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DISH Network adds 241,000 net subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:59:13 +0000

DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009. DISH Network gained approximately 241,000 net subscribers during the quarter, ending with approximately 13.851 million subscribers.

KT QOOK TV passes 1 million subscriber mark

Digital TV News — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:11 +0000

KT Corporation (KRX:030200/NYSE:KTC) has announced that subscribers to its QOOK TV television service in Korea have passed the 1 million mark.

SK broadband adds 35,000 IPTV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:30:10 +0000

SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the third quarter of 2009. Subscribers to SK broadband's broad&tv IPTV service increased by 35,000 in the quarter to reach 810,000 at the end of the period.

Slovak Telekom IPTV passes 50,000 subscriber mark in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:50:40 +0000

Slovak Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. The number of the Magio digital television (IPTV) customers has significantly exceeded the level of 50,000.

Magyar Telekom Sat TV up 34k and IPTV up 9k in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:40:44 +0000

Magyar Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. The total number of TV customers was 584,000 at the end of September with growth mostly driven by satellite. Demand for IPTV also strengthened.

RomTelecom finishes 3Q09 with 831,000 DTH subscribers

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:30:08 +0000

The OTE Group (Athens: HTO, NYSE: OTE) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. In Romania, RomTelecom's DTH subscribers passed 831,000 in the quarter and a new IPTV project is to be launched in the coming months.

CenturyLink (CenturyTel/EMBARQ) Reports Third Quarter Earnings

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:10:14 +0000

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has announced results for third quarter 2009, which include the effect of the Embarq acquisition completed July 1, 2009. In the quarter, video subscribers as a percentage of primary residential lines were approximately 11%.

DIRECTV U.S. up 136,000 subscribers and DTVLA up 162,000 in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:12 +0000

The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported third quarter 2009 results. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 136,000 to give 18.44 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 162,000 to give 4.33 million, at quarter end.

DT Germany sells 164,000 IPTV packages in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:10:43 +0000

Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released results for the third quarter. Entertain, DT's IPTV service in Germany, had sold 885,000 packages by the end of the quarter, well on the way to the target of one million for the full year.

Time Warner Cable digital subscribers stable at 8.8 million

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:23:32 +0000

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009. At the end of the period TWC had approximately 13.0 million video subscribers, of which approximately 8.8 million received video via digital transmission.

Sky Italia subscriber base remains at 4.8 million

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:30:33 +0000

News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. SKY Italia's 4.8 million subscriber base remained unchanged during the period.

Comcast deploys additional 2.6 million STBs in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:19:18 +0000

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. At the end of the period Comcast's digital video customers totaled 18.0 million, an increase of 463,000 during the quarter.

UPC adds over 400,000 DVR cable RGUs in the last twelve months

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:21 +0000

Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. In the last twelve months, digital cable RGUs have grown by 42% or 1.9 million, to give a digital penetration of 45%.

Asia subscription TV figures higher than ROW combined

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:20:38 +0000

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced new data for subscription TV penetration across the Asia Pacific, noting that the region now has 326 million pay-TV, up 26 million homes in 2009.

Cablevision digital cable down 14,300 subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:20:36 +0000

Cablevision Systems (NYSE:CVC) has reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. iO: Interactive Optimum digital video customers were down 14,300 or 0.5% from June 2009 and up 73,800 or 2.6% from September 2008.

44% of France’s ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:39 +0000

France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the second quarter 2009.At the end of the period, 44% of ADSL subscribers, or 7.7 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.

KT adds 183,000 Qook TV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:46 +0000

Korea Telecom (KT) [KRX:030200/NYSE:KTC] has released its 3rd Quarter 2009 results. Mega-TV IPTV subscribers reached 907,000 at the end of September 2009, up 183,000 in the quarter.

Coship doing well in South America

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:01 +0000

The Brazilian DTH service Via Embratel (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) is expected to have installed about 600,000 satellite set-top boxes from Coship (Shenzhen:002052) by the end of December 2009.

In-Stat Looks Forward to Ultra-High Definition TV

Digital TV News — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:20:38 +0000

While the market for High-Definition TV (HDTV) has hit the mainstream, the industry has already started speculating about the commercialization of Ultra-High Definition (UHD).

Reliance Big TV reaches 1.95 million subscribers in latest quarter

Digital TV News — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:18 +0000

Reliance Communications (Bombay:532712) has announced its results for the quarter and half year ended September 30, 2009. Reliance Big TV currently has 1.95 million subscribers, about 13% of the DTH market in India.

T-Hrvatski Telekom MAXtv adds 19,000 subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:59 +0000

T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the first nine months of 2009. MAXtv, T-HT’s IPTV service now has approximately 190,000 subscribers with nearly 19,000 net adds in Q3 2009.

Cogeco latest quarter shows 10k digital TV adds in Canada and 23k in Portugal

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:10:45 +0000

Cogeco Cable (TSX: CCA) has announced results for the fourth quarter and 2009 fiscal year ended August 31, 2009. In the quarter, digital TV net additions stood at 9,674 customers in Canada with 23,456 added by Cabovisão in Portugal.

Belgacom TV adds 75,000 customers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:11:35 +0000

Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. Over the period July to September 2009, the Belgacom TV customer base grew by 75,000 customers compared to 52,000 for the same period last year.

MinDig TV starts to take off in Hungary

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:25 +0000

According to the latest sales figures from Antenna Hungária, in Hungary there was a 50% growth in the sales of DVB-T MPEG-4 compatible DTT receivers in September compared with the previous month.

SureWest Video RGUs up 100 in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:12 +0000

SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) has announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Broadband Residential revenues increased 12% year-over-year to $29.4 million due to 10% growth in average revenue per user (ARPU).

Canal Digital DTH loses 8,000 subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:20:13 +0000

Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 8,000 in the quarter. Cable TV subscribers were up 1,000.

Virgin Media adds 80,800 HD DVR subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:59:07 +0000

Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. During the quarter, Virgin added 80,800 V+ HD DVR subscribers to reach an installed base of 749,300.

J:COM adds 85k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:47 +0000

J:COM (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Year-on-year, the number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 495,900 (28%) to 2,263,500, accounting for 87% of all cable TV subscribers.

A Canvas-type proposition will reach 3.5m homes by 2014

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:07 +0000

Analysis from Screen Digest focuses on the prospects for a project Canvas-type venture in the UK. Screen Digest believes that a hybrid open IPTV platform such as that proposed by the BBC and its partners will reach 3.5 million homes by 2014.

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:30:14 +0000

Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.