A&E (Latin America)

A&E is a Latin American subscription television channel and the Latin American feed of A&E. Its programming focused on the issuance of biographies, documentaries, and series (especially dramas, police and mysteries), but later it expanded to also include reality television. It has a reach of 32 million homes in Latin America.

It is owned by A+E Networks, has a partnership with Ole Communications, and is currently distributed for the region by Ole Distribution, a joint venture between Ole Communications and Warner Bros. Discovery.

## History

The channel began in Latin America in 1996, through a partnership between A&E and HBO Latin America Group, with the objective of the documentary channel *"Mundo Ole"* that had been broadcasting since 1997. Thanks to this association that occurred two years later, productions began to be seen of the Biography brand, one of the recognized programs of the channel at that time, and which received two Emmy Awards in 1999 and 2002.

Over the years, the "A&E" brand gained more presence within the channel until finally getting rid of the word "World" in 2005 and having its current identity. Its headquarters for this region are located in Caracas, Venezuela and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The channel, which originally focused on biographies, documentaries, and drama series (especially crime and mystery), has expanded into other areas such as reality TV and music; the latter broadcasting video clips; It also featured the broadcast of musical events, broadcasting the *Viña del Mar Festival* in Chile, broadcast in 2004 and from 2009 (live and direct) until 2014, 67 since 2015, it began to be broadcast by the channels HTV and TNT​ and started broadcasting the *Premios Independent Spirit* from 2017.

The high definition signal was launched on August 2, 2012 for Latin America.

### Dubbing and subtitling

Starting in the second half of 2008, A&E began to broadcast its programming dubbed into Latin American Spanish, leaving subtitling aside. Much of the programming is dubbed in Venezuela and Colombia at the VC Medios studios.

However, a minimal number of original language programs were still maintained, such as The Beast and Numb3rs series.

The channel currently offers a secondary English audio track with the audio from the original language shows.

## Feed structure

The channel is made up of 7 regionalized feeds, including one in HD.

* Mexican feed - Feed emitted exclusively for Mexico. Its reference time corresponds to that of  Mexico City (UTC-6).
* Panregional feed - Feed emitted for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Central America, Dominican Republic, and the Caribbean. Its reference time corresponds to that of  Bogotá (UTC-5).
* Venezuelan feed: Signal emitted exclusively for Venezuela, adopted to the Venezuelan Spring law. Its reference time corresponds to that of  Caracas (UTC-4).
* Chilean feed: Signal emitted exclusively for Chile. Its reference time corresponds to that of  Santiago (UTC-4/-3 DST).
* Southern feed: Issued for Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its reference time corresponds to that of  Buenos Aires (UTC-3).
* HD feed: Available for South American countries. Its reference times correspond to those of  Bogotá (UTC-5),  Caracas (UTC-4) and  Buenos Aires (UTC-3).

### Notes

* Most regionalized signals are broadcast in high definition simultaneously with the signal in standard resolution for most cable operators.
* The HD signal is aimed at satellite television operators, but it is not broadcast simultaneously with the regionalized standard signals.
* In Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia, Movistar TV reduces the screen to letterbox format in its satellite service.