Europe Digital TV News

Freesat celebrates 3 million sales with YouTube launch
Feb 11, 2013 – Freesat has announced that it has sold its 3 millionth product, taking gross retail sales to well over £1bn; four years after the service first launched in 2008. YouTube will soon be available on the platform, in a first for free British TV.
News categories: Freesat, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Verimatrix Chosen to Secure Russia's Free Internet Service Ivi.ru
Feb 11, 2013 – Verimatrix has announced that Ivi.ru, the largest and most popular free Internet cinema in Russia, has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority (VCAS™) for Internet TV to provide security for its over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand (VoD) service.
News categories: Verimatrix, Ivi.ru, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, Russia, Streaming

Swisscom adds 183,000 TV customers in 2012
Feb 7, 2013 – Swisscom has released its results report for 2012. The number of Swisscom TV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 to 791,000 (+63,000 in the fourth quarter). Fastweb's bundled TV and broadband offering in partnership with Sky Italia has attracted 151,000 customers to date.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Sky Italia subscribers down 28,000 in 4Q 2012
Feb 6, 2013 – News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported results for the three months ending December 31, 2012. SKY Italia experienced a net reduction of approximately 28,000 subscribers during the quarter, bringing total subscribers to 4.83 million.
News categories: Sky Italia, News Corp, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Virgin Media Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2012 Results
Feb 6, 2013 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) has announced results for the year and quarter ended December 31, 2012. Virgin Media added 896,900 more TiVo customers during 2012, including 187,300 in the fourth quarter to reach a total of 1.33m or 35% of its TV customer base.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, UK

Liberty Global to Acquire Virgin Media
Feb 6, 2013 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) and Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) have announced that they have entered into an agreement pursuant to which Liberty Global will acquire Virgin Media in a stock and cash merger valued at approximately $23.3 billion.
News categories: Liberty Global, Virgin Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, MandA, UK

KPN Belgium launches 'SNOW' digital TV, internet and fixed-line telephony
Feb 5, 2013 – KPN has launched SNOW, a new brand with which the company aims to carve out a position as a challenger in the market for digital television, internet and fixed-line telephony in Belgium, starting from 7 February.
News categories: KPN, SNOW, Belgium, Digital TV, IPTV

One million IPTV subscribers for KPN at end-2012
Feb 5, 2013 – KPN has published its fourth quarter and annual results for 2012. KPN's IPTV proposition supported continued growth of IPTV net adds (183k in Q4 2012). This resulted in a TV market share of 23%, an increase of 6%-points compared to Q4 2011.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

SES: HD+ Passes One Million Paying Households
Feb 5, 2013 – SES (Paris;LuxX:SESG) has announced that its German HD platform HD+ now exceeds one million paying households. For the full year of 2012, HD+ more than doubled the number of paying customers, from 404,123 to 944,993.
News categories: SES S.A, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite, Subscribers