Los Angeles-based distributor Rive Gauche Television secured a host of deals at Mipcom last week, including licensing factual entertainment best-seller Dog Whisperer to a Uruguayan terrestrial.
In Latin America, Uruguay’s Saeta TV Channel 10 picked up the series for free-TV transmission, now that Animal Planet’s pay-TV exclusivity window for the region has expired. It will begin [...]

The sensual passionate tango dance originated in the River Plate cities of Montevideo and Buenos Aires and the presentation was jointly submitted by Uruguay and Argentina to the Unesco convention which began Tuesday in Abu Dhabi.
Unesco said heritages seeking approval, transmit from “generation to generation” and give “communities and groups a feeling of identity”.
It added [...]