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Broadcast area | Latin America |
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Headquarters | Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico Peru |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish Portuguese (only in Brazil) English (as an optional audio track) |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
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History | |
Launched | 1 April 1993 1 April 2022 (Brazil) |
Links | |
Website | foxplay |
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