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Televisa eyes Megacable merger

Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa is offering to merge its cable and broadband unit Izzi with smaller rival Megacable, according to Reuters. A stock-for-stock deal would result in Megacable’s shareholders owning about 45 per cent of the merged company with Televisa at about 55 per cent. Televisa would also offer Megacable shareholders a 14.8 billion peso […]

December 13, 2022By Colin Mann

izzi taps Verimatrix XTD and Streamkeeper

Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the modern connected world with people-centred security, has announced that izzi , a Mexican telecommunications firm that offers the country’s popular izzi tv and izzi go services, is set to build upon its existing use of Verimatrix content protection and anti-piracy solutions with the addition of Streamkeeper as well as Extended Threat Defense (XTD) technologies […]

June 30, 2022

Vubiquity renews izzi deal

Content services and media technology solutions provider Vubiquity has confirmed a multi-year renewal agreement with Mexican cable TV operator izzi. As part of this agreement, Vubiquity will continue to provide content licensing and processing for the izzitv service. Vubiquity holds relationships with hundreds of content creators and distributors around the globe, bringing the latest release […]

September 13, 2021

Mirada, izzi bring Disney+ to Mexico

Mirada, a provider of integrated software solutions for digital TV operators and broadcasters, has announced the integration of Disney+ into its Iris multiscreen product, and its successful deployment across Televisa’s izzi pay TV platform. This integration is the result of a collaboration between izzi, Disney and Mirada, enabling the arrival of Disney+ in Mexico as […]

November 19, 2020

Mexico: izzi uses Edgeware for live OTT subtitling

Edgeware has announced that izzi, Mexico’s largest cable TV operator, will expand its existing Edgeware TV CDN platform with the addition of new OCR subtitling features for its izzi TV service. This will enable them to add Spanish subtitles on the fly across 75 channels, ensuring full support for accurately displayed subtitles on all devices […]

October 27, 2020

Mirada launches new Android TV solution for izzi

Mirada, a provider of integrated software solutions for Digital TV operators and broadcasters, has announced the commercial launch of its Android TV Operator Tier with custom launcher for Mexican operator, izzi. This is expected to be one of the most relevant deployments of Android TV worldwide, resulting from a close collaboration between izzi, Google and […]

October 26, 2020