Warner Bros. Discovery Americas

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America is a company managing a collection of pay television networks and other services in Latin America.^[4]

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America

Formerly	Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (1993–2020) WarnerMedia Latin America (2020–2022)
Type	Division
Industry	Entertainment
Predecessor	HBO Latin America Group (1991–2020) Discovery Latin America (1994–2022)
Founded	March 9, 1993; 30 years ago (1993-03-09)
Founder	Ted Turner John S. Hendricks
Headquarters	Miami, United States Bogotá, Colombia Buenos Aires, Argentina Mexico City, Mexico Santiago, Chile São Paulo, Brazil
Area served	Latin America Canada United States
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)
Products	Entertainment
Services	Production Distribution
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery
Parent	Warner Bros. Discovery International
Divisions	Imagen Satelital S.A. Warner Bros. Discovery Chile^[3]
Subsidiaries	Redknot (50%)
Website	https://latamwbd.com

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).

Former logo as WarnerMedia Latin America

Operating channels

Media channels

Kids & Family Group

• Cartoon Network
• Cartoonito
• Adult Swim
• Discovery Kids
• Tooncast

Entertainment Group

• TNT
• TNT Novelas
• TNT Series
• TCM
• Warner TV
• Discovery Channel^[5]
• Animal Planet
• Discovery Science
• Argentinean channels
  • I-SAT
  • Space
  • HTV
  • MuchMusic
  • Glitz (joint venture with Cisneros Media)
  • TNT Sports

Factual & Lifestyle Group

• Food Network
• HGTV
• Investigation Discovery
• TLC
• Discovery Home & Health
• Discovery Turbo
• Discovery World
• Discovery Theater

Other assets

• Raze^[6]
• Redknot (joint venture with Nelvana)^[7]
• HBO Max
• Discovery+

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.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Former channels

Closed

• Retro (replaced by TCM or TruTV, depending on the cable provider, on April 1, 2009)
• Infinito (replaced by TNT Series on March 10, 2015)
• Discovery Civilization (replaced by HGTV in Brazil on November 5, 2019, and January 3, 2022 in Latin America)
• Boomerang (replaced by Cartoonito on December 1, 2021)
• TBS (replaced by TNT Novelas on June 26, 2023)
• TruTV (replaced by Adult Swim on October 31, 2023)

Divested

• Chilevisión (sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021)
• Mega Media (27.5% with Bethia,^[12])
  • Mega
  • Mega 2
  • Mega Ficción^[13]
  • Mega Plus^[14]
  • ETC
• Particular Crowd^[15] (spun-off in 2023)

See also

• Ole Distribution

References

1. Middleton, Richard (April 21, 2022). "Warner Bros. Discovery names int'l team, as Priya Dogra, James Gibbons & Anil Jhingan take new roles". TBI Vision. Retrieved May 29, 2022.
2. "Warner Bros Discovery anuncia su nueva estructura gerencial para LatAm y EEUU Hispano". Todo TV News. June 2, 2022. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
3. "Gustavo Minaker es nombrado Country Manager para Chile de Warner Bros. Discovery". WM for Brands Latin America. July 9, 2022. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
4. "Europe Plan By Turner". The New York Times. Reuters. 1993-03-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
5. http://www.press.discovery.com/Templates/SinglePageInformation.cfm?nav=5&PressType=4^{[dead link]}
6. "RAZE". Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
7. "Redknot". Retrieved June 18, 2022.
8. (in Spanish). Real TV News Online. 16 February 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
9. Mark Farrell (5 October 2007). "Turner Completes Claxson Deal". Multichannel. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
10. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
11. "Turner Internacional Argentina impactó con su Upfront 2017" (in Spanish). Todos TV News. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
12. Plant, I.; De la Maza, M. (June 1, 2016). "Grupo Discovery adquiere el 27,5% de Mega en cerca de $ 40 mil millones". La Tercera. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
13. De Vicenzi, Pamela (March 30, 2022). ""Mega Ficción", el nuevo canal de Mega que emitirá teleseries y producciones nacionales". ADN Radio. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
14. Muñoz, Ariela (October 29, 2018). "Mega lanzará un segundo canal de televisión dentro de los próximos meses". Bio Bio Chile. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
15. "Particular Crowd". Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022.

External links

• Official website