Televisa and Univision executives said a new global OTT service to launch early next year will roll up their current streaming offerings — including Prende TV, Vix and Blim — and that its content won’t overlap with Univision’s linear networks.They also revealed in a press call that John Malone’s Liberty Global is an investor in the new company called Televisa-Univison.As reported Tuesday evening, Univision will pay $4.8 billion for the content assets of Televisa, a Mexican production powerhouse that already was a minority owner of Univision.
The two companies will create Televisa-Univision, which will be the largest player in Spanish-speaking media. Grupo Televisa will be the biggest stakeholder, owning 45%.
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