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MEXICO CITY: Televisa Networks has reached an agreement with MGM to renew its license for the James Bond film catalogue, including the latest installment, Skyfall. Golden in Latin America has licensed Skyfall‘s pay-TV window for the region. The network has also renewed its basic cable license for all 22 of the …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications has brought in Mehul Nagrani to serve as its senior VP of digital operations, a newly created role. Nagrani will be responsible for maintaining Univision’s digital performance and financial goals. He will collaborate with department heads to help upgrade capabilities, improve operating vigor and meet the …

ISTANBUL: Three new telenovelas headline the slate that Azteca brings to this year’s DISCOP West Asia: The Kings, La Otra Cara del Alma and The Lieutenant. “Each of the stories in our new titles is very well written and has been excellently produced,” says Martha Contreras, the sales director for …

MIAMI: Comedy Central Latin America, which first launched in the region last year, is slated to premiere on Claro TV in Peru. Programming on Comedy Central Latin America includes such series as Happily Divorced, Men at Work and The Exes, which star Fran Drescher, Danny Masterson and Kristen Johnson, respectively. The …

NEW YORK: Alexandre Raposo, the president of Record, talks to TV Latina about the company’s 60-year legacy of providing news, novelas, series and sports programming for Brazilian and global audiences. TV LATINA: Brazilian television is gearing up for some big sporting events in the next few years, such as the …

MIAMI: ABC and Univision have formed a joint-venture channel for U.S. Hispanics called Fusion, which will focus on news and lifestyle content. At launch, Fusion will be available in millions of U.S. households through platforms such as Cablevision, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse and Google Fiber. The programming will focus on …

NEW YORK: The February/March digital edition of TV Latina for Andina Link is now available, featuring a special report on the top pay-TV programmers in Latin America, as well as interviews with Turner Broadcasting System Latin America’s Rick Pérez and HBO Latin America Networks’ Gustavo Grossman, among others. The digital …

MIAMI: Telemundo Media has hired Jesús Torres Viera as executive VP of programming and content and Daniel Cubillo as VP of content development for non-scripted, a newly created role. Torres Viera will work under Emilio Romano, the president of Telemundo Media. As the executive VP of programming and content, he will …

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s government is said to be proposing a new bill that would potentially break up its telecom and broadcast monopolies. The bill, expected to be presented to Congress today, would create a new independent regulator that could designate firms as "dominant," and could possibly break up companies to …

NEW YORK: A slew of new and returning sponsors have been announced for the seventh season of Univision’s Nuestra Belleza Latina, a reality beauty competition hosted by Giselle Blondet. Brands such as AT&T, Colgate Optic White, jcpenney, GARNIER Fructis, Maybelline New York, SUBWAY restaurants and first-time sponsor Kia Motors America …