Asia Digital TV News

Wuhan Starts HD Bi-Directional TV Services
Feb 8, 2010 – Wuhan Broadcasting Corporation has officially began broadcasts over its high-definition interactive next-generation television broadcasting (NGB) platform.
News categories: Wuhan Broadcasting, Cable TV, China, Middleware

SK broadband adds 46,000 IPTV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 5, 2010 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the fourth quarter of 2009. Subscribers to SK broadband's broad&tv IPTV service increased by 46,281 in the quarter to reach 856,001 at the end of the period.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Asia-Pac to Show 12% Annual Growth in Set-Top Box Shipments through 2014
Feb 4, 2010 – Set-top boxes are set to reach Asian consumers at an ever-increasing rate, according to new STB market data published by ABI Research with overall STB shipments in the region approaching 111 million in 2014.
News categories: ABI Research, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

StarHub adds 4k pay TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 4, 2010 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has reported 2009 fourth quarter and full year results. As at 31 December 2009, Pay TV subscriber base totaled 539K, a net addition of 4K for the quarter and 15K for the full year period.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Set Top Box, Singapore, Subscribers

Reliance Big TV ends 2009 with 2.23 million subscribers
Feb 1, 2010 – Reliance Communications (Bombay:532712) has releases its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Big TV currently has 2.23 million subscribers, about 12% of the DTH market in India within a short span of launch.
News categories: Big TV, Reliance Communications, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

CBC Targets 10 Million CMMB Users in 2010
Jan 29, 2010 – China Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) [formerly CSMBC] has announced that its goal is to attract 10 million users in 2010, with a target of 100 million mobile TV subscribers over the next five years.
News categories: China Broadcasting Corp, China, Mobile, Subscribers

KT adds 265,000 Qook TV subscribers in 4Q09
Jan 29, 2010 – KT Corporation (Korea Telecom) [KRX:030200/NYSE:KT] has released its 4th Quarter 2009 results. Qook TV (Mega TV as was) IPTV subscribers reached 1.172 million at the end of December 2009, up 265,000 in the quarter.
News categories: KT Corp, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global to Sell J:COM Interest to KDDI
Jan 24, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced that it has reached an agreement to sell the subsidiaries that hold its 37.8% ownership interest in Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (J:COM) to KDDI Corporation.
News categories: Liberty Global, J:COM, KDDI, Cable TV, Japan, MandA

Dishtv India adds 544 thousand subscribers in 4Q09
Jan 22, 2010 – Dish TV India (NSE: DISHTV EQ, BSE: 532839) added 0.55 million new gross subscribers during the quarter ended December 2009. As on December 31 2009, Dishtv had a gross subscriber base of 6.4 million and net subscriber base of 5.3 million.
News categories: Dishtv, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers