SPI International expands in the Caribbean

‘Our channel offer is very diverse, so are the target groups and audiences we are serving. Our two sports channels - FightBox HD and Fast’nFunBox HD - cater to martial arts and extreme sports fans while DocuBox HD is a channel of high quality documentaries. We have a music channel and a fashion channel with HD content, an arthouse movie channel for more sophisticated viewers who crave ambitious cinema and we also offer an interactive gaming channel, which is suitable for family entertainment’, explains Gustavo Monaco, SPI’s sales director for Latin America and Caribbean.

And adds: ‘We develop our channels to bring top value and best content to our viewers. In addition, we are localizing our channel portfolio to Spanish. Whether it is sports or wildlife, music or adult entertainment our programming offer always comes from the world’s top content producers. We have the strategic vision and flexibility to operate on multiscreen basis which is very attractive to operators’.

SPI International is also developing its first 4K/UHD channel, a commercial version of Funbox 4K/UHD which will debut this September in Europe and will be eventually ready for worldwide distribution, including Latin America. The demo version of the channel is already broadcast from the Hot Bird satellite in Europe and has been launched by Vodafone Portugal and Vodafone Spain.