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French TNTSAT: Three Million Receivers Sold
Sep 21, 2011 – SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, reached a total of three million receivers sold at the end of August. The TNTSAT offer was launched in March 2007.
News categories: TNTSAT, SES S.A., Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

40 Percent of Pay TV Cord Cutters Would Pay More for A La Carte
Sep 20, 2011 – Collectively, US Pay TV providers lost 400,000 subscribers in the second quarter--their single worst period in over three years. Cable TV took the brunt of the hit, though Satellite operators were not left unscathed.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, USA

IBC Announcements Confirm Strong Gateway Trend
Sep 19, 2011 – The number of new television gateways and related applications unveiled at the recent IBC exhibition confirms a new direction for the set-top box (STB) industry and digital TV as a whole, according to IMS Research.
News categories: IMS Research, DVR, Gateway, IBCShow, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Digital TV in 36.3% of TV households in Lithuania
Sep 14, 2011 – According to market research firm TNS, at the end of the first half of 2011, multi-channel TV was being received in 69.4% of Lithuanian TV households up 7 percentage points since the beginning of the year.
News categories: TNS, Cable TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

US Pay-TV Market Shows Resilience in Q2
Sep 9, 2011 – Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter was a strong period for the U.S. pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising robustly due to expanding broadband and telephony segments, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS).
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Set-top Box market to peak in 2011
Sep 7, 2011 – Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its second quarter 2011 (2Q11) Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers market share and forecast report.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming

Defying Cord Cutting Craze, European Union Cable Market Expands in 2010
Sep 7, 2011 – The European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the EU rising by nearly 8% for the year on the strength of double-digit growth in digital TV, broadband and telephony subscribers, according to Screen Digest (NYSE: IHS).
News categories: Screen Digest, Cable TV, Digital TV, EU, Market Research, Subscribers

UK's Freesat surges ahead with 2 million sales
Sep 7, 2011 – Freesat has announced that it has sold its 2 millionth unit, far exceeding original sales projections made when the company launched three years ago, and taking gross retail sales to nearly £1 billion since launch in 2008.
News categories: Freesat, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK

SES: Satellite Further Increases Technical Reach in Germany
Sep 6, 2011 – SES S.A. (Paris; LuxX:SESG) has announced that satellite has further increased its technical reach in Germany, its largest single market. According to the research, 17.1 million German households now watch television directly via satellite.
News categories: SES S.A., Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial