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MIAMI: Telemundo Network has appointed Mario Ruiz as its senior VP of music and entertainment projects, effective immediately.

NEW YORK: Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) has appointed Eric Ratchman, who previously worked at The Walt Disney Company, as the executive VP of content distribution.

MIAMI: Univision Digital has launched Univision Beta, a new initiative meant to accelerate digital innovation across the organization and expand audience reach through emerging digital and social platforms, with a special focus on news and information.

CANNES: Caracol Internacional’s series The White Slave tells the story of a young woman secretly raised by slaves after her family is killed.

MIAMI: BBC Worldwide has signed a distribution agreement with Grupo Televisa’s new SVOD platform Blim, which will offer its subscribers more than 200 hours of content from the company, including drama, natural history, factual entertainment, science and documentaries.

NEW YORK: U.S. Hispanic media group Univision Communications has renewed its multiyear distribution agreement with cable operator Mediacom Communications.

PARIS: Ronaldo Nazario, a world football champion and sports commentator for Globo Sports in Brazil, is set for a keynote at MIPTV.

Economic woes and market maturity will result in slowing growth for pay-TV revenues and subscribers in Latin America, according to Digital TV Research. Pay-TV revenues are expected to rise by 9 percent between 2015 and 2021.

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has placed the full season of its romantic comedy My Lovely Hope (Esperanza Mía) in Panama and Ecuador.

The OTT/SVOD market in Latin America reached 10.2 million paid accounts in 2015, which means a 60 percent annual growth rate, according to a new study published by Dataxis. The firm estimates the OTT/SVOD category generated $640 million in revenues during the past year.