Estrella Media, a vertically integrated, multi-platform, Spanish-language media company, today appointed Arya Towfighi executive vice president and general counsel. Towfighi joined Estrella Media in November 2019 as a senior vice president, overseeing the company’s legal functions. His role has now been expanded to include oversight of the human resources, communications, and business affairs functions of the company. Towfighi […]
Industry veteran René Santaella, previously at Sony and Disney, will lead the multi-platform Spanish-language media company’s digital transformation and growth.
Hispanic media company Estrella Media said today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with live TV streaming platform fuboTV. Estrella Media’s live national EstrellaTV channel, as well as its flagship television station in Los Angeles, KRCA, are now available to fuboTV’s subscribers on its Latino package in the U.S. This deal marks one of […]
Multiplatform, Spanish-language media company Estrella Media says its EstrellaTV network is now available over the air in the Corpus Christi, Texas, market (DMA 128). Effective Monday, June 8, EstrellaTV started broadcasting on LPTV station K21OC on ch. 54.2 in Corpus Christi, owned by HC2 Holdings. Launched in 2009, Hispanic network EstrellaTV has grown to 11 […]
Estrella Media announced Thursday that all DirecTV and U-verseTV subscribers will be provided free access to EstrellaTV for 60 days, effective immediately, if not already in their programming package. The company said: “EstrellaTV is an essential news and entertainment source for the U.S. Hispanic community. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, EstrellaTV recently expanded its news operations […]
LBI Media, which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last October, has renamed itself Estrella Media. Estrella Media is owned by HPS Investment Partners. Lenard Liberman, who founded LBI, gave up his equity in the company as part of the reorganization plan.
