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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has sold a bevy of titles to various Latin American networks. Discovery Latin America went for several series, including The Illegal Eater, and renewed My Strange Addiction and The Dog Whisperer. Mexico’s MVS Multivision nabbed Homicide Hunter and Race to the Scene, while Brazil’s Globosat …

ENGLEWOOD: Fusion, the joint-venture network from Univision Communications and Disney/ABC Television Group, has launched nationwide in the U.S. on the DTH platform DISH. Delivering original news, sports and entertainment programming for "young, multicultural viewers," Fusion rolled out in October. DISH is the first platform to offer nationwide carriage of the …

MIAMI: Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD) is heading to this month’s NATPE Europe with a programming roster made up of telenovelas, a new tele-series and products from indie producers. Among its highlights are the telenovelas Sweet Thing and Emerald Heart, and the tele-series Criminal MasterMind. The company is also slated to …

MEXICO CITY: The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) of Mexico has determined that "preponderant" or dominant communications companies América Móvil and Grupo Televisa cannot hold the exclusive broadcast rights to four major sporting events. Those events, per the IFT, are “the Mexican national football team’s matches (men’s major category); the opening and …

SÃO PAULO: The two-day Brazil TV Forum kicked off today at the World Trade Center in São Paulo, bringing together 70 speakers and a slew of participants representing both local and international pay- and free-TV channels. This year’s theme is the type of television that the Brazilian market wants to build …

LOS ANGELES: Several hires have been made for the executive teams at the Latino-focused channel NUVOtv, with Bill Hilary leading the shakeup as the new president of SíTV Media, the network's parent company. Hilary, formerly the executive VP of programming for NUVOtv, assumes the newly created position effective immediately. He'll report to …

LONDON/MIAMI: In an effort to bolster its Latin American TV operations, NBCUniversal has named Klaudia Bermudez as senior VP and general manager of the region for Universal Networks International (UNI). Bermudez will start her new role on June 2 and will be based in Miami, where she’ll report to Ken …

MIAMI: Univision Communications is slated to unite all its platforms and media properties around the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, providing coverage that will include live broadcasts of 56 matches for digital and television screens, among other plans. The sporting event will take place from June 12 to July 13. …

LOS ANGELES: Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD) and Pausoka Entertainment have signed a deal giving CMD the exploitation rights for several formats in the Americas. Through the agreement, CMD will rep three of Pausoka’s program formats in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market. Those series are The Imposter, a reality …

NEW YORK: Azteca America, a subsidiary of Mexican broadcaster Azteca, has unveiled a programming strategy that includes a strengthened soccer lineup and new partnerships with digital-content leaders. Among the soccer news was the return of Mexican team Santos to Azteca’s Liga MX lineup, along with the creation of the new …