The Curtain Rises, At Last
Live arts reemerge from a dark pandemic year Caroline Rose performing on June 12 at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. July 19, 2021
On an evening in early June, people lounged in camp chairs and blankets on the grass at Point State Park, lines formed at food booths on the edge of the lawn and people stood shoulder-to-shoulder, swaying to the sounds of blues rock and soul music performed by Celisse on the main stage.
It was more than a good time along the river that opening night of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. Live music performed before a live audience had returned after more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, masking, social distancing and shuttered performance spaces that threatened the financial health of art organizations, cancelled hundreds of performances, laid off workers and forced arts groups to re-think everything from business models to how they approach the
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Latin America grows FAST
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Latin America grows FAST
The free, ad-supported streaming TV market has grown pretty drastically in the past few years. But it’s growing even more dramatically in Latin America, to the point of already rivaling more established markets like Europe.
For ViacomCBS’s free, ad-supported streaming TV service Pluto TV, Latin America is “our second-biggest region outside the U.S.,” said ViacomCBS Networks International COO and president of streaming Kelly Day.
That designation is especially notable considering that Pluto TV only launched in Latin America in April 2020, starting in 17 countries and expanded to Brazil in November. By the end of 2020, its app had been downloaded more than 19 million times in the region. Day declined to say how many monthly active users Pluto TV has in Latin America but described the audience segment as “a very significant portion” of the ser