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ONO fourth quarter and full year 2008 results
Mar 12, 2009 – Spain's ONO has announced results for the fourth quarter ended 31 December 2008. Cable television customers increased by 79,000 or 8.2% in the last twelve months, reaching 1,039,000 as of 31 December 2008.
News categories: Grupo Corporativo ONO, Cable TV, Results, Spain, Subscribers

ASTRA Extends Digital Reach in Germany
Mar 12, 2009 – SES ASTRA (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) has announced that it has confirmed its leading role in digitalisation and increased the number of digital TV homes reached by the ASTRA satellite system in Germany by 1.35 million (13.9 percent) to 11.1 million.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Western European Digital TV Breaks Through 100 Million Mark in 2008
Mar 12, 2009 – In what was a record year for digital television subscriber growth, Western European digital television subscriptions broke through the 100 million household mark in 2008, according to a new report by analyst firm Strategy Analytics.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

U.S. Pay-TV Market Defies the Recession
Mar 11, 2009 – The economic downturn has not stopped growth in the U.S. pay-TV market, according to a study by Rider Research. The number of U.S. pay-TV subscribers grew by 362,000 during the fourth quarter of 2008.
News categories: Rider Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, USA

Surging IPTV Subscriber Base Drives Set-top Box Sales in Q4 2008
Mar 11, 2009 – Dell'Oro Group has reported that the IPTV subscriber base grew by 3.2 million in the fourth quarter to reach 23 million subscribers at the end of last year, nearly double the number at the end of 2007.
News categories: Dell'Oro, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Spain - March DTT monthly update released
Mar 11, 2009 – According to Impulsa-TDT, January sales of DTV tuners in Spain once again exceeded one million units (1,123,439). The total volume of DTT receivers sold since 2003 is now over 16.3 million units.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, DVD, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Broadband CPE market dips in 4Q08
Mar 9, 2009 – A slowdown in broadband subscriber growth caused manufacturer revenue to decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. The bright spot continues to be the digital home gateway segment, as telcos use them to bundle IPTV into broadband services.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Broadband, CPE, Gateway, IPTV, Market Research

Germany: CE Market Index CEMIX Q1-Q4 2008
Mar 9, 2009 – Results from Q1-Q4 2008 of the Consumer Electronics Market Index (CEMIX), a German market indicator for Consumer Electronics markets, are available for download.
News categories: GfK Retail and Technology, DVD, Gaming, Germany, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Peripherals / Accessories, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

HanseNet to deploy Sagem PVR
Mar 6, 2009 – HanseNet, a German subsidiary of Telecom Italia (Milan:TIT, NYSE:TI), is planning to make a new IPTV set-top box (STB) available to its Alice TV customers in the first half of 2009. The STB is a personal video recorder (PVR) supplied by Sagem.
News categories: HanseNet, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, IPTV, Set Top Box, Subscribers