Warner Bros. Discovery Americas Explained

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America
Type:	Division
Industry:	Entertainment
Products:	Entertainment
Parent:	Warner Bros. Discovery International
Subsid:	Redknot (50%) Ole Distribution (50%)
Website:	https://latamwbd.com

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America is a company managing a collection of pay television networks and other services in Latin America.^[1]

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".

Operating channels

Media channels

Kids & Family Group

• Cartoon Network
• Cartoonito
• Discovery Kids
• Tooncast

Entertainment Group

• Adult Swim
• TCM
• TNT
• TNT Novelas
• TNT Series
• Warner TV
• Argentinean channels
  • • • • • HTV Space TNT Sports

Factual & Lifestyle Group

• Animal Planet
• Discovery Channel
• Discovery Familia
• Discovery Home & Health
• Discovery Science
• Discovery Theater
• Discovery Turbo
• Discovery World
• Food Network
• HGTV
• Investigation Discovery
• TLC

Other assets

• Discovery+ (Only in Brazil)
• Max
• Ole Distribution (50%, joint venture with Ole Communications)
• Raze^[2]
• Redknot (joint venture with Nelvana)^[3]

Argentina

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.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Former channels

Closed

• 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

• Chilevisión (sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021)
• Mega Media (27.5% with Bethia,^[8])
  • Mega
  • Mega 2
  • Mega Ficción^[9]
  • Mega Plus^[10]
  • ETC
• Particular Crowd^[11] (spun-off in 2023)
• Golf Channel

See also

• Ole Distribution

Notes and References

1. News: Reuters . 1993-03-09 . Europe Plan By Turner . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-12 . 0362-4331.
2. Web site: RAZE. June 12, 2022. June 12, 2022. https://archive.today/20220612182811/https://raze.tv/. live.
3. Web site: Redknot. June 18, 2022.
4. News: 16 February 2011 . Turner International Argentina nombra a Bernardo Benedit director ejecutivo de ventas publicitarias . es . Real TV News Online . dead . 17 April 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004042233/http://www.realtvnews.com.ar/new/destacados.php?id=5062 . 4 October 2011.
5. News: Mark Farrell . 5 October 2007 . Turner Completes Claxson Deal . Multichannel . 3 March 2019.
6. Web site: NATPKE 2010 Buyers List . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110910080842/http://natpemarket.com/pdf/2010/N10_Buyers_Country_LastName.pdf . 10 September 2011 . 17 April 2011.
7. News: 27 October 2017 . Turner Internacional Argentina impactó con su Upfront 2017 . es . Todos TV News . 3 March 2019.
8. Web site: Plant. I.. De la Maza. M.. Grupo Discovery adquiere el 27,5% de Mega en cerca de $ 40 mil millones. La Tercera. June 1, 2016. June 3, 2022.
9. Web site: De Vicenzi. Pamela. "Mega Ficción", el nuevo canal de Mega que emitirá teleseries y producciones nacionales. ADN Radio. March 30, 2022. June 3, 2022.
10. Web site: Muñoz. Ariela. Mega lanzará un segundo canal de televisión dentro de los próximos meses. Bio Bio Chile. October 29, 2018. June 3, 2022.
11. Web site: Particular Crowd. May 23, 2022. June 12, 2022. https://archive.today/20220612183045/https://www.particularcrowd.com/. live.