LAPTV (Latin American Pay Television Service) was a
Latin America
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n
pay television
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company founded by many cable providers of the region (
MVS Comunicaciones
Grupo MVS (MVS) is a Mexican media conglomerate. The company owns MASTV, MVS Radio operator of four national radio networks, MVS Televisión operator and distributor of seven pay television networks, E-Go wireless broadband internet and Dis ...
,
Grupo Cisneros) and many cinema producers/distributors (such as
United International Pictures
United International Pictures (UIP) is a joint venture of Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that distributes their films outside the United States and Canada. UIP also had international distribution rights to certain Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M ...
, distributor of Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios). It runs several film and television series channels, such as Cinecanal and Film Zone, and previously Moviecity.
History
LAPTV was formed as a partnership between
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM or MGM Studios) is an American Film production, film and television production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered ...
,
Paramount Pictures
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, and
Fox in Latin America
in 1993
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* Universal Studios, Inc., an American media and entertainment conglomerate
** Universal Pictures, an American film studio
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joining later. On May 22, 2012, Fox International Channels acquired MGM's stake in LAP TV. In March 2013, Fox purchased Paramount's position in the company, thus becoming the sole owner of LAP TV, and sign a content agreement with LAP TV.[
Starting on November 3, 2014, all the Premium channels of the pack were rebranded as "Fox+", dropping the "Movie City" brand definitely, and consolidating the Fox brand in LAPTV with the operations in Fox International Channels. Operations of Cinecanal and Film Zone were unaffected.
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Channels
Basic-tier channels
* Cinecanal (1993–present): Mix of new releases and slightly older films, also shows films previously shown on Moviecity/Fox+ and before any other basic-tier pay-TV channel. Before 2010 it was part of the premium-labelled networks of the company.
Defunct Brands
*Film Zone (1999-2017): Offered 3 independent films from the Sundance Channel
References
External links
* (Defunct, redirects to Fox International Channels Latin America website)
Official Site
Television stations in the United States
Fox Networks Group
The Walt Disney Company subsidiaries
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