Alejandro Harrison, CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Cello Latin America

“I am convinced that with our new organization and efficient management team, coupled with the support of Chellomedia, The Latin American team becomes a relevant player in the market, offering a large portfolio of channels and services for our customers andviewers,” said Harrison.

Marcello Coltro was named executive VP and COO (Chief Operating Officer). In his post,Coltro takes charge of advertising sales departments, marketing and external communications, digital and research and also forms part of the overall global strategy development programming.

Ricardo Deben is the new CFO (Chief Financial Officer), who will attend Harrison in the departments of finance and business development. Deben has worked in ChelloMulticanal, Spain, during the past six years, where he also served as CFO.

Marisa Pineiro has been named Head of Human Resources and Chello Country Managerfor Latin America for the Argentina office. Pineiro will also be in charge of corporate responsibility, compliance and   internal communications.

Finally, Jack Efromson was named CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Chello Latin Americaand will be responsible for managing and supporting all the company’s technologicalneeds. Efromson has 30 years of experience in the administration of cable TV andbroadcast TV.

The super production has arrived in 5 different continents and has recently arrived on DVD in Mexico and North America. Pablo Escobar, The Drug lord was also among the Top 50 formats that has changed the world of television in recent times according the Witlist.com portal, making it one of the most impeccable productions, breaking audience and rating records in Latin America and other countries that bought the series from Caracol TV Internacional.

LE MONDE

“Pablo Escobar arrives on French screens after having conquered the Hispanic audience in Latin America last year… This series has broken all records, not only in production costs but audience ratings. A historical 11 million viewers in its premiere, repeating this success in its debut on the Hispanic American network, Telemundo”

SATELLIFAX

“The Colombian series was rewarded with 11 awards during an international film festival in Cartagena, Colombia. Since its Premiere in May of last year, its become the series most loved by the public, reaching historical audience figures”

TV  GRANDES CHAINES

“Viewers will be caught up in this “scarface” which started from zero and met a dazzling rise, to the point of challenging the State. This series broke all audience records in Colombia and seduced the French public also”

VSD

“Pablo Escobar: an amazing story! 20 years after its elimination, this big fish is the object of a series of long duration which has caused controversy in Colombia and has pulverized historical ratings”

TELE CABLE SAT

“It’s the most expensive and most watched series on Colombian television and in many countries of Latin America… Pablo Escobar, the pattern of evil became a social and cultural phenomenon with pedagogical virtues that transcend the mere fun of a television series. Reaching historic levels of audience, we want this series to repeat success on France O”

TELEPOCHE

“With huge success in Latin America, Pablo Escobar’s pattern of evil reveals the fate of this historic character. The producers of the series, are victims of the cruelty of the head of the Medellín cartel, responsible for the deaths of many of his associates and family… This is a series on another level”

From 2014 all the country’s telecommunication companies will offer plans for fixed and mobile services to their customers, in bundled form. Today they are only entitled to use that mode with fixed telephone, fixed broadband and Pay TV.

The change will allow inclusion to that offer mobile broadband and mobile telephony, which involves offering four or five services jointly. And it’s not something the government has established or an agreement between the companies, but it allowed a ruling by TDLC in December last year.

In its opinion, known as the fault on net/off net (calls made on the network of a company to another) – the court identified six conditions to companies offering jointly telecommunications services (bundling).

The last one specifies the statements govern until the time the provision of data transmission services 4G has started in every one of the coverage areas defined in the concession decrees. “When that happens, will immediately void without an express declaration by this court,” says the report.

As Entel, Movistar and Claro will have deployed the 4G or LTE network in 2014 in the country, as pledged in the 2600 MHz spectrum tender, next year all telecommunication companies can offer their services on the same ballot.

This, regardless of whether they deliver to its customers 4G technology. Therefore, in the industry it’s believed that the ruling favors companies like VTR and GTD.

VTR’s commercial VP, Christian Ariztía, noted that “the court’s ruling was good news, because it recognizes a trend that is occurring throughout the world: companies are mutating 4Play (bundling four services) to take advantage of benefits of fixed-mobile convergence. In fact, in almost all Latin American countries, including Chile, Claro and Movistar are present, two international operators have fixed and mobile networks. Indeed, to face competition that will generate about bundling 4Play services is that it was essential for VTR to enter the mobile business so we can compete these fixed-mobile operators”, he explained.

Patricio Cáceres, Director of Strategy and Regulation of Movistar, shared that “we are preparing the business offer and systems needed to pass this new bundling stage in the mass market, now also with mobile services, as of March 2014. “

Entel, Claro and Nextel would not comment.

Today the industry can offer companies tied fixed and mobile services, because the TDLC only made it a condition rather than offering to individuals. In any case, the general instructions of the TDLC may be modified by the Supreme Court, which accepted it for processing the claim lodged by the enterprise “Tu Ves” in this case.

BaBarry Koch, president of Cartoon Network,
with Paul Zuccarino, VP and general manager of Cartoon Network Latin America

In this past April 28 in a well-known amusement park in Mexico City, the Pay TV channel Cartoon Network, celebrated its 20^th birthday with a large deployment of outfits with the iconic characters of the channel, as well as a musical performance by Esperanza Azteca Symphony Orchestra, which performed songs emblematic of the main channel animations.

“We are proud to celebrate 20 years of life. Since the birth of the channel, we always bet to bring our audience the best entertainment, and over the years we have managed to harvest a comprehensive list of successful and renowned shows that reinforce our leadership position in the market,” said Barry Koch, CEO of Cartoon Network.

Koch added that for the next decade they visualize a new stage and reach other markets such as Asia, as well as to bet on local products in Latin America as the series La CQ. Also, we hope to strengthen the family bond in activities such as Carrera Cartoon, which was born in Mexico and expanded worldwide.

For his part, Paul Zuccarino, VP and general manager of Cartoon Network Latin America, said: “Cartoon Network is not just a TV channel, is a multiplatform experience accompanying children in their day to day to interact with their favorite characters through television, computers, mobile tablets or mobiles”, concluded.

The channel’s history starts in December 1991, when Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. acquired the company Hanna-Barbera Entertainment Co., and launched a year later the first channel dedicated to cartoons in the United States. In 1993, Cartoon Network comes to Latin America in Spanish and Portuguese, becoming an icon of the animated series.

The entertainment license area of Smilehood led by Anita Caratini, company directed by Guillermo Tita Pino, owner also of a 360° contents studio and 3D animation, joins the opening of the fiction contents and distribution area of SMILEHOOD MEDIA guided since March 2013 by Silvana D’Angelo, a professional with extensive experience in this activity.

This area will be responsible for the production of television contents focused on international business and also be a fulcrum for the licensing platform, category Smilehood specialized to date.

Also DAngelo’s experience will position these new productions internationally. This new distribution unit product not only will represent its own products, but also third parties that have the ability to develop all the related business line.

SILVANA D’ANGELO

Among the products that Smilehood will submit at the Los Angeles Screenings; in Suite 1748 highlights the now famous El Payaso Plim Plim, an animated series which airs on Disney Junior successfully to 22 countries, and already has been acquired in several territories for the broad derived business Line created for the famous character, as a theatrical play to be released in Argentina in June and then begin its tour across Latin America. 

Plim Plim is now the face of massive brands in Argentina where it is already an educational benchmark for preschool age children. Another of the top products in this market is the musical teen drama WAKE UP, a Sebastian Mellino production in coproduction with Coca Cola and Warner TV will be available to all of Latin America from September 2013. The series has a wide portfolio of famous themes from the Warner music library for adaptation in each territory, and the Argentina version will feature Colombian Mexican and Argentine talents thus generating an international and neutral series.

Another hallmark of Smilehood Media is the excellent fiction library created especially for the web such asSEGÚN ROXI, sitcom that has shocked the social networks about a mother in absurd situations with which all women identify with and which is now in its second successful season, and YO SOY VIRGEN, musical teen drama now in its  3^rd season and still getting followers on all social networks, it was the first web series awarded in this category, both available.