Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America (
doing business as
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Warner Bros. Discovery Americas) is a company managing a collection of
pay television
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networks and other services in
Latin America
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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 and operates sports in two languages (Spanish and Portuguese for Brazil) with "channel feeds customized according needs of advertising and sales opportunities".
Current assets
Kids & Family Group
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Cartoon Network
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Cartoonito
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Discovery Kids
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Tooncast
Sports
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TNT Sports
Entertainment, Factual & Lifestyle Group
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TNT
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TNT Novelas
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TNT Series
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Adult Swim
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TCM
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Space
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Warner Channel
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Animal Planet
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Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience.
It init ...
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Discovery Home & Health
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Discovery Home & Health is available in Latin America, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Thai ...
** Discovery Science
** Discovery Theater
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Discovery Turbo
** Discovery World
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HTV
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Food Network
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HGTV
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Investigation Discovery
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TLC
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Arts and entertainment Television
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* TLC (TV network), formerly the Learning Channel, an American cable TV network
** TLC (Asia), an A ...
Former assets
Closed
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Retro
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Definition
The term ...
(replaced by TCM or TruTV, depending on the cable provider, on April 1, 2009)
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Infinito (replaced by
TNT Series on March 10, 2015)
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Discovery Civilization
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(replaced by HGTV in Brazil on November 5, 2019, and closed on January 3, 2022, in Latin America)
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Boomerang
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(replaced by Cartoonito on December 1, 2021)
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TBS (replaced by TNT Novelas on June 26, 2023)
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TruTV
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(replaced by Adult Swim on October 31, 2023)
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Glitz (joint venture with
Cisneros Media) (closed on February 29, 2024)
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I.Sat (closed on February 29, 2024)
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MuchMusic
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(closed on February 29, 2024)
Divested
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Chilevisión
Chilevisión (often abbreviated as CHV) is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. It is the third oldest Chilean television network, owned by Paramount Networks Americas, being founded by the University of Chile on November 4, 1960.
Hist ...
(sold to
Paramount Networks Americas
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in 2021)
* Mega Media (27.5% with Bethia)
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Mega
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Mega 2
** Mega Ficción
** Mega Plus
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ETC
* Particular Crowd (spun off in 2023)
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Golf Channel
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Divisions
Imagen Satelital S.A. (formerly Turner Internacional Argentina) is an
Argentine
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commercial broadcasting company headquartered in
Buenos Aires
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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.
See also
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Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
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Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
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Ole Distribution
Ole Distribution is a company which owns several pay television networks in the region of Latin America. The company was founded as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery and Ole Communications.
Distributed channels
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References
External links
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Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries
Mass media companies established in 1993
Mass media companies established in 1994