ZDF Studios Launching FAST Channel in LatAm

ZDF Studios has aligned with Castalia Communications to develop a FAST service, featuring Spanish-language drama programs, for the LatAm region.

The partnership sees programming from the ZDF Studios catalog become available to Spanish-speaking viewers in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market. The launch of the first offering is scheduled for Q2 2024 and will focus on a selection of dramas that will be available to viewers in Spanish.

Luis Torres-Bohl, founder and CEO of Castalia Communications, said, “We are delighted to be working with one of Europe’s leading producers and distributors of television content. We are confident that our groundbreaking media project will be very successful throughout Latin America and with Spanish-speaking audiences in the U.S. We are honored to be part of this project that will bring stories of contemporary ‘Goethes and Schillers’ that will be very popular with viewers across the region.”

Susanne Frank, Director Drama at ZDF Studios, added: “We are very excited about this opportunity to work with an established partner and expert in this subject matter to bring our great catalog of programming to an interested audience in the Americas. We are convinced that this way, we will be able to open up completely new, interested target groups in the Spanish-speaking market.”