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Bell Mobile TV welcomes one millionth subscriber
Sep 17, 2013 – Bell Canada (TSX, NYSE: BCE) has welcomed its one millionth subscriber to Bell Mobile TV, the wireless data service that offers on-the-go access to more than 40 channels of live and on-demand sports, news, entertainment and children's TV programming.
News categories: Bell Canada, Wade Oosterman, Canada, Digital TV, Mobile, Subscribers

Pay TV subscribers up 10.6% year-on-year in Chile in Q2
Sep 13, 2013 – Chile’s Subtel has released pay TV statistics to the end of June 2013. Versus the end of June 2012, satellite subscribers increased from 952,767 to 1,100,709 (up 15.5%) whereas wired (cable TV and IPTV) subscribers grew from 1,168,831 to 1,246,254 (up 6.6%).
News categories: Subtel, Cable TV, Chile, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

IPTV defies drop in US pay TV market to gain subscribers in Q2
Sep 13, 2013 – Amid a plunge in subscribers for cable and satellite providers, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) was the only segment of the U.S. pay-TV market to achieve growth in the second quarter, according to a new Television Intelligence report from IHS Inc.
News categories: IHS Inc, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

13.8% of Portugal's TV subscribers on optical fibre
Sep 13, 2013 – According to ANACOM, in Portugal at the end of 2nd quarter 2013, there were 3.14 million subscription TV service subscribers, 14 thousand more than in the previous quarter and 63 thousand more than in the same period of 2012.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

2013 4K TV panel shipments reach one million units in August
Sep 13, 2013 – According to the large-sized panel shipment survey by WitsView, large-sized TV panel shipment for August 2013 attained 70.11 million units. To the end of August, 2013 4K2K TV panel shipment accumulated to 1.22 million units
News categories: WitsView, Jeffy Chen, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

Worldwide total semiconductor market to grow 3% in 2013
Sep 12, 2013 – According to ABI Research, the worldwide semiconductor market is expected to grow 3% from 2012 to 2013. There has been sequential market growth from 1Q13 to 2Q13 and the vast majority of the top 20 vendors are expecting 3Q13 to grow revenues again.
News categories: ABI Research, Peter Cooney, Market Research, Semiconductor

Pay TV operators to dominate market for online subscription TV
Sep 12, 2013 – According to Strategy Analytics, pay TV operators will dominate the market for online subscription TV, heralding the end of the first phase of online viewing which saw the rise of on-demand specialists such as Netflix and YouTube.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Ed Barton, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming

Discovery Channel has widest distribution in Europe
Sep 11, 2013 – The Discovery Channel is the widest distributed network in Europe, according to a new report from Digital TV Research covering 270 international channels/networks across 212 major operators in 43 EMEA countries.
News categories: Digital TV, Digital TV Research Reports, Europe, Market Research

Media authorities release 2013 report on digitisation in Germany
Sep 10, 2013 – Germany's media authorities have released their ninth report on digitisation in the country. In mid-2013, some 19.2 per cent of German TV houses still watched analogue television only; around the same time last year, it was 22.2 per cent.
News categories: die medienanstalten, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial