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Verizon FIOS video subscribers up 21,000 in 4Q 2016
Jan 24, 2017 – Verizon Communications (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) has reported results for fourth-quarter 2016. In the quarter, Verizon added a net 21,000 Fios Video connections to finish the year with a total of 4.7 million.
News categories: Verizon, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Airtel Digital TV adds 183,000 subscribers in 4Q 2016
Jan 24, 2017 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its third quarter ended December 31, 2016. DTH had 12.6 million customers at the end of the quarter. Net customer additions for Digital TV during the quarter were 183,000.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Millennials account for nearly half of US 'cordless' population
Jan 23, 2017 – According to GfK MRI’s Survey of the American Consumer, Millennials (ages 18 to 34) account for 43% of the 'cordless' population. That is by far the largest generational subsection of the cord-free group.
News categories: GfK MRI, Karen Ramspacher, Digital TV, Market Research, USA

DEN Networks ends 2016 with 10.2 million digital cable subscribers
Jan 23, 2017 – DEN Networks has announced results for the quarter ended 31 December 2016. The company seeded ~200k STBs during the quarter taking its digital base to 10.2 million.
News categories: DEN Networks, S N Sharma, Cable TV, India, Results, Subscribers

Worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast to grow 7.2% in 2017
Jan 23, 2017 – Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $364.1 billion in 2017, an increase of 7.2 percent from 2016, according to Gartner. This represents a turnaround for the semiconductor industry as the market experienced 1.5 percent growth in 2016.
News categories: Gartner, Ganesh Ramamoorthy, Market Research, Semiconductor, Worldwide

Market focus switching to live linear OTT video services
Jan 19, 2017 – Service providers are decreasing marketing on their cable, satellite, and IPTV products that offer managed quality of service in favor of new products that use over the top (OTT) technologies to compete with Amazon and Netflix.
News categories: ABI Research, Sam Rosen, Khin Sandi Lynn, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, USA, Worldwide

Worldwide semiconductor revenue grew 1.5% in 2016
Jan 18, 2017 – Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $339.7 billion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015 revenue of $334.8 billion, according to preliminary results from Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors' combined revenue increased by 7.9 percent compared with 2015.
News categories: Gartner, Adriana Blanco, Market Research, Semiconductor, Worldwide

15% of U.S. broadband households have antenna-only TV service
Jan 18, 2017 – Research from Parks Associates shows that the percentage of U.S. broadband households that use only antennas to receive TV has steadily increased since 2013 to reach 15%. This increase coincides with a drop in pay-TV subscriptions and an increase in Internet-only video subscriptions.
News categories: Parks Associates, Brett Sappington, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Terrestrial, USA

Sub-Saharan Africa pay TV thrives despite falling prices
Jan 16, 2017 – Digital TV Research estimates that three groups will continue to account for 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s pay TV subscribers. At end-2016, Multichoice had 11.61 million subscribers, well ahead of StarTimes with 4.18 million and Vivendi with 2.32 million.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Africa, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial