Latin American television

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Latin American television has a model quite similar (but not identical) to television in the United States. Unlike the US television network standards, in most countries of Latin America there are not television networks that provide programming for their affiliates. Most television networks had regional subsidiaries (that provide community news, less than the US) or rebroadcast translators.

Only 30% of Latin America's television is produced in the region, with only a small part of that being local production. 62% of it is imported from the U.S. Globalisation contributed to the consolidation of a three-tier structure formed by large producers and exporters of audio-visual content based in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela; medium-sized producers and exporters in Chile, Colombia and Peru; and modest producers with virtually no exports in Bolivia, Central America, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay

There are no all-English TV channels except for cable and satellite.