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Swiss cable TV subscribers down 1.8% in 2014
Mar 5, 2015 – According to figures from Swisscable, the sectoral association for cable TV companies in Switzerland, the number of cable TV subscribers in the country at the end of December 2014 was 2.6428 million, down 1.8%, versus the end of December 2013.
News categories: Swisscable, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Subscribers, Switzerland

Time Warner Cable TWC TV app comes to Xbox One
Mar 4, 2015 – Time Warner Cable has announced an agreement with Microsoft to bring its TWC TV app to the Xbox One. Time Warner Cable video subscribers who have an Xbox Live account will have access to 7,000 free and subscription On Demand titles within their homes.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Xbox, Apps, Cable TV, Gaming, USA

U.S. pay-TV providers lost 125,000 subscribers in 2014
Mar 3, 2015 – Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the thirteen largest pay-TV providers in the US -- representing about 95% of the market -- lost about 125,000 net video subscribers in 2014. Annual net pay-TV losses in 2014 were comparable to 2013, when the same top pay-TV providers lost about 95,000 subscribers.
News categories: Leichtman Research, Bruce Leichtman, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Spain's ONO to upgrade to latest TiVo APIs
Mar 2, 2015 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) has announced that, after the acquisition of ONO by Vodafone Spain, ONO's Intelligent TV service will be expanded in Spain and TiVo's platform will be upgraded to take advantage of TiVo's latest generation of capabilities.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Vodafone, David Sandford, Patricia Ferruz, Cable TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Spain

Pay DTT up 52% year-on-year in Croatia
Feb 26, 2015 – The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM) has reported communications market data to the end of the fourth quarter of 2014. Pay DTT (EvoTV) was the fastest growing TV segment with subscriptions rising by over 52% year-on-year.
News categories: HAKOM, Cable TV, Croatia, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Deutsche Telekom adds 109,000 TV customers in 4Q 2014
Feb 26, 2015 – Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released its fourth quarter 2014 results report. The company added 65 thousand TV customers in Germany during the final quarter. In the same period DT’s other European businesses gained 44 thousand TV customers.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Cable TV, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

TDS Telecom adds 4,000 TV subscribers in 4Q 2014
Feb 25, 2015 – Telephone and Data Systems (NYSE:TDS) has reported results for the fourth quarter of 2014. TDS Telecom finished the year with 23,400 IPTV subscribers, up 2,700 in the quarter. Video connections via cable ended the year at 110,400, up 1,300 in the same period.
News categories: TDS Telecom, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

StarHub adds 3,000 pay TV customers in 4Q 2014
Feb 25, 2015 – Singapore's StarHub has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2014. The company's pay TV customer base was 3,000 higher in the quarter and 9,000 higher year-on-year finishing at 542,000 households.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

GameTree TV games for Liberty Global Horizon STBs
Feb 24, 2015 – TransGaming (TSX VENTURE:TNG) has announced a partnership to bring its GameTree TV on-demand TV games to Liberty Global's Horizon cable set-top boxes. GameTree TV will now be available throughout most of Europe.
News categories: TransGaming, Liberty Global, Dennis Ensing, Apps, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Set Top Box, Switzerland