Warner Bros. Discovery Americas

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Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America
Formerly
  • Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (1993–2020)
  • WarnerMedia Latin America (2020–2022)
Company type Division
Industry Entertainment
Predecessor
FoundedMarch 9, 1993;31 years ago (1993-03-09)
Founder
Headquarters
  • Miami, United States
  • Bogotá, Colombia
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Santiago, Chile
  • São Paulo, Brazil
Area served
Key people
  • Fernando Medin
    (President) [1]
  • Tomás 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)
ProductsEntertainment
Services
  • Production
  • Distribution
Parent Warner Bros. Discovery International
Divisions
Subsidiaries 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. [4]

Contents

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).

Former logo as WarnerMedia Latin America WarnerMedia Latin America logo.svg
Former logo as WarnerMedia Latin America

Operating channels

Media channels

Kids & Family Group

Entertainment Group

Factual & Lifestyle Group

Other assets

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. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Former channels

Closed

Divested

See also

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