Europe Digital TV News

Project Canvas submits technical documents to DTG
May 7, 2010 – Project Canvas has submitted key documents to the Digital Television Group (DTG) making the next set of technical specifications available to industry.
News categories: Project Canvas, Digital TV Group, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, UK

Multimedia Polska adds 1.7k digital TV subscribers in Q1"²10
May 6, 2010 – The Multimedia Polska Group (Warsaw:MMP) has published its report for the three months ended 31 March 2010. At the end of the quarter the Group had 108,100 digital television subscribers in both technologies (DTV and IPTV).
News categories: Multimedia Polska, Cable TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global adds 286k digital cable and loses 5k DTH subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter 2010. Digital cable was the strongest product with 286,000 organic additions to give 6.0 million digital cable RGUs at the end of the period.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Com Hem adds 16k digital TV subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Com Hem has reported results for the first quarter of 2010. During the quarter the number of digital television subscriptions increased by 16,200 (3 percent) to 592,000 subscriptions, an increase of 105,400 since the end of the first quarter of 2009.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Portugal Telecom meo TV adds 65k subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for its first quarter ended 31 March 2010. In 1Q10 pay-TV accounted for 65 thousand net additions, bringing total pay-TV customers to 646 thousand (up by 68.1% y.o.y).
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Metaverse, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

Swisscom TV adds 45k subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its 2010 first quarter results. The number of Swisscom TV customers almost doubled in the space of a year to 275,000 at the end of March 2010, up 45,000 in the quarter.
News categories: Swisscom, Fastweb, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

DVB-T penetration reaches 6% of Hungarian households in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – A 33% growth was recorded in the number of DVB-T MPEG-4 compatible receivers in Hungarian households during the first quarter of 2010 compared with the previous quarter. At the end of March, 6% of the Hungarian households had a DVB-T ready receiver.
News categories: Antenna Hungária, GfK, Hungary, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Iliad (Free/Alice) adds 48k ADSL subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – At 31 March 2010, the Iliad Group (Paris: ILD) totalled more than 4.5 million ADSL subscribers, including 3,866,000 subscribers registered under the Free brand and 638,000 subscribers under the Alice brand.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Canal Digital DTH and Cable TV subscribers down 14,000 in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2010. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 6,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 8,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial