Europe Digital TV News

Elion adds 6k IP and cable-TV customers in 3Q09
Oct 22, 2009 – Eesti Telekom (Tallinn: ETLAT) has released results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2009. The number of Elion IP and cable-TV customers increased by 6,000 in the third quarter reaching 94.4 thousand as of 30 September.
News categories: Elion, Eesti Telekom, Cable TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Spain's DIGITAL+ still losing subscribers
Oct 22, 2009 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for the period January-September 2009. DIGITAL+, Sogecable's Spanish satellite platform, had 1,899,216 subscribers at 30th September, 2009.
News categories: PRISA, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Viasat adds 27,000 premium pay-TV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 21, 2009 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the period ended 30 September 2009. For the quarter, Viasat added 24,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 3,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Comstar launches IPTV in Moscow Region
Oct 21, 2009 – COMSTAR - United TeleSystems JSC (Comstar UTS) [LSE: CMST], the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, has announced the expansion of its IPTV service to the region around Moscow.
News categories: COMSTAR, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia

Meo surpasses 500 thousand customers
Oct 21, 2009 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, surpassed 500 thousand customers, representing circa 64% of PT's ADSL customers and 19% of its traffic generating lines, at the end of 2Q09.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

BBC issues guidelines for iPlayer porting
Oct 20, 2009 – The BBC has published new guidelines that outline how potential partners can syndicate the standard iPlayer product. They also lay out the scope for BBC investment in customisation and bespoke development for larger platforms.
News categories: BBC iPlayer, Digital TV, Media Player, Streaming, UK

Digital Fly DTH begins test broadcasting in the Ukraine
Oct 20, 2009 – Ukraine's Digital Fly has begun test broadcasting of its digital TV service on satellite Thor 3 with the commercial launch expected to take place on November 15th this year.
News categories: Digital Fly, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, Satellite, Ukraine

Record sales of digital satellite receivers in Germany
Oct 19, 2009 – According to the latest figures from GfK released by ASTRA Deutschland, in the first eight months of 2009, nearly 1.5 million digital satellite receiver were sold in Germany with a value of around 167 million euros.
News categories: ASTRA, GfK, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Sky Italia to offer DVB-T USB stick for its HD STBs
Oct 19, 2009 – Sky Italia (NASDAQ and ASX: NWS) is planning to launch a DVB-T USB stick which will allow Sky HD and My Sky HD users to receive the free RAI and Mediaset channels that, since the launch of TivùSat, are no longer being broadcast by Sky Italia.
News categories: Sky Italia, Digital TV, DVR, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial