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Entertainment media company
Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America
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Formerly
| - Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (1993?2020)
- WarnerMedia Latin America (2020?2022)
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Company type
| Division
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Industry
| Entertainment
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Predecessor
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Founded
| March 9, 1993
; 31 years ago
(
1993-03-09
)
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Founder
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Headquarters
| - Miami, United States
- Bogota, Colombia
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Santiago, Chile
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Area served
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Key people
| - Fernando Medin
(
president
)
[1]
- Tomas Yankelevich (Lifestyle, factual and entertainment
director
)
[2]
- Pablo Zuccarino (kids & family director)
- Vera Buzanello (head of revenue; country manager, Brazil)
- Felipe de Stefani (country manager, Argentina)
- Gustavo Minaker (country manager, Chile)
- Patricia Jasin (country manager, Colombia)
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Products
| Entertainment
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Services
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Parent
| Warner Bros. Discovery International
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Divisions
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Subsidiaries
| Redknot (50%)
Ole Distribution
(50%)
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Website
| https://latamwbd.com
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Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America
is a company managing a collection of
pay television
networks
and other services in
Latin America
.
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The company was created in April 2022, bringing together
WarnerMedia Latin America
(founded in 1993 as
Turner Broadcasting System Latin America
), and
Discovery Latin America
(founded on August 1, 1994).
Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America, offers "a portfolio of channels, led by Discovery Channel and others networks, that are distributed in every pay TV market in the Latin America". The division offers 22 channels in two languages (Spanish and Portuguese for Brazil) with "channel feeds customized according needs of advertising and sales opportunities".
Former logo as WarnerMedia Latin America
Operating channels
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Media channels
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Kids & Family Group
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Entertainment Group
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Factual & Lifestyle Group
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Other assets
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Argentina
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Imagen Satelital S.A.
(formerly
Turner Internacional Argentina
), is an
Argentine
commercial broadcasting company headquartered in
Buenos Aires
and founded in 1990. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Americas. The company was bought by Claxson Interactive Group in 1997, which later sold the group to Turner Broadcasting System in 2007.
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Former channels
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Closed
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- Retro
(replaced by TCM or TruTV, depending on the cable provider, on April 1, 2009)
- Infinito
(replaced by
TNT Series
on March 10, 2015)
- Discovery Civilization
(replaced by HGTV in Brazil on November 5, 2019, and January 3, 2022 in Latin America)
- Boomerang
(replaced by Cartoonito on December 1, 2021)
- TBS
(replaced by TNT Novelas on June 26, 2023)
- TruTV
(replaced by Adult Swim on October 31, 2023)
- Glitz
(joint venture with
Cisneros Media
) (closed on February 29, 2024)
- I.Sat
(closed on February 29, 2024)
- MuchMusic
(closed on February 29, 2024)
Divested
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See also
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References
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Middleton, Richard (April 21, 2022).
"Warner Bros. Discovery names int'l team, as Priya Dogra, James Gibbons & Anil Jhingan take new roles"
. TBI Vision
. Retrieved
May 29,
2022
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"Warner Bros Discovery anuncia su nueva estructura gerencial para LatAm y EEUU Hispano"
. Todo TV News. June 2, 2022
. Retrieved
June 3,
2022
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"Gustavo Minaker es nombrado Country Manager para Chile de Warner Bros. Discovery"
. WM for Brands Latin America. July 9, 2022.
Archived
from the original on June 12, 2022
. Retrieved
June 12,
2022
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"Europe Plan By Turner"
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The New York Times
. Reuters. 1993-03-09.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2022-04-12
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"RAZE"
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Archived
from the original on June 12, 2022
. Retrieved
June 12,
2022
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"Redknot"
. Retrieved
June 18,
2022
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"Turner International Argentina nombra a Bernardo Benedit director ejecutivo de ventas publicitarias"
(in Spanish). Real TV News Online. 16 February 2011. Archived from
the original
on 4 October 2011
. Retrieved
17 April
2011
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Mark Farrell (5 October 2007).
"Turner Completes Claxson Deal"
. Multichannel
. Retrieved
3 March
2019
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"NATPKE 2010 Buyers List"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 10 September 2011
. Retrieved
17 April
2011
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"Turner Internacional Argentina impacto con su Upfront 2017"
(in Spanish). Todos TV News. 27 October 2017
. Retrieved
3 March
2019
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Plant, I.; De la Maza, M. (June 1, 2016).
"Grupo Discovery adquiere el 27,5% de Mega en cerca de $ 40 mil millones"
.
La Tercera
. Retrieved
June 3,
2022
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De Vicenzi, Pamela (March 30, 2022).
"
"Mega Ficcion", el nuevo canal de Mega que emitira teleseries y producciones nacionales"
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ADN Radio
. Retrieved
June 3,
2022
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Munoz, Ariela (October 29, 2018).
"Mega lanzara un segundo canal de television dentro de los proximos meses"
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Bio Bio Chile
. Retrieved
June 3,
2022
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"Particular Crowd"
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Archived
from the original on June 12, 2022
. Retrieved
May 23,
2022
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External links
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Canada
JV
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Latin America, the Caribbean and Brazil
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Executives
| Board of directors
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Senior management
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Warner Bros.
Entertainment
| Warner Bros.
Motion Picture Group
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Warner Bros.
Television Group
| United States
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International
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Other units
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U.S. linear networks
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Home Box Office
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CNN Worldwide
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TNT Sports
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Global Streaming
& Interactive
Entertainment
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Global Brands and
Experiences
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International
Networks
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| Canada
JV
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Latin America, the Caribbean and Brazil
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| Pan-Asia
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East Asia
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South Asia
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Southeast Asia
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Australasia
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Online
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Defunct
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| France, Belgium & Switzerland
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Germany
, Benelux & CEE
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Italy
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Scandinavia
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Iberia
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UK & Ireland
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Turkey
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Middle East & Africa
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Defunct
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| TV channels
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FAST channels
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Online services
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Other assets
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Former units
| from WB
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from
Turner
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from HBO
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from
Discovery
& Scripps
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See also
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