Warner Bros. Discovery Americas

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America (doing business as Warner Bros. Discovery Americas) is a company managing a collection of pay television networks and other services in Latin America.^[6]

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America

Formerly	Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (1993–2020) WarnerMedia Latin America (2020–2022)
Company type	Division
Industry	Entertainment
Predecessors	HBO Latin America Group (1991–2020) Discovery Latin America (1994–2022)
Founded	March 9, 1993; 31 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
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
Parent	Warner Bros. Discovery International
Divisions	Imagen Satelital S.A. Warner Bros. Discovery Chile[3]
Subsidiaries	Raze[4] Redknot (50% with Nelvana)[5] Ole Distribution (50% with Ole Communications)
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).

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^[7] in two languages (Spanish and Portuguese for Brazil) with "channel feeds customized according needs of advertising and sales opportunities".

Final logo as WarnerMedia Latin America until April 8, 2022

Operating channels

Kids & Family Group

• Cartoon Network
• Cartoonito
• Discovery Kids
• Tooncast

Entertainment, Factual & Lifestyle Group

• TNT
  • TNT Novelas
  • TNT Series
  • Adult Swim
  • TCM
  • Space
  • Warner Channel
• Animal Planet
• Discovery Channel
  • Discovery Home & Health
  • Discovery Science
  • Discovery Theater
  • Discovery Turbo
  • Discovery World
• HTV
• Food Network
• HGTV
• Investigation Discovery
• TLC

Sports

• TNT Sports^[8]

Divisions

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.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Former assets

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 closed on 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)
• Glitz (joint venture with Cisneros Media) (closed on February 29, 2024)
• I.Sat (closed on February 29, 2024)
• MuchMusic (closed on February 29, 2024)

Divested

• Chilevisión (sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021)
• Mega Media (27.5% with Bethia^[13])
  • Mega
  • Mega 2
  • Mega Ficción^[14]
  • Mega Plus^[15]
  • ETC
• Particular Crowd^[16] (spun off in 2023)
• Golf Channel

See also

• Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific
• Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
• 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. "RAZE". Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
5. "Redknot". Retrieved June 18, 2022.
6. "Europe Plan By Turner". The New York Times. Reuters. 1993-03-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
7. "TNT Sports cambia de imagen para reforzar su identidad global". Retrieved 25 January 2025.
8. "TNT Sports cambia de imagen para reforzar su identidad global". Retrieved 25 January 2025.
9. "Turner International Argentina nombra a Bernardo Benedit director ejecutivo de ventas publicitarias" (in Spanish). Real TV News Online. 16 February 2011. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
10. Farrell, Mark (5 October 2007). "Turner Completes Claxson Deal". Multichannel. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
11. "NATPKE 2010 Buyers List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
12. "Turner Internacional Argentina impactó con su Upfront 2017" (in Spanish). Todos TV News. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Muñoz, Ariela (October 29, 2018). "Mega lanzará un segundo canal de televisión dentro de los próximos meses". Bio Bio Chile. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
16. "Particular Crowd". Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022.

External links

• Official website