Slim expand its content offering television - Informador.com.mx

MEXICO CITY (11/ABR/2013.) – While in Mexico Telmex, owned by businessman Carlos Slim Helú has failed modification its license, which gives you entry to the pay TV market, the employer continues its expansion in the TV market and content internationally, Pray TV, Internet TV channel property, bought the producer Stick Figure Productions television, allowing you to expand your range of content, although the terms were not informed of this.

Stick Figure, based in New York, is known for the production of documentaries and reality shows, it is issued on networks such as HBO, PBS and ESPN.

Last Wednesday also announced that DLA, the audiovisual content company Carlos Slim Helú, reached a deal with NBC Universal to integrate the service PictureBox to your platform of video on demand (VOD, for its acronym in English).

This product is marketed in the platforms of network operators in Latin America and Mexico is available via the Internet at Clarovideo brand.

DLA is a subsidiary of América Móvil which is headquartered in Miami with local presence in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.

In July 2012, Ora Tv began broadcasting. The platform would be designed to create a wide range of programs on-demand content themselves transcend traditional formats and can be downloaded or viewed in streaming format televisions with access to the network, computers, tablets and mobile phones.

After the announcement of Ora TV, the channel reported, with studios in New York, would be directed by Jon Housman, who was President of Digital Journalism News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch chain, and currently has the participation American commentator Larry King.

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In Mexico, Telmex could not enter the market for pay-TV, in 2011 the SCT refused to telephone modifying its license.

Meanwhile, Cofetel still pending in the analysis and resolution of the legality of One TV, another channel by Internet entrepreneur Carlos Slim, and sparking controversy in Mexico for the transmission of the Pan American Games.

Companies like Grupo Iusacell and Salinas have accused Telmex before Cofetel phone after arguing that violated its license to broadcast coverage of these games .

Meanwhile, Hector Slim, CEO of Telmex, has defended transmissions to TV One does not say that television signals, but the Internet, “and what is transmitted by the web not regulated. “

In 2011 Carlos Slim amassed 11 million pay TV customers in 16 of the 18 countries in which it operates, making him the leading pay television provider in Latin America. (With information from agencies).