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Broadcast area | Latin America |
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Network | Comedy Central |
Headquarters | Miami Beach, Florida |
Programming | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Paramount Networks Americas |
Sister channels | MTV Latin America MTV Brazil Nickelodeon Latin America Nickelodeon Brazil Paramount Network (Latin America) Paramount Network Brazil Telefe |
History | |
Launched | 1 February 2012 [1] |
Links | |
Website | comedycentral (Latin America) comedycentral (Brazil) |
Comedy Central is a Latin American pay television channel, owned by Paramount Networks Americas. It was launched on 1 February 2012. [1]
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Before Comedy Central was launched in Latin America MTV and VH1 aired Comedy Central programming back in the 2000s to 2012, like South Park or Drawn Together . [2] [3]
The channel was launched on 1 February 2012 by Viacom International Media Networks The Americas [4] and its website was launched on 11 November 2011, two months before the official start of the channel. [5]
On 26 February 2019, U.S. network rebranded its logo and graphic package, adapting to the new redesign launched two months ago in the United States. [6]
Since 6 June 2024, the channel is managed and transferred to Europe by the hand of Paramount Networks EMEAA [7]
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