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BlackBerry World Adds Shows From PBS, Others

By TechTaffy Desk

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BlackBerry has added new television content for BlackBerry10 users in the U.S.

Kevin Conroy (President, Digital and Enterprise Development, Univision Communications): More than three quarters of the U.S. Hispanic population own a smartphone and they outpace their non-Hispanic counterparts in mobile video consumption by double digits. 

TV shows from PBS, Univision and Viacom are now a part of the catalogue available for sale on the BlackBerry World storefront, bringing Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, PBS’s Downton Abbey series and Spanish telenovelas.

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