Digital Satellite TV News

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.

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.

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.

Eutelsat Communications Reports Record Revenue Growth

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:40:37 +0000

Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Video Applications registered a sustained increase in revenue (+8.5%) with 3,329 TV channels broadcast by Eutelsat’s fleet at quarter end (+4.7%).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bell TV first in Canada to offer 100 High Definition TV channels

Digital TV News — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:20:04 +0000

BCE (TSX, NYSE: BCE) has announced that Bell has reaffirmed its TV leadership in Québec and across Canada by becoming the first television provider in the country to offer 100 High Definition channels.

Philips retails Pace set top boxes for CANAL+ Group

Digital TV News — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:45 +0000

Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced the retail launch of its new range of CANAL+ (Paris:VIV) set-top boxes. All the devices are 'CANAL READY', meaning consumers can access free-to-air digital broadcasts with the option to upgrade to pay-TV.

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.

ADB Group delivers a mid-period business update

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:30:58 +0000

Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX: ADBN) has provided an update on the development of its business. The demand from cable and satellite segments remains strong, with the demand from terrestrial segment picking up and IPTV starting to follow.

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.

Cyfrowy Polsat offers Echostar PVR

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:10 +0000

Cyfrowy Polsat is making a new set-top box available to its customers. The receiver, from Echostar, is a high-definition PVR with a 320GB hard disk. The HD DVR-7400 receiver is compatible with the DVB-S and DVB-S2 as well as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Dish TV India adds 407,000 DTH subscribers in latest quarter

Digital TV News — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:10:38 +0000

Dish TV India (BOM:532839) has announced its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 ended 30th September 2009. 0.41 Million new DTH subscribers were added during the quarter.

Entel launches DTH in Bolivia

Digital TV News — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:20:41 +0000

Bolivia's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel S.A.) has launched its Entel TV direct-to-home (DTH) satellite pay TV service. Entel TV is the first platform in Bolivia to provide digital television in high definition (HD).

Digital Set Top Box Market Remains a Strong Opportunity for Vendors and Technology Providers

Digital TV News — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:20:06 +0000

While the global recession has dampened growth in digital set top boxes (STB) in 2009, the market remains a tremendous opportunity for STB manufacturers and technology providers, reports In-Stat.

SES Reports Solid Nine Months Core Infrastructure Performance

Digital TV News — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:20:44 +0000

SES (Paris, LuxX:SESG) has reported results for the nine months to 30 September 2009. No satellites were launched in the quarter, however preparations are well advanced for the launch of NSS-12 which will deliver a mix of DTH, VSAT and telecom applications.

Shaw adds 113,000 digital TV subscribers in latest quarter

Digital TV News — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:56:35 +0000

Shaw Communications (TSX: SJR.B, NYSE: SJR) has announced results for the quarter ended August 31, 2009. In the quarter digital cable customers were up 110,501 to 1,297,684. DTH customers increased 2,728 to 900,941.

BSkyB adds 287,000 HD customers in latest quarter

Digital TV News — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:10:20 +0000

In the three months to 30 September 2009, BSkyB (LSE:BSY) continued to see strong demand for its products. Sky+HD was the principal driver reaching 5.902 million households in the quarter and surpassing 60% penetration of the base.

South Africa announces DTT STB subsidy plans

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:40:23 +0000

As part of its transition to digital TV, South Africa's Cabinet has allocated R400 million to subsidise the set-top boxes of up to 5 million poor households. The country's Bureau of Standards is finalising a South African DTT STB standard.

Spain’s DIGITAL+ still losing subscribers

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:30:52 +0000

Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for the period January-September 2009. DIGITAL+, Sogecable’s Spanish satellite platform, had 1,899,216 subscribers at 30th September, 2009.

Thomson sees U.S. satellite set-top box weakness

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE: TMS) has announced results for the quarter ending September 30, 2009. In the quarter Thomson saw weakness across all Connect markets, in particular in the North American market with low orders for satellite set-top boxes.

Meo surpasses 500 thousand customers

Digital TV News — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:28 +0000

Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, surpassed 500 thousand customers, representing circa 64% of PT’s ADSL customers and 19% of its traffic generating lines, at the end of 2Q09.

Digital Fly DTH begins test broadcasting in the Ukraine

Digital TV News — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:10:41 +0000

Ukraine's Digital Fly has begun test broadcasting of its digital TV service on satellite Thor 3 with the commercial launch expected to take place on November 15th this year.

Record sales of digital satellite receivers in Germany

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:30:08 +0000

According to the latest figures from GfK released by ASTRA Deutschland, in the first eight months of 2009, nearly 1.5 million digital satellite receiver were sold in Germany with a value of around 167 million euros.

Sky Italia to offer DVB-T USB stick for its HD STBs

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:10:15 +0000

Sky Italia (NASDAQ and ASX: NWS) is planning to launch a DVB-T USB stick which will allow Sky HD and My Sky HD users to receive the free RAI and Mediaset channels that, since the launch of TivùSat, are no longer being broadcast by Sky Italia.

Slovak Telekom starts Magio TV DTH trial

Digital TV News — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:40:38 +0000

Slovak Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE, NYSE: DT) has taken preparatory steps towards launching satellite DTH in Slovakia. The company has registered the brand name MagioSat TV for the service and is running trials on the Amos 3 satellite at 4°W.