Video: Latin American Summit—Cable in LatAm

January 25, 2018 World Screen

A+E Networks’ Eduardo Ruiz, NBCUniversal’s Klaudia Bermudez-Key and HBO’s Francisco Smith weighed in on the challenges and opportunities in Latin America’s pay-TV sector during a NATPE panel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati.

The session was part of NATPE’s second-annual Latin American Summit, which also included panels on millennials and regional programming trends.

Ruiz, president and general manager of A+E Networks Latin America, oversees a portfolio of four brands: A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and H2. Bermudez-Key is senior VP and general manager of NBCUniversal International Networks LatAm, which encompasses E! Entertainment, Syfy, Telemundo Internacional, Universal Channel and Studio Universal. Both companies have distribution partnerships with HBO Latin America. Smith is the president of distribution and media at HBO Latin America, which operates its own branded premium services and distributes a bouquet of basic-cable networks.