Europe Digital TV News

TalkTalk connects 80,000 TV subscribers in first three months since launch
Feb 5, 2013 – TalkTalk has released results for the third quarter of its 2012/13 financial year. The launch of TalkTalk's TV proposition saw 80,000 subscribers connected in the first three months. Installation capacity has been increased to 10,000 per week.
News categories: TalkTalk, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, UK

60,000 BT Vision customers with YouView set-top boxes
Feb 1, 2013 – BT Group (BT.L) has announced its results for the third quarter and nine months to 31 December 2012. BT added 21,000 BT Vision customers in the quarter to give a total of 770,000 subscribers. It has over 60,000 customers with a YouView box.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

RSCC Picks Irdeto to Protect New Direct-to-Operator Satellite Services
Jan 31, 2013 – Irdeto has announced that Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) has selected Irdeto as a main provider of media protection solutions to secure the content of the commercial TV channels distributed via RSCC satellites.
News categories: Irdeto, RSCC, Content Protection, CSTB, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite

TeliaSonera adds 155,000 TV subscribers in 2012
Jan 31, 2013 – Teliasonera has released its year-end report for the January-December 2012 period. The total number of TV subscriptions increased by 155,000 from the fourth quarter of 2011 and by 43,000 during the quarter to 1.3 million.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

BSkyB results for the six months ended 31 December 2012
Jan 31, 2013 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has released results for the six months ended 31 December 2012. In TV, Sky added 50,000 new customers in the quarter. Of these, 25,000 are subscribers to its new internet TV service NOW TV.
News categories: BSkyB, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

Russia's MegaFon deploys Verimatrix VCAS for IPTV and OTT services
Jan 25, 2013 – Verimatrix has announced the deployment of a multi-network Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) solution to secure MegaFon's combined IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) video services.
News categories: Verimatrix, MegaFon, MegaLabs, Conditional Access, Content Protection, CSTB, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Streaming

Zappware delivers multi-device end-to-end OTT solution to SBB and Telemach
Jan 24, 2013 – Zappware has announced that it has delivered a complete end-to-end OTT platform to Serbian cable operator SBB, and to Telemach, the leading cable operator in Slovenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. The platform supports linear and non-linear TV on a broad range of mobile and fixed devices.
News categories: Zappware, SBB, Telemach, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Middleware, Serbia, TV Everywhere

Ziggo loses 27,000 digital pay TV subscribers in 4Q 2012
Jan 24, 2013 – Ziggo N.V. has released full-year and Q4 2012 results. Digital Pay TV revenue increased through an ARPU increase and a strong uptake of VOD, partly offset by a 27,000 decline in subscribers.
News categories: Ziggo, Cable TV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers

MagtiSat adds fourth ASTRA transponder for Georgia
Jan 24, 2013 – SES (Paris;LuxX:SESG) has announced that MagtiCom has signed an agreement for a fourth transponder at the ASTRA 31.5°E orbital position after the first year of operations of MagtiSat, Georgia's first domestic DTH satellite platform.
News categories: SES S.A, MagtiSat, Content Distribution, DVB-S2, Georgia, Satellite