellation of pay TV subscriptions. The percentage of households that subscribe to pay TV service is at 87%, which is consistent with the past two years, and   Read more...

The first of the month, will launch in prime time “Number One” by TCS in El Salvador, a territory that bet a second time to a Dutch production format. During the second week you can see on the screen of Ecuador the first episode of the local version of “My Name Is” format is also currently airing in Peru, Bolivia and had great impact on Colombian and Chilean editions. On   Read more...

The new NAT GEO series, covers topics ranging from visual and auditory perception, creativity, lying, attractiveness and persuasion, Mind Games explores the human brain through a series of amazing experiments, optical illusions, ingenuity games and cold scientific data. With street demonstrations and public participation in interactive games. The Venezuelan Jason Silva, is the program director and a self-proclaimed “addicted to the wonders.” According to The Atlantic, “a filmmaker and TEDTalk   Read more...

La asociación Directores de Obras Audiovisuales para Televisión (Directors Association of Audiovisual Works for Television) (DOAT) launches a cycle of training series on the various aspects of the realization of fictions, to be held from September in the city of Buenos Aires. Recognized directors with experience and television productions broadcast in primetime of the Argentine television, will be in charge of different courses, seminars and workshops for students and professionals   Read more...

During the 9th and and 10th of September the “Digital TV Contents Conference” will be held at the Cisneros Auditorium of the Universidad Abierta Interamericana (UAI) of Buenos Aires. The event will feature the presence of 34 speakers and 190 attendees from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela and will be broadcast live via streaming. The “Sessions of Digital TV Contents” will cover the scope of multidisciplinary   Read more...