Europe Digital TV News

BSkyB launches £9.99 NOW TV HDMI dongle
Jul 26, 2013 – The £9.99 (~$15) NOW TV Box measures 84mm x 84mm x 24mm, plugs into a TV set via HDMI, and connects to the internet over the user's wireless home network. NOW TV offers terrestrial catch-up, pay-as-you-go sport and movies on demand.
News categories: BSkyB, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

BSkyB results for the twelve months ended 30 June 2013
Jul 26, 2013 – British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (LSE:BSY) has released unaudited results for the twelve months ended 30 June 2013. Sky added another 117,000 HD customers and 122,000 Sky Go Extra customers in the quarter.
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

Canal+ Spain subscribers down another 59,500 in 2Q 2013
Jul 25, 2013 – Grupo Prisa has announced financial results for the first half of 2013. Canal+ Spain's satellite subscribers fell by 88,119 in the first half. Despite this, its market share grew because of higher falls at other operators.
News categories: Grupo PRISA, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Spain, Subscribers

BT adds 23,000 TV customers in 2Q 2013
Jul 25, 2013 – BT Group plc (BT.L) today announced its results for the first quarter to 30 June 2013. BT's TV net additions were 23,000 taking the customer base to 833,000.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

UK's TalkTalk adds 160,000 YouView subscribers in 2Q 2013
Jul 24, 2013 – TalkTalk signed up 160,000 new TV subscribers to its YouView service in the three months to end June taking the total number of TV customers on the company's network to 390,000 in that period.
News categories: TalkTalk, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

UK's Freesat adds 145,000 homes in the last 12 months
Jul 24, 2013 – Freesat, the UK's free-to-air digital satellite television provider, has reported its 21st quarter of consecutive growth, adding 145,000 homes to the service in the last twelve months.
News categories: Freesat, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK

KPN adds 0.2 million IPTV subscriber in 1H 2013
Jul 23, 2013 – KPN has published its 2013 half year results. KPN's IPTV proposition resulted in another quarter of strong IPTV net adds (82k) leading to a TV market share of 24%, an increase of 5%-points y-on-y. ARPU per customer increased by 7.7% y-on-y to EUR 42 in Q2 2013.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Canal Digital DTH down 3 thousand subscribers in 2Q 2013
Jul 23, 2013 – Telenor Group has reported results for the second quarter of 2013. The company finished the period with 934,000 subscribers to its Canal Digital pay TV services, down from 945,000 at the end of 2012 and down 3 thousand in the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Spain's pay TV subscriber base drops below 4 million in Q1 2013
Jul 22, 2013 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the country for the first quarter of 2013. Total pay TV subscribers dropped below 4 million at the end of the quarter, down from around 4.4 million at the same point in 2012.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial