Europe Digital TV News

S&T brings interactive content to Freeview HD with Humax
Feb 22, 2010 – Strategy & Technology (S&T) has announced that its RedKey™ 2 MHEG engine is powering the text and interactive services in the new Humax Freeview HD set-top box.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Humax, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Middleware, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

DIGITAL+ in Spain down 189k subscribers in 2009
Feb 19, 2010 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for 2009. The total number of Digital+ subscribers as of December 31, 2009, was 1,845,805 down 53,400 from the end of September 2009.
News categories: Sogecable, PRISA, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Switching to Digital TV in Russia and Ukraine
Feb 19, 2010 – The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has published a new report on the work in progress to prepare the switch-over process in Russia and Ukraine.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, Digital TV, Market Research, Russia, Terrestrial, Ukraine

Telenet concludes DTT transmission agreement with Norkring
Feb 18, 2010 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has signed an agreement with Norkring België concerning the use of capacity on the latter's broadcasting infrastructure. This will enable Telenet to offer digital terrestrial TV and radio in Flanders and Brussels.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Nagravision licenses conditional access to CAM maker E-DOMUS
Feb 18, 2010 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced that it has signed a license agreement with E-DOMUS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED enabling it to produce and market Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) integrating Nagravision's Conditional Access Systems (CAS).
News categories: Nagravision, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain

Poland's 'n' DTH adds 120k post-paid in 4Q09
Feb 18, 2010 – TVN Group has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009. The 'n' DTH platform reached 692 thousand active subscribers as of the end of 2009, up by over 120 thousand in the fourth quarter.
News categories: TVN Group, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Swisscom TV adds 44k subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 18, 2010 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its Annual Report for 2009. The number of Swisscom TV customers almost doubled in the space of a year to end 2009 at 230,000.
News categories: Swisscom, Fastweb, IPTV, Italy, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Switzerland

Com Hem adds 31k digital TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 17, 2010 – Com Hem has reported results for 2009. During the fourth quarter of 2009, the number of digital television subscriptions increased by 31,100 (6 percent) to 575,800 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

France: CSA sets HD DTT timetable
Feb 17, 2010 – France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has set a new timetable for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in high definition on multiplex R5, covering services from TF1 HD, France 2 HD et M6 HD.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Digital TV, France, Terrestrial