{"id":473686,"date":"2026-05-07T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473686\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:35:14","slug":"disney-tv-azteca-in-mexico-strike-free-to-air-broadcast-content-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473686\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+, TV Azteca in Mexico Strike Free-to-Air Broadcast Content Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDisney+<\/a> is expanding\u00a0its content offering in Mexico through a new agreement\u202fwith TV\u00a0Azteca in its latest content partnership with a free-to-air broadcaster. Under the deal, financial details of which were not disclosed, the upcoming season\u202fof TV Azteca\u2019s MasterChef 24\/7 will be\u202favailable\u202fon Disney+ from\u00a0May 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTV Azteca joins a group of free-to-air broadcasters that\u00a0Disney+ has started working with in the form of content partnerships,\u00a0including\u00a0XSports\u00a0in Brazil,\u00a0Atresmedia and RTVE in Spain<\/a>, ITVX in the U.K.<\/a>,\u00a0ARD and ZDF in Germany, SIC in Portugal, and TVING in\u00a0Japan.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNewly minted Disney CEO Josh D\u2019Amaro\u00a0recently outlined<\/a>\u00a0his vision to make Disney+ the \u201cdigital centerpiece\u201d of the company.\u00a0Last year, Karl Holmes, general manager for Disney+ EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), emphasized the win-win aspect of content deals with broadcasters. \u201cThe big free-to-air channels still aggregate the largest audiences, have the largest shows, and have the largest production budgets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really important we do work with free-to-air. So we license content to free-to-air. We license content from free-to-air. We have co-production agreements in place with most of the large free-to-air broadcasters across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u202fMexican collaboration, which builds on\u202fthe existing relationship\u202fbetween the two companies on reality shows \u202fLa Academia\u202f(2024) and\u202fLa Granja VIP (2025), which have been on Disney+, will also include \u201cother reality formats to be confirmed soon,\u201d the partners said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs audiences continue to evolve, Disney+ is continuously expanding its content offering,\u201d said\u00a0Henri Ringel,\u00a0senior vp,\u00a0acquisitions & content sales at the Walt Disney Company Latin America.\u00a0\u201cThe integration of new formats, such as reality shows from Azteca\u2019s network, reflects this evolution and the need to offer stories that unfold live and are highly engaging, thereby strengthening our value proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of this agreement, Disney+ said it also recently added three live channels from\u00a0TV\u00a0Azteca International<\/a>, namely Azteca UNO -1, Azteca Deportes Network, and Coraz\u00f3n, \u201cbringing together a diverse slate of local fiction and non-fiction content, sports\u00a0events and\u00a0news, and entertainment programming\u202fto\u202fsubscribers in\u202fMexico\u201d\u00a0in\u202fa single destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Disney+, we are committed to offering a broad and diverse portfolio of content that resonates with different audiences in Mexico,\u201d said\u00a0Luis Arvizu, senior vp, general manager & gead of DTC at the Walt Disney Company Mexico.\u00a0\u201cProven reality formats, live linear channels, and a variety of content give us the opportunity to continuously deliver compelling entertainment options within the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional TV\u00a0Azteca content\u00a0that will become available on Disney+\u00a0beginning in\u202fMay under the content partnership are the likes of telenovelas\u202fMirada de Mujer,\u202fCuando seas m\u00eda, and\u202fLa Loba, as well as all seasons of\u202fDoctora Luc\u00eda\u202fand\u202fLoter\u00eda del Crimen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney+ is expanding\u00a0its content offering in Mexico through a new agreement\u202fwith TV\u00a0Azteca in its latest content partnership with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[1887,18,117,19,1452,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-473686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}