Digital Satellite TV News

24% of Russian homes equipped for satellite TV reception

Digital TV News — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:20:20 +0000

The results of a survey produced by Eutelsat and Ipsos on TV reception modes and trends in Russia has shown that of the 53 million TV homes in Russia, 24% are equipped for Direct-to-Home satellite reception, making satellite the country's leading platform for digital television.

Eastern Europe to add 13 million digital TV homes in 2013

Digital TV News — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:30 +0000

Rapid conversion means that the number of digital homes in Eastern Europe will nearly double between 2012 and 2018, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Eastern Europe report estimates that 13 million digital TV homes will be added in 2013 alone.

Vivendi (Canal+, GVT) releases first quarter 2013 results

Digital TV News — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:10:09 +0000

Vivendi has released its first quarter 2013 results. At the end of March 2013, Canal+ Group’s total subscription portfolio was up 285,000 year-on-year, thanks to good performances in the Canal+ Overseas territories, in particular in Africa and Vietnam.

HD+ increases customer base to 1.1 million German households in 1Q 2013

Digital TV News — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:27 +0000

SES (Paris;LuxX: SESG) has announced that its HDTV platform, HD+, recorded 1,103,701 paying households on March 31, 2013. HD+ added 158,768 new customers in the first quarter of 2013, corresponding to an increase of its customer base of almost 17 percent.

Reliance Digital TV subscribers unchanged in 1Q 2013 at 4.6 million

Digital TV News — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:22 +0000

Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) today announced its consolidated financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Reliance Digital TV currently has 4.6 million subscribers, the same number as at the end of 2012, with 8% share of the DTH market in India.

Canal+ Spain subscribers down 26,500 in 1Q 2013

Digital TV News — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:01 +0000

Spain's Grupo Prisa has announced financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Satellite (Canal+) subscribers fell during the first quarter of the year by 28,350, impacted by the weakness of the economic environment and domestic consumption.

DISH Network Reports First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

Digital TV News — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:30:51 +0000

DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ending March 31, 2013. Net pay TV subscribers grew by 36,000 in the quarter. The number of subscribers was 14.092 million at quarter-end compared with 14.071 million at the end of first quarter 2012.

SKY Italia subscribers down another 51,000 in 1Q 2013

Digital TV News — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:30:17 +0000

News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported results for the three months ending March 31, 2013. SKY Italia experienced a net reduction of approximately 51,000 subscribers during the quarter, bringing total subscribers to 4.78 million.

Technicolor selects MaxLinear chip for hybrid satellite/ISDB-T set-top box

Digital TV News — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:30:11 +0000

MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) has announced that Technicolor (Paris: TCH) has selected its MxL683 for a new hybrid satellite / terrestrial (ISDB-T) high-definition (HD) set-top box (STB) for the Latin America market.

Telefonica Europe pay TV subscribers continue to decline

Digital TV News — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:00:09 +0000

Telefónica (Madrid and NYSE: TEF) has released its first quarter (January to March) 2013 results. Pay TV accesses in Latin America reached 2.5 million, up 7% year-on-year. In Europe pay TV subscribers declined to 852 thousand from 1.03 million at the end of March 2012, a fall of 17%.

300,000 homes receiving Cantv's satellite TV service in Venezuela

Digital TV News — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:00:52 +0000

State-owned Cantv has announced that 300,000 Venezuelan homes are now receiving its Cantv Televisión Satelital direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV service. The service consists of 48 channels of video and 20 of audio, and is broadcast on the country's Simón Bolívar satellite.

DIRECTV surpasses 16 million subscriber mark in Latin America

Digital TV News — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:50 +0000

DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) has announced results for the first quarter of 2013. DIRECTV U.S. subscribers were stable at around 20 million. DTVLA added 583,000 to end with 10.91 million subscribers and Sky Mexico had 5.41 million subscribers as of March 31, 2013.

India adds over 10 million satellite TV subscribers in 2012

Digital TV News — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:38 +0000

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released telecom performance indicators for the Quarter ending December 2012. At the end of the year the reported registered subscriber base for satellite TV providers was 54.52 million, up from 44.21 at the end of 2011.

Pay TV household penetration reaches 50% in Venezuela

Digital TV News — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:00:33 +0000

According to preliminary statistics published by its Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL), pay TV subscriptions in Venezuela at the end of March 2013 were 3.61 million, up from 2.89 million at the end of the first quarter of 2012. Household penetration reached 49.97%.

Vipnet offers digital satellite television in Croatia

Digital TV News — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:10:03 +0000

After acquiring in March of this year one hundred percent ownership in the company Digi TV, one of the first digital television service providers in the Croatian market, Vipnet has gone a step further and is offering its customers another service - Vip SAT TV.

airtel Digital TV subscribers pass the 8 million mark

Digital TV News — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:00:31 +0000

Bharti Airtel has released results for the year ended March 31, 2013. Airtel digital TV had 8.1 million customers on its Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform at the end of the quarter, an increase of 872,000 versus the same point in 2012.

BSkyB results for the nine months ended 31 March 2013

Digital TV News — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:00:15 +0000

BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has released results for the nine months ended 31 March 2013. Sky added 108,000 HD customers, 9,000 multiroom and 44,000 paying customers to its new mobile TV service Sky Go Extra durung the quarter.

Freesat now in 1.7 million UK homes

Digital TV News — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:59 +0000

Freesat, the UK’s free-to-air digital satellite television provider has announced 2012/13 results. Having added c.150,000 homes in the last 12 months, Freesat remains the UK's fastest growing established TV platform, and continues to outgrow Pay-TV rivals.

North America to continue to add pay TV subs

Digital TV News — Wed, 01 May 2013 06:20:21 +0000

Despite all of the talk about cord-cutting, a new report from Digital TV Research states that the number of pay TV subscribers in North America will continue to increase – albeit at a slow rate. However, the report states that pay TV penetration will remain flat.

Brazil adds another 523 thousand DTH subscribers in 1Q 2013

Digital TV News — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:00:26 +0000

According to Brazil's telecoms regulator, Anatel, the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended March 2013 at 16.8 million, with more than 3.1 million new subscribers being added over the preceding 12 months – an annual growth rate of 22.9%.

T-Hrvatski Telekom TV subscribers up 7% Y-o-Y at end-March 2013

Digital TV News — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:26 +0000

Croatian telecommunications provider, T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters:THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg:THTC LI, HTRA CZ), has announced results for the three months to 31 March 2013. At the end of March, TV subscribers totalled 347,908, up 7.0% from the same period in 2012.

Orange passes 6 million pay TV customer mark in 1Q 2013

Digital TV News — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:10:32 +0000

France Telecom-Orange (NYSE:FTE) has released results for the first quarter of 2013. In France, digital TV grew 14.3% year on year to 5.208 million customers at 31 March 2013, while in Poland the number of digital TV customers rose 5.4% to 699,000.

SES, Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear revolutionise satellite TV home distribution with industry's first IP-LNB

Digital TV News — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:30:42 +0000

SES (Paris;LuxX: SESG), Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) have announced that they have designing an essential component for cost-effective IP distribution of satellite television to the home – the first LNB incorporating 8-channel satellite-to-IP bridging technology.

SES to pioneer first Ultra HD transmission in HEVC at SES Industry Days

Digital TV News — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:30:30 +0000

SES (Paris;LuxX: SESG) has announced that, together with partners Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), it has pioneered the first Ultra HD transmission in the new HEVC standard live from an ASTRA satellite at 19.2 degrees East.

Satellite TV now reaching 8.2 million homes in Italy

Digital TV News — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:30:25 +0000

Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has revealed the first results of its new survey on TV reception modes and trends across its global footprint. Working in collaboration with Ipsos, Eutelsat announced that 8.2 million homes are now equipped with a Direct-to-Home antenna in Italy.

Ofcom publishes Q4 2012 UK Digital Television Update

Digital TV News — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:00:51 +0000

Ofcom, the communications regulator for the UK, has released its Digital Television Update for the fourth quarter of 2012. In Q4 2012, 98% of households (25.1m) received digital television over any platform, an increase of nearly 5 percentage points on Q4 2011.

Digitürk and Eutelsat Partner on Turkey's First Ultra HD (4K) Demonstration Channel

Digital TV News — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:41 +0000

Digitürk has launched a dedicated demonstration 4K channel in partnership with Eutelsat (Paris: ETL). The broadcast, the first time 4K has been shown in Turkey, helps Digiturk lay the foundations for the next step change in television broadcasting.

Satellite leads the Latin American pay TV charge

Digital TV News — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:40:03 +0000

After a slow start, digital TV penetration is about to rocket in Latin America – from less than a third of homes at end-2012 to nearly 45% by end-2013 and onto 84% by 2018, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.

DIRECTV grew market share in Uruguay in 2012

Digital TV News — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:00:15 +0000

The Uruguayan communications regulator, URSEC, has released a survey of the telecommunications market in Uruguay up to the end of December 2012. The number of Pay TV subscribers at year-end was 592,699, up from 536,812 at the end of 2011, a 10.4% increase.

DIGITALB selects Quadrille for its Push VOD services

Digital TV News — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:30:06 +0000

DIGITALB has chosen Quadrille's QuadriFast™ solution to deploy Video On Demand (VOD) and Catch-Up-TV services in Albania. QuadriFast allows video content to be pushed over the satellite or terrestrial network to a set-top box to be then offered on demand to subscribers.