{"id":3208,"date":"2017-01-12T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvlatina\/bbc-withdrawing-channels-in-latin-america\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T15:41:03","slug":"bbc-withdrawing-channels-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvlatina\/bbc-withdrawing-channels-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Withdrawing Channels in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI: BBC Worldwide is taking three of its flagship channels off the air in Latin America, as it plans to refocus on OTT distribution and licensing in the region.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Entertainment, CBeebies and BBC Earth\u00a0are being withdrawn from LatAm.\u00a0The channels are set to go dark in April. BBC World News, which is managed by BBC Global News, won&#8217;t be affected by the changes.<\/p>\n<p>An official spokesperson for the BBC commented: \u201cThis decision was based on a growing demand for our stellar programming in the market and will allow us to offer our premium content to even broader audiences in the region. We are very grateful to our commercial partners and viewers that have supported us, and now we hope to work with our partners in offering our great brands and content to all platforms in Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CBeebies brand, geared toward preschool audiences, will continue to operate as a linear channel, as an OTT offering and as an app in the U.S. Hispanic market. The CBeebies app will continue to be available in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market.<\/p>\n<p>The move will only affect the Latin American region and will not impact BBC Worldwide\u2019s businesses in the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI: BBC Worldwide is taking three of its flagship channels off the air in Latin America, as it plans to refocus on OTT distribution and licensing in the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide-latin-america"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Withdrawing Channels in Latin America - TVLATINA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvlatina\/bbc-withdrawing-channels-in-latin-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Withdrawing Channels in Latin America - 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