SOMOSTV LLC, is an American

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entertainment company engaged in the production, distribution, and marketing of

channels in the U.S. Hispanic market,

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, and the

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. Headquartered in

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, the company owns and operates two networks: ViendoMovies and

Semillitas Semillitas TV is an American Spanish-language children Pay TV, pay television channel, owned by the media company SomosTV, headed by Luis Villanueva (President & CEO of SOMOS Group). The channel targets children 0–5 years of age with the obje ...

. SOMOSTV is headed by Luis Villanueva, an executive in the

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media and entertainment industry, President and CEO of SOMOS Group.

History

SOMOSTV started operations in 2006 with the launch of ViendoMovies, a 24-hour movie channel which features exclusive, theatrical

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, commercial-free movies (

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) produced in

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. ViendoMovies, has distribution agreements with all major

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, telcos, and

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distribution companies in the

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and

. ViendoMovies programing is a mix of feature film genres from Spain and Latin America, packaged with promotional material targeting the U.S. Hispanic Market including coverage of Film Festivals .In 2010, SomosTV expanded its services with the launch of its second channel, “

. “Semillitas” is an

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network oriented to Hispanic toddlers and pre-teens and preschool aged children with the objective to entertain and helping preserve the language and

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. From its initial launch in the United States and Puerto Rico, “Semillitas” expanded internationally, being distributed today in

, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Television Content

The company is considered an aggregator or bundler of licensed content but it often produces and edits content in-house. SOMOSTV has developed, manages and distributes two television networks, “ ViendoMovies” and “

".^{2/sup> Luis Villanueva also oversees Somos Distribution LLC (an independent distributor of audiovisual programming worldwide), SOMOS Productions LLC (an independent programming producer) and SOMOS Films (production of feature films), together known as SOMOS Group. In 2014 Luis Villanueva added to SOMOS Group SOMOS Next LLC, an Internet "OTT" (Over-the-top media service

An over-the-top (OTT) media service is a media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms: the types of companies that traditionally act as controllers or distributors ...
) content distributor, with a catalog of films under the brand FlixLatino (for the US and Puerto Rico) and children's animation under the brand "Pingüinitos" (for Mexico, Central America and The Caribbean). ³. In 2023 SOMOS Group further expanded with the addition of SOMOS Fast, a company that produces Free ad-supported streaming television (Fast) channels (initially Cine en Espanol and Cine de Horror).

References

External links

*http://www.somostv.net

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Mass media companies of the United States
Spanish-language television networks
Spanish-language television networks in the United_States
Companies based in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Television channels and stations established in 2006}