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published:
15-May-08
territories:
Mexico - South and Central America
Televisa getting bigger in the Mexican Pay TV market
Mexican national broadcaster Televisa has been cleared by Mexico's competition agency CFC to acquire a 49 per cent stake in cable company Cablemas. The CFC said that in return, Televisa must offer its free-to-air channels to rival cable companies for a set fee, and its pay TV systems must carry competitors' channels. In 2007, Televisa gave Cablemas a $258 million loan with the option of converting the notes into a 49% stake.
Televisa is the biggest media conglomerate in Latin America and the largest of the two national broadcasters in Mexico, the other being TV Azteca. In the pay TV market, Televisa already holds 59 per cent in Sky Mexico, the only satellite operator in the country, and 51 per cent in Cablevision, the third largest cable TV operator. The acquisition of Cablemas, the second-largest cable operator in Mexico, means that Televisa will control almost half of the total Mexican pay TV market with three million subscribers. Through its cable companies, Televisa will compete in the triple-play market offering telephony and broadband internet.
Our take...
The reason for the CFC requirement is that in the past, Televisa did not allow the now-defunct satellite operator Directv to carry its free to air channels. One of these, Canal de las Estrellas, is one of the most popular Mexican channels.
With a 40 per cent stake in Spanish commercial channel la Sexta, Televisa is also reported to be interested in buying Spanish satellite operator Digital Plus from Prisa.
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HDTV 2008: Global uptake, strategies and business model...
This new HD report focuses on business models, costs and benefits derived from HD services, notably from a pay TV operator perspective. The report is mostly centred on broadcast HDTV and pay HDTV across all platforms (satellite, terrestrial, cable, IPTV) but it is also looking at the overall migration to HD in all audiovisual services and devices (displays, set-top boxes, online HD, hi-def video, hi-def gaming, hi-def VOD).
published:
01-Jul-08
territories:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA - Asia-Pacific, Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Nordic Region, North America, Regional Totals
Vincent Létang
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