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Mediablocks and partners celebrate success in Streaming Copa America 2024 for Televen 

Mediablocks, a leading integrator in Latin America´s streaming industry, has announced the success of its recent deployment for Televen, one of Venezuela’s largest broadcasters, in delivering the highly anticipated Copa América 2024 football tournament to Venezuelan audiences. The Copa America 2024 project was the first major test of Televen’s new Televen Stream service, following their […]

September 9, 2024

Venezuela offers free DTH

Venezuela’s government is broadcasting 27 national and international TV channels (and 10 radio services) on a free-to-view DTH service. Conatel, the nation’s National telecommunications Commission, announced the project and described it as “the new way of watching television”. However, although content viewing will be completely free, users must buy a Set Top Box converter ($29) […]

November 22, 2021By Chris Forrester

Venezuela arrests 3 DirecTV execs

Venezuelan authorities have jailed three local DirecTV executives under an arrest warrant issued after the Dallas-based company abruptly cut off services to the South American country last month, citing US sanctions against the socialist government, the men’s lawyer said Friday and reported by Associated Press. Carlos Villamizar, one of the three men, told reporters in […]

June 8, 2020By Chris Forrester