SANTA MONICA: Months after acquiring mobile-video outfit Lightt, Latino MCN mitú has launched its own proprietary technology platform and brought on former Upworthy exec Michael Su as chief product officer. The company’s new offering provides an ability to discover, bring aboard and manage creators and influencers from across the social ...

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MIAMI: U.S. Latino channel NBC Universo is set to debut next week the sci-fi series Alphas in Spanish. The show will debut August 19 and air weekly on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. The one-hour drama from BermanBraun Television and Universal Cable Productions originally aired on Syfy in the U.S. It ...

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NEW YORK: In this video interview, Marcello Coltro, Cisneros Media's executive VP of content distribution, talks to TV Latina about activities at the company and more.   This October will mark one year since Coltro joined Cisneros Media. In this time, he has been responsible for overseeing its pay-TV and content ...

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SÃO PAULO: One of the main messages participants can take away from the 2015 version of ABTA Expo & Conference is that the current Brazilian political and economic crisis can be tackled with creativity. Experts in several fields, including operators, defend that so far the crisis did not interfere with ...

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SÃO PAULO: The 2015 edition of ABTA Expo & Conference opened yesterday with a call by the president of the Brazilian national film agency ANCINE, Manoel Rangel, for continuing investment in Brazil's pay-TV sector. Even though Brazil’s pay-TV landscape is currently showing the first signs of growth deceleration, “it doesn’t ...

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SÃO PAULO: The ABTA Expo & Conference has kicked off today at the Transamérica Expo Center, where top executives are set to discuss their vision of the opportunities and challenges in the Brazilian pay-TV market, among other topics. Panels and sessions scheduled for today include The Present and Future of ...

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MIAMI: NBC Universo and mitú are collaborating on Vive el Verano, a series of short-form videos meant to help Latino Millennials learn how to make the most of summer. Vive el Verano provides clips produced by mitú and features such stars as El Guzii, Maiah Ocando, Luan Palomera, Luisito Comunica ...

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BUENOS AIRES: FOX Sports Latin America has added to its schedule the NFL Thursday Night Football package, to be accompanied by the original production Impacto NFL before and after the live games. This marks the first time that the NFL Thursday Night Football package will be broadcast in Spanish in the ...

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MIAMI: The cult hit Battlestar Galactica, which remains one of the highest rated series ever on Syfy, is to air on NBC Universo in Spanish for the first time on U.S. television. From Universal Cable Productions, the sci-fi series launches on NBC Universo on July 29 at 9 p.m. It ...

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PANAMA CITY: Scripps Networks Latin America has secured carriage for Food Network on Cable Onda, the largest pay-TV platform in Panama. Food Network’s first Latin American launch was on Sky in Brazil in November 2014. This was followed by a pan-regional launch of the channel on DirecTV. Today, the service ...

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