Europe Digital TV News

Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
May 5, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The company added 216,000 RGUs in the first quarter of 2009, driven by strong growth in advanced services, especially digital cable.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Virgin Media adds 41,400 digital TV subscribers in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Total TV net additions were 30,600 in the quarter. At the quarter-end, the company had 611,900 V+ DVR subscribers, a 17% penetration of digital subscribers.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

Telenor (Canal Digital) subscribers fall in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 17,000 and the number of Telenor cable subscribers fell by 7,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

STRONG signs with Canal+ for CANAL READY receivers
May 5, 2009 – The STRONG Group has signed an agreement with the CANAL+ Group that will allow it to label its satellite receivers 'CANAL READY', i.e. compatible with the services of the leading French pay-TV operator.
News categories: STRONG, CANAL+ Group, France, Satellite, Set Top Box

Continued growth for Com Hem in the first quarter of 2009
May 4, 2009 – In the first quarter of 2009 revenues for Com Hem amounted to 1,003 MSEK, an increase of approximately 6 percent compared with the same period in 2008. During the period, the number of Digital TV subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 487,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

37% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
May 4, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the fourth quarter 2008. At the end of the period, 37% of ADSL subscribers, or 6.2 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Subscribers

BSkyB adds 80k subscribers in quarter to end-March
May 1, 2009 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) net customer additions for the quarter ended 31 March 2009 were 80,000 taking the total base to 9.318 million. Gross customer additions were 13% higher year-on-year at 327,000 and churn was 10.6%.
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

HD content comes to BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media
May 1, 2009 – The BBC and Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) have announced the launch of High Definition (HD) content on BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media.
News categories: Virgin Media, BBC iPlayer, Cable TV, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Spain's DIGITAL+ subscribers down 34 thousand in Q1
Apr 30, 2009 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for the period January-March 2009. The subscriber base of DIGITAL+, Sogecable's Spanish satellite platform, was 2,001,000 at quarter end, down from 2,035,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: PRISA, DIGITAL+, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers