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Verizon FiOS TV launches 10 new Spanish-language channels in high definition

June 5, 2012

Maribel Ramos-Weiner

Michelle Webb of Verizon: Verizon FiOS TV now offers up to 75 Spanish-language channels

Verizon FiOS TV has become the country’s leading television provider of Spanish-language channels, announcing today the launch of 10 new Spanish-language channels in high definition. Verizon now offers up to 75 Spanish-language channels on FiOS TV, dependent on the local channels available in each market.Nine of the 10 new Spanish-language HD channels are provided by Olympusat Inc., a leading independent distributor of Hispanic content in the United States. Known as Ultra HDPlex, the Olympusat channels are: Ultra Cine, Ultra Fiesta, Ultra Kidz, Ultra Mex, Ultra Luna, Ultra Macho, Ultra Film, Ultra Docu and Ultra Clásico. The 10th channel, Multimedios Television, offers Spanish-language family and entertainment programming broadcast from Monterrey, Mexico. FiOS TV recently completed the launch of all 10 channels.In addition, Verizon announced a new multi-year carriage agreement with Univision Communications, Inc., which includes the launch of three new networks – Univision Deportes, Univision tlnovelas and FOROtv – as well as rights for multiplatform and on demand viewing.“Our customers have told us that high-quality Spanish-language programming helps to keep their culture alive, and we’re helping to make that happen by giving them the content that they want. With the addition of 10 new Spanish-language HD channels, Verizon is offering our FiOS TV customers the best – and the most – Spanish-language channels as well as the largest Spanish-language HD offering in the nation,” said Michelle Webb, director of Content Strategy and Acquisition for Verizon. “Olympusat’s Ultra HDPlex channels have given Verizon’s FiOS TV customers a high-definition Spanish-language entertainment variety that Hispanics are craving,” said Tom Mohler, president & CEO of Olympusat, Inc.