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Funimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese. The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan's Aniplex, already operates…

Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron has lent his voice to a campaign in support of the rights of Mexico's domestic workers amid the coronavirus crisis. Mexico New Daily reports that the "Care For Those Who Care For You" movement, which has the support of the United Nations, advocates that workers continue to be paid during…

Tubi, one of the leading U.S. players in ad-supported streaming, will expand its service into Mexico later this year through a deal with TV Azteca. The expansion comes as the startup also prepares to enter the UK market later this year. TV Azteca, one of the world’s two top producers of Spanish-language television…

EXCLUSIVE: TVCortos, which programs short-form Spanish entertainment, has launched in Mexico via a deal with a top pay-TV provider, Megacable. ShortsTV, a channel dedicated to short movies that is known in the U.S. for, among other things, backing theatrical programs of Oscar-nominated shorts, is the curator of…

SAG-AFTRA and Mexico's performers union have signed what they're calling an "historic cooperative agreement" in which they've pledged to consider joint bargaining in areas of mutual interest. The agreement with the Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA) was announced today at SAG-AFTRA's biennial convention in Los…

A reporter with National Geographic was shot in the leg when an interview in Juárez, Mexico turned violent. The shooting occurred Friday night while the unidentified male journalist was interviewing a suspected drug dealer, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said in a statement on its website. The reporter…

Bruce Beresford-Redman, a former producer on reality series Survivor, has been released from a Mexican prison after spending years behind bars in connection with the death of his wife. The TV producer was convicted in the killing of his wife Mónica Burgos during a family vacation with their two children in 2010. Her…

VidCon, the conference for digital video creators that was acquired by Viacom in 2018, is expanding to Mexico with a four-day edition in April 2020. Mexico City will be the first city in Latin America to host VidCon, the world's largest celebration of online video. The inaugural VidCon Mexico will be held at the…

Stephen Colbert thinks he’s finally figured what happened with President Trump’s tariff showdown with Mexico over illegal immigration. The entire crisis was “fake.” Last week Trump threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods unless our Southern neighbor addressed the crisis at the border by today. The…

President Donald Trump pulled his Twitter trigger aggressively Wednesday morning, hitting a wide swath of targets. TV news outlets had a busy morning, keeping up with Trump as he: -Stomped on his just-announced official state visit to the UK, endorsing an OANN report “United Kingdom Intelligence [helped] Obama…

The Masked Singer is heading south after Mexican broadcaster Televisa set a local version. The singing competition is set to be adapted for the Spanish speaking market with Televisa Studios and Endemol Shine Boomdog licensing the format from South Korea's MBC. It is the latest international format produced by the two…

Mexican regulators have given the final sign-off to Disney’s $73.1 billion merger with the assets of 21st Century Fox, clearing the way for the companies to complete the deal by March 20. The country’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) said Tuesday that during its regular session the day before it unanimously…