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Warner Bros. Discovery Americas

Latin American regional affiliate of Warner Bros. Discovery

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7855896 ↗
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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.

Warner Bros. Discovery 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 and operates sports in two languages (Spanish and Portuguese for Brazil) with "channel feeds customized according needs of advertising and sales opportunities".

Current assets

Movie channels

HBO (Latin America)

HBO 2

HBO Family

HBO Signature

HBO+

HBO Mundi

HBO Pop

HBO Xtreme

News

CNN Brasil (licensed to Novus Media)

CNN Chile (licensed to Carey Media)

CNN en Español (except Brazil and Cuba; also in the United States)

CNN International (distribution)

CNN US (distribution)

HLN (distribution)

Kids & Family Group

Cartoon Network

Cartoonito

Discovery Kids

Tooncast

Sports

TNT Sports

TNT Sports Argentina

TNT Sports Brazil

TNT Sports Chile

TNT Sports Mexico

Entertainment, Factual & Lifestyle Group

TNT Latin America

TNT Novelas

TNT Series

Adult Swim

TCM (Latin America)

Space

Warner Channel

Animal Planet

Discovery Channel

Discovery Home & Health

Discovery Science

Discovery Theater

Discovery Turbo

Discovery World

HTV

Food Network

HGTV

Investigation Discovery

TLC

Former assets

Closed

Retro (replaced by TCM or TruTV, depending on the cable provider, on April 1, 2009)

Infinito (replaced by TNT Series on March 10, 2015)

Discovery Civilization (replaced by HGTV in Brazil on November 5, 2019, and closed on January 3, 2022, in Latin America)

Boomerang (replaced by Cartoonito on December 1, 2021)

TBS (replaced by TNT Novelas on June 26, 2023)

TruTV (replaced by Adult Swim on October 31, 2023)

Glitz (joint venture with Cisneros Media) (closed on April 5, 2024)

I.Sat (closed on April 1, 2024)

MuchMusic (closed on March 15, 2024)

Divested

Chilevisión (sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021; currently owned by Vytal Group Ltd.)

Crunchyroll Latin America – sold to Sony Pictures Television in 2021

Mega Media (27.5% with Bethia)

Mega

Mega 2

Mega Ficción

Mega Plus

ETC – sold to 2BeNamed in March 2026

Particular Crowd (spun off in 2023)

Golf Channel

Divisions

Imagen Satelital S.A. (formerly Turner Internacional Argentina) is an Argentine commercial broadcasting company headquartered in Buenos Aires and founded in 1990. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros.

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The public source identifies “Warner Bros. Discovery Americas” as latin American regional affiliate of Warner Bros. Discovery. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Warner, Bros and Discovery.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 1993, 1994, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Warner, Bros and Discovery providing the first useful test.
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