World Screen

NEW YORK: Globo TV International was in Budapest last week meeting with existing and new potential clients about its novela catalogue, which has already sold widely across the region, sales executive Gabriel Rohonyi tells World Screen.   “It’s fair to say that we’ve had a strong presence in the region …

PREMIUM: With a booming middle class in Brazil, the subscription-television market is growing rapidly, but capacity on cable and DTH platforms had become almost impossible to come by, Alberto Pecegueiro, the CEO of Globosat, the country’s dominant pay-TV channel operator, tells World Screen Newsflash in this exclusive interview.   WS: …

SÃO PAULO: Through a deal with the French Caribbean satellite provider CanalSat Caraïbes, TV Globo Internacional has grown its footprint to cover Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic, French Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The expanded partnership means that Globo is now present in the three remaining territories where it …

LIMA: Enfoca Inversiones, one of the main investments groups in Peru, has acquired a stake in Compañía Latinoamericana de Radiodifusión, the owner of broadcaster Frecuencia Latina. Enfoca Inversiones and Baruch Ivcher, the chairman of the board of Frecuencia Latina, will jointly control the company. With the transaction, Ivcher stated that …

NEW YORK: The July/August digital editions of the Spanish-language TV Latina and the Portuguese-language TV Brasil are now available, featuring interviews with Turner Broadcasting’s Juan Carlos Urdaneta and Globosat’s Alberto Pecegueiro, among many others. The TEPAL, ABTA and Andina Link Centroamérica edition of TV Latina features a special report on the top cable …

CARACAS: The Miss Venezuela pageant is going to be presented live in HD across Latin America by DIRECTV, following a deal with Venevision. This year marks the second time the beauty pageant will be broadcast live in high-definition exclusively for DIRECTV HD subscribers in Latin America. Miss Venezuela is scheduled …

MIAMI: Adding to its existing broadcast deals with several Mexican football teams, Univision Deportes has clinched an agreement for games involving Chivas de Guadalajara. The multi-year deal begins July 2013 and includes all languages and platforms. It covers Chivas’s Liga MX and Copa Mexico matches, as well as its worldwide …

MIAMI/SANTIAGO: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has clinched a deal to launch Comedy Central Latin America on VTR in Chile. The channel, first introduced to the region a few months ago, will premiere on the Chilean cable operator tomorrow, delivering imports such as Mr. Sunshine, Married With Children and The …

PREMIUM: MundoFOX, a general-entertainment Spanish-language channel for the U.S. Hispanic market, launched this week. Hernán López, the president and CEO of Fox International Channels, talks about the network’s unique program schedule that targets Hispanics who may be dissatisfied with what’s available on competing channels. WS: What is the programming strategy …

BUENOS AIRES: Michelle Wasserman has exited her position as the head of international business, programming, formats and production services at Telefe International. Wasserman has been with Telefe for more than a decade. She says that she plans to "take on new challenges within the media." Telefe issued a statement on …