SKY LATIN AMERICA.SKY LATIN AMERICA SKY Latin America refers to two closely related pay-TV providers, one based in Mexico, the other in Brazil. The Mexican company was founded in mid-1996, a joint venture between British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), News Corporation, Liberty Media and Grupo Televisa. , a pan-regional satellite television company, is partnering with Telecom Argentina Telecom Argentina S.A. (NYSE: TEO, Buenos Aires Stock Exchange:TECO2) is the major local telephone company for the northern part of Argentina, including half of the city of Buenos Aires. Briefly known as Sociedad Licenciataria Norte S.A. to bring direct-to-home satellite television service to Argentina The two companies plan to spend at least US$120 million to launch a joint venture called Sky Argentina. The new company will build a broadcast center and hire 180 people over the next year to transmit To send data over a communications line. See transfer. programming to Argentina and send local TV shows to the rest of the region. Argentina has the highest cable TV penetration in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Sky has 614,000 subscribers in the region. |
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