Warner Bros. Discovery Americas

Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America
Formerly
  • Turner Broadcasting System Latin America (1993–2020)
  • WarnerMedia Latin America (2020–2022)
Company typeDivision
IndustryEntertainment
Predecessors
FoundedMarch 9, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-03-09)
Founder
Headquarters
  • Miami, United States
  • Bogotá, Colombia
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Santiago, Chile
  • São Paulo, Brazil
Area served
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)
ProductsEntertainment
Services
  • Production
  • Distribution
ParentWarner Bros. Discovery International
Divisions
SubsidiariesRaze[4]
Redknot (50% with Nelvana)[5]
Ole Distribution (50% with Ole Communications)
Websitehttps://latamwbd.com

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]

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 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
  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.