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BOGOTÁ: RTI has entered a seven-year production deal with Mexico’s Televisa, and has landed a separate three-year pact with RCN for Colombia. The deal between RTI and Televisa covers more than 500 hours a year of series and telenovelas for the Mexican network. The agreement includes two production lines, one …

LOS ANGELES, July 16: Former Telemundo executive Adriana Ibañez is joining MundoFox, the new U.S. Hispanic broadcast network launching next month, as the executive VP of programming, reporting to president Emiliano Saccone. Ibañez, based in Los Angeles, joins the network—a joint venture of FOX International Channels and RCN—August 1. She will …

MIAMI: Carolina Lightcap, who previously served as the president of Disney Channels Worldwide, has been hired as the head of content for Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic (DLA/USH). Lightcap will also serve as the general manager for the Southern Cone. She takes up the post as of August 13, reporting …

MIAMI: Telemundo Media has entered into a multi-million-dollar partnership with Coca-Cola North America focused on the London 2012 Olympic Games, creating the campaign "Luchando Juntos" (Fighting the Good Fight). The campaign will work to create a connection between Coca-Cola, Hispanic consumers and the Olympics. There will be a spotlight on …

BUENOS AIRES: Telefe International has added two new series, Everything is Possible and Salon Chit Chat, to its programming portfolio. Hosted by Julian Weich, Everything is Possible is a family-friendly emotional entertainment format that features live games, stories and entertainment. Some of the show’s sections are titled “Truth or Vegetable,” …

LONDON/MIAMI: Gareth Williams has been named the VP of programming for Latin American and U.S. Hispanic market at BBC Worldwide Channels. Previously, Williams served as the company’s senior VP of content and production in South America.  As the VP of programming, Williams will be in charge of program strategy, production …

NEW YORK: Claudia Sahab, the director of sales for Europe at Televisa Internacional, tells World Screen about several business areas the company has been ramping up, including its catalogue of teen telenovelas and making co-productions with local European partners.   Sahab says that Televisa’s products have been selling “very well …

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 …