HBO Latin America Group

HBO Latin America was a company that owned and distributed several television channels in the region of Latin America. It was originally founded as a joint venture between Time Warner and Ole Communications in 1991 with the launch of HBO in the region. The HBO Brazilian channel was launched in 1994. In 1990s Sony and Disney became shareholders and left in 2010.^[1] The company later began distributing other channels from companies such as Turner, Sony, A&E and NBCUniversal.

HBO Latin America

Company type	subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment Pay television Interactive media
Founded	October 31, 1991; 33 years ago (1991-10-31)
Defunct	May 4, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-04)
Fate	Merged into successors WarnerMedia Latin America and Ole Distribution, thus taking control of all HBO channels in Latin America
Successors	Warner Bros. Discovery Americas Ole Distribution (Distributor of the other channels that HBO Latin America distributed)
Headquarters	Miami, United States
Area served	Latin America
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery International
Subsidiaries	Owned-and-operated channels: HBO HBO2 HBO Plus HBO Signature HBO Family HBO Mundi HBO Pop HBO Xtreme Cinemax Distributed channels: A&E History History 2 Lifetime (all 4 are owned and operated by A+E Networks Latin America, expect Lifetime is a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television Latin America)
Website	hbolag.tv (Discontinued)

In October 2019, WarnerMedia announced that it was buying Ole Communications's minority interest in the HBO Latin America Group, thus taking full control of all HBO channels within the Latin American region. HBO Brasil, which is another joint venture of HBO with Ole was not affected by the transaction.^[2] WarnerMedia and Ole Communications continued their basic television channel distribution in Latin America. Eventually, the company was merged into WarnerMedia in May 2020 (now Warner Bros. Discovery Americas).^[3]

Operating channels

HBO Latin America Group owns and operates these channels:

Spanish

• HBO Latin America (formerly known as HBO Ole)
• HBO 2
• HBO+ (formerly known as HBO Ole 2 and HBO Plus)
• HBO Family
• HBO Signature
• HBO Mundi (formerly known as Max)
• HBO Pop (formerly known as Max Up)
• HBO Xtreme (formerly known as Max Prime)
• Cinemax Latin America (Since 2009 as an ad-supported basic cable network)

Portuguese

There are also Portuguese feeds of the HBO Latin America channels.

• HBO Brasil Shut Down in April 30
• HBO 2
• HBO+
• HBO Family
• HBO Signature
• HBO Mundi (formerly known as Max)
• HBO Pop (formerly known as Max Up)
• HBO Xtreme (formerly known as Max Prime)

Other

HBO Caribbean is operated as a division of HBO Latin America.

Distributed channels

Warner Bros. Discovery distributes the following channels:

Owned by A+E Networks Latin America

• History Latin America
• H2 Latin America (started in July 2014 to replace Bio.)
• A&E Latin America
• Lifetime Latin America (started in June 2014 to replace Sony Spin)

Owned by NBCUniversal International Networks Latin America

• E! Latin America (owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal and Ole Communications)
• Telemundo Internacional (except in Mexico. Owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal and Ole Communications)
• Universal TV (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
• Studio Universal (except in Brazil, where the channel is operated by a 50/50 joint venture between NBCU and Canais Globo and distributed by Canais Globo)
• USA Network (replaced Syfy)

Owned by Sony Pictures Television Networks Latin America

• Sony Channel
• AXN

Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery

• Warner TV

Owned by OLE Communications

• IVC Network

Defunct channels

• Animax
• Bio.
• Locomotion
• Sony Spin
• TV Quality
• Mundo Olé
• A&E Mundo
• Syfy
• Sci-Fi
• HBO Family
• HBO HD

See also

• Turner Broadcasting System
• WarnerMedia