DIRECTV Mas To Launch Cine Nostalgia: Exclusive Classic Mexican Cinema Channel

Posted on: September 10th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Entertainment ] [ Press Releases ] [ Blogante Entertainment ] [ Blogante Entertainment Essentials ]
Tags: DirecTV, DIRECTV Mas, Film, Spanish-language
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DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation’s leading satellite television service, is offering DIRECTV Más customers a look back at the golden era of Mexican cinema with the launch today of Cine Nostalgia, a new 24-hour exclusive classic Mexican cinema channel.

Airing on DIRECTV Más, DIRECTV’s Spanish and English-language programming service, Cine Nostalgia provides viewers with the best of Mexican cinema classic films and documentaries depicting life in Mexico during the twentieth century. Cine Nostalgia is now available nationwide on DIRECTV Más channel 424.

Cine Nostalgia offers the largest, most comprehensive library of top-rated films from the golden era of Mexican cinema, with several generations of favorite actors from Mexico and Latin America. The channel’s 24-hour programming showcases a variety of series such as “The Mexican Revolution,” “Comedy Wagon” and “Divas of the Tropics.”

The channel offers 45 different films every week, five new releases in prime time, and various documentary series including “Great Moments of Our Cinema,” “Great Moments of Our History” and “Great Music Moments,” as well as movie star biographies and historical moments of Mexico and the world. Cinema Nostalgia’s video library showcases mythical figures who have become some of the best film stars of several generations in Spanish cinema in Mexico and Latin America.

The channel pays tribute to the actors and actresses most representative of the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s including Cantinflas, Pedro Infante and Maria Flex, the best of nostalgic movies that are now considered classic films. Cine Nostalgia also offers twelve daily programming blocks with different genres of films including dramas, comedies, music and action.

“DIRECTV Más is proud to partner with Cine Nostalgia to offer classic Mexican films & documentaries with exceptional cinematography that today is still considered superior film making,” said John de Armas, vice president, WORLDDIRECT, Inc. “No other Spanish-language content provider can offer this experience. The addition of Cine Nostalgia to DIRECTV’s Spanish and English programming packages gives the U.S. Latino community an exclusive and memorable television experience.”

Cine Nostalgia CEO, Carlos Vasallo said, “Cine Nostalgia is aimed at a specific segment of the market – the viewer who craves nostalgic cinema that creates feelings of longing, joy, sadness or love, led by the memory of people, places, and eras in Mexico that have filled their lives with importance and meaning. Cine Nostalgia is also aimed at the next future generation of viewers that have heard so much about the golden age of Mexican film, but have not had chance to experience it.””