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
Predecessors
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 Raze [4]
Redknot (50% with Nelvana) [5]
Ole Distribution (50% with Ole Communications)
Website https://latamwbd.com

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America (doing business as Warner Bros. Discovery Americas) is a company managing a collection of pay television networks and other services in Latin America. [6]

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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".

Final logo as WarnerMedia Latin America until April 8, 2022 WarnerMedia Latin America logo.svg
Final logo as WarnerMedia Latin America until April 8, 2022

Operating channels

Kids & Family Group

Entertainment Group

Factual & Lifestyle Group

Sports

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 assets

Closed

Divested

See also

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