Azteca Now (stylized: azteca Now) is a free-
over-the-top streaming
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content i ...
service owned by Icaro Media Group and operated by
TV Azteca
TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nation ...
,
was released on August 10, 2021, exclusively in several
Latin American countries, Canada
and well as several European countries.
The platform was only released for
Android and
iOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...
, Includes a catalog of Original series, Telenovelas (from TV Azteca) as well as Movies from the
Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema ( es, Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano) is a period in the history of the Cinema of Mexico between 1930 and 1969 when the Mexican film industry reached high levels of production, quality and economic success of its ...
, Original movies
Lifestyle programs and including
adn40 news programming. On November 16, 2022, it was launched for the Mexican market to compete mainly against TelevisaUnivision's Vix.
History
At the beginning of 2021, TV Azteca would announce the launch of its
streaming-platform in collaboration with the New York-based company Icaro Media Group to compete against
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
's
Blim TV,
was officially launched on August 10, 2021 for both Latin America and Canada with which they would have a total coverage of 100 million people, in September they would expand to the European market being specifically Germany, Spain and Portugal
On November 15, 2022, the launch of Azteca Now in Mexico was announced through the TV Azteca pay television channels, on November 16 it would be officially released for Android and iOS, it was launched mainly since the launch of
Vix by
TelevisaUnivision
TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in New York and Mexico City, which owns the American Spanish language broadcast network Univision. 45% of the company is held by the ...
.
Programming
Telenovelas
Series
Movies
See also
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Vix+
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Blim TV
References
External links
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{{VOD services
TV Azteca
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Entertainment companies established in 2021
Internet properties established in 2021
Mass media companies established in 2021
Mexican entertainment websites
Recommender systems
Video on demand services
Internet television streaming services
Video rental services
Mexican companies established in 2021
American companies established in 2021