{"id":81973,"date":"2012-11-30T01:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/encompass-makes-key-move-in-latin-america\/"},"modified":"2012-11-30T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T17:23:23","slug":"encompass-makes-key-move-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/encompass-makes-key-move-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Encompass Makes Key Move in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-29-12] <strong>Encompass Digital Media<\/strong> has made a key move in the Latin America broadcast market by acquiring <strong>TIBA Satellite Services<\/strong>, which is based out of Buenos Aires. TIBA is a provider of outsourced channel origination and transmission services in Latin America, one of the most vibrant television markets globally right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tTIBA counts blue chip broadcast brands<strong> FOX, Disney, ESPN, DirecTV<\/strong> and <strong>Turner <\/strong>amongst its customer base. It has also been a key customer of <strong>SES <\/strong>in recent times, signing a new capacity deal with them last year. It agreed to extend its use of more than five transponders on the SES-6 satellite for the entire life of the spacecraft. SES-6 is scheduled for launch early next year and will be located at the 319.5 degrees East orbital slot.<br \/>\n\tFor Encompass, the deal is further evidence of a strategy targeting high growth developing regions such as Latin America and Asia. The company is a growing presence in the global teleport market, and in particular is targeting emerging regions such as Latin America and Asia. Recently, the company announced that it had a reached a major broadcast milestone in Asia with the origination and transmission of 100 channels from its Singapore facility.<br \/>\n\tNow, the company will look to target the lucrative Latin America market which is seeing strong growth in its key broadcast markets. The market is a vibrant one for broadcast with many new DTH operations starting up in Brazil and other key territories. With economies performing strongly, the demand for digital TV is on the increase.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tFor TIBA, the company hopes to benefit from becoming part of Encompass. \u201cWe have been looking for a partner that would augment TIBA\u2019s position from a business perspective and one that would provide a strong cultural fit. Encompass was the perfect match; a dynamic partner with global reach that will lead the combined company into a new and successful path of growth,\u201d Norberto Alvarez Vitale, TIBA CEO said in a statement.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-29-12] Encompass Digital Media has made a key move in the Latin America broadcast market by acquiring TIBA Satellite Services, which is based out of Buenos Aires. TIBA is a provider of outsourced channel origination and transmission services in Latin America, one of the most vibrant television markets globally right now.&nbsp; TIBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}