Azteca Now

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azteca Now
AztecaNow Logo2.jpg
Type of site
OTT video streaming platform
Available inSpanish
Headquarters New York City,
U.S.
Area served
  • Canada
  • United States
  • Latin America
  • Europe
Owner
Products
Services
URL aztecanow.com
LaunchedAugust 10, 2021 (2021-08-10) [2]
Current statusOperating

Azteca Now (stylized: azteca Now) is a free-over-the-top streaming service owned by Icaro Media Group and operated by TV Azteca, [1] was released on August 10, 2021, exclusively in several Latin American countries, United States, Canada [2] and well as several European countries. [3]

Contents

The platform was only released for Android and iOS, [4] Includes a catalog of Original series, Telenovelas (from TV Azteca) as well as Movies from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Original movies [1] Lifestyle programs and including adn40 news programming. [5] On November 16, 2022, it was launched for the Mexican market to compete mainly against TelevisaUnivision's Vix, [6] and in the US market on January 17, 2023. [7]

History

At the beginning of 2021, TV Azteca would announce the launch of its streaming-platform in collaboration with the New York-based company Icaro Media Group [8] to compete against Televisa's Blim TV, [1] [9] [10] was officially launched on August 10, 2021 [11] for both Latin America and Canada with which they would have a total coverage of 100 million people, [12] [13] in September they would expand to the European market being specifically Germany, Spain and Portugal [3] [14] On November 15, 2022, the launch of Azteca Now in Mexico was announced through the TV Azteca pay television channels, on November 16 it would be officially released for Android and iOS, it was launched mainly since the launch of Vix by TelevisaUnivision. [15] [16] on January 17, 2023 it was launched in the US market for the Hispanic market. [7]

Programming

Telenovelas

TitleGenreEpisodes
Destino [17] Drama 105
Hombre tenías que ser [17] Drama
Romance
105
Los Rey [17] Drama
Romance
125
La otra cara del alma [17] Drama130
Tanto amor [17] Drama
Romance
120

Series

TitleGenreEpisodes
Lucho en familia [17] Drama
Romance
Wrestling
Drenaje profundo [17] Thriller
Crime
Science fiction
20
Demencia [17] Thriller
Horror
Lo que la gente cuenta [17] Thriller158

Movies

TitleGenreActors
El gavilán polleroRomance Pedro Infante
Ana María Villaseñor
Antonio Badú
La amargura de mi razaDrama
Romance
Andrés García
Yolanda Liévana  [ es ]
Alicia Encinas
La hija del ministroRomance Luis Aguilar
Rosita Arenas
Víctor Parra
Águila o Sol [17] Cantinflas
Manuel Medel
Margarita Mora

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