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NEW YORK: Univision Communications has appointed Dan Murphy as senior VP of audience measurement and analytics and Kevin King as senior VP of digital research. Working alongside Ceril Shagrin, Univision’s executive VP of audience measurement and analytics, Murphy will supervise the company’s third-party industry relationships and experiments. For the last several …

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has announced a new law mandating that foreign-language series and movies broadcast in the country be dubbed into Spanish. Decree No. 933 requires that series and movies be dubbed into "neutral" Spanish and failure to comply will result in fines for the broadcaster. Those …

SÃO PAULO: The 2013 ABTA Expo & Conference, taking place in São Paulo, Brazil, August 6 to 8, has unveiled some highlights of its international speaker lineup, including executives from Liberty Global, Argentina’s Cablevisión and PwC. Carlos Moltini, the CEO of Cablevisión, will share his perspectives on the Argentine pay-TV market. …

CARACAS: A reality series that goes behind the scenes of the Miss Venezuela pageant will air on Sony Entertainment Television across Latin America as well as on the Univision network in the U.S. following its premiere on Venevision. Miss Venezuela, Todo Por La Corona (Miss Venezuela, All For The Crown) …

MIAMI: Fred Medina, executive VP and managing director of BBC Worldwide Latin America/U.S. Hispanic, has announced his new senior management team operating out of the company’s Miami offices. New to the operation are Karen Harrison as VP of finance; Alejandra Olea as VP of integrated sales, operating across channel distribution, program …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications has promoted Sarah Madigan to the newly created position of executive VP of content distribution, based in the company’s New York headquarters. Madigan has been with the company since 2011, most recently serving as the senior VP of business affairs. In her new role, Madigan reports to Tonia …

MIAMI: Later this month Discovery en Español is scheduled to air El Asesinato de Villa: La Conspiración, a documentary focused on Francisco "Pancho" Villa, an infamous Mexican general who was assassinated 90 years ago. Directed by Emilio Maillé, El Asesinato de Villa: La Conspiración chronicles the events leading up to July …

SAN FRANCISCO: The international OTT service Viki is making a major push in Latin America, where it is launching a Spanish-language site. Viki’s viewership has tripled in the last year in Latin America, a territory that now accounts for more than a quarter of its global audience. To support the …

SÃO PAULO: Brazil’s Minister of Communications, Paulo Bernardo, will open the 2013 edition of ABTA, which is being held from August 6 to 8 at São Paulo’s Transamérica Expo Center.   Bernardo will be accompanied by the director-general of the Brazilian Pay-TV Association (Associação Brasileira de TV por Assinatura—ABTA), Oscar …

BUENOS AIRES: FOX International Channels (FIC) has created a new position within its Latin American team that will work to fight against illegal pay-TV connections, tapping Daniel Steinmetz as the chief anti-piracy officer. Steinmetz will be working on the development, implementation and evaluation of the company’s plans to combat pay-TV piracy …