Rumors that channels like Disney XD, Nat Geo, NatGeo Wild, NatGeo Kids, FX, Movies and Star Life will stop broadcasting across Latin America at 00:00 on April 1st are not new. Although some media outlets have repeated the information today, the truth is that the announcement has been made for several months, accompanied by quotes to media outlets such as Xataca and even Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek.
According to the communications arm of SECNewgate, those who work directly with Disney Latin America have commented today to ENTER.CO that the decision to phase out the legacy Latin American channels at the start of the new quarter of 2022 has not yet been made, a company official confirmed. For this reason, all that remains is to wait for the dawn of April to confirm it.
The removal of these channels from pay-tv would be in line with an apparent Disney strategy to get the Latin American public to subscribe to the Star Plus and Disney Plus platforms in order to continue consuming the productions normally found on TV channels. In addition, Xataka, the aforementioned medium, also announced at the time that Star Life would prepare a “rebrand” for the same date.
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Along with Disney XD, NatGeo Wild, NatGeo Kids, Star Life and FX Movies will also cease broadcasting on LATAM 🌍 at 00:00 today.
All programs are distributed on Disney Channel, Disney Junior, NatGeo, FX, Star Channel and streaming platforms (Disney + and Star +) 📺 pic.twitter.com/mQYeLY4xHG
— MUSICTRENDS Colombia (@musictrendscol) March 31, 2022
The Disney+ streaming service arrived in Latin America on November 12, 2019 and since then has managed to attract a large number of subscribers. The company’s latest figures say that as of the last quarter of 2021, the platform already had 129.8 million customers worldwide, surpassing Netflix in terms of annual new subscribers (23.2 million in total).
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