Europe Digital TV News

TEO LT TV subscribers up 1.8% over 2013
Jan 29, 2014 – TEO LT has released financial results for 2013. The number of IPTV customers grew 12.2% year-on-year, compensating for the loss of DTT customers which fell by 11.4%.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

BBC iPlayer saw a record three billion programme requests in 2013
Jan 29, 2014 – BBC iPlayer saw a record three billion programme requests in 2013 – up 33 per cent on 2012, with 2.2 billion requests for BBC TV shows and 800m BBC radio requests across all platforms.
News categories: BBC iPlayer, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Tablet, UK

Hungary adds 212,000 digital TV subscribers in 2013
Jan 28, 2014 – According to the latest Flash Report released by Hungary’s Office of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority, at the end of 2013 the number of digital TV subscribers was 2,048,811, up from 1,836,428 in December 2012.
News categories: NMHH, Cable TV, Hungary, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Tricolor TV adds 2.2 million customers in 2013
Jan 28, 2014 – Russia’s Tricolor TV has announced that it ended the year with 14.1 million customers up 2.2 million over the year. More than 10 million are paying customers and 3.1 million are owners of HD receiving equipment.
News categories: Tricolor TV, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Just under six in ten UK adults receive pay TV
Jan 28, 2014 – Ofcom has published its eighth annual report on the consumer experience of telecoms, the internet, digital broadcasting and postal services in the United Kingdom.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, UK

Ziggo adds 6,000 digital TV subscribers in Q4 2013
Jan 24, 2014 – Ziggo has released Q4 2013 results. Subscribers to consumer digital Pay TV recovered slightly with a limited subscriber growth of 6,000 during the quarter versus a decline in the prior-year quarter and the first quarters of 2013.
News categories: Ziggo, Cable TV, CAM, Netherlands, Results, Smart TV, Subscribers

Teracom and Broadcom collaborate on Ultra HD broadcast demonstration
Jan 24, 2014 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced that Teracom, a provider of terrestrial network operations in Sweden and Denmark, has selected Broadcom silicon to demonstrate 4K Ultra HD and DVB-T2 broadcast capabilities with Boxer TV.
News categories: Broadcom, Teracom, Håkan Axén, Aidan O'Rourke, Denmark, DVB-T2, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Sweden, Terrestrial

Netflix releases fourth-quarter 2013 results
Jan 22, 2014 – Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has released its fourth-quarter 2013 financial results. The company ended 2013 with over 44 million members with higher domestic net additions than in 2012 and growing international success.
News categories: Netflix, Digital TV, DVD, Europe, Latin America, North America, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, USA

100,000 subscribers for Georgia's MagtiSat
Jan 22, 2014 – SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) and MagtiCom have announced that after 2 years of operating MagtiSat, the first domestic DTH platform in Georgia, the company already has more than 100,000 subscribers.
News categories: MagtiCom, SES S.A, Irakli Lobzhanidze, Håkan Sjödin, Digital TV, Georgia, Satellite, Subscribers