Europe Digital TV News

Comstar-United Telesystems OJSC Financial Results For 2008
Apr 9, 2009 – COMSTAR-UTS (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for 2008. In Moscow the number of broadband pay-TV subscribers was 145,000 and the number of pay-TV subscribers in the regions was 153,000. STREAM-TV's pay-TV subscriber base reached 1.8 million.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

50 Bidders for Digital TV Networks in Bulgaria
Apr 9, 2009 – Fifty companies have declared interest in bidding for the construction of national digital television networks in Bulgaria. The analogue television switch-off should be completed in December 2012.
News categories: Bulgaria, Digital TV, Regulation, Terrestrial

Spain begins pay-DTT licensing
Apr 8, 2009 – Private national television operators in Spain may now apply to the Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio to alter their broadcasting licence to allow them to offer digital terrestrial pay-TV services.
News categories: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Conditional Access, Spain, Terrestrial

France's analogue switch-off could be delayed to 2014
Apr 8, 2009 – France Télé Numérique has said that the current legally enshrined deadline of November 30, 2011 for analogue TV switch-off in France is not feasible, and that a new timetable, completing in 2013 or 2014, is needed.
News categories: France Télé Numérique, Digital TV, France, Regulation, Terrestrial

France's free DTT channels on satellite from June
Apr 8, 2009 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has announced the upcoming launch of France's free Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels via its ATLANTIC BIRD™ 3 satellite. The new offer, called FRANSAT™, will be available from June.
News categories: Eutelsat, FRANSAT, Digital TV, France, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Sky+ Remote Record now available on Apple iPhone
Apr 7, 2009 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has announced that its Sky+ Remote Record application is available from the Apple App Store. The free application enables iPhone users with a Sky+ or Sky+HD set-top box to set recordings wherever they are in the world.
News categories: BSkyB, Apple App Store, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Mobile, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK

Solaris Mobile satellite W2A successfully launched
Apr 6, 2009 – The satellite carrying Europe's first S-band payload - operated by Solaris Mobile - has been successfully launched. Solaris Mobile aims to provide fully digital mobile video, navigation and emergency assistance services to European operators.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Mobile, Satellite

Half of UK TV households choosing pay TV
Apr 6, 2009 – Almost half of all television households in the UK are now choosing to pay for access to additional television channels, with satellite and cable services driving growth of digital TV according to new research from Ofcom.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Hrvatski Telekom to launch MAXtv HD
Apr 3, 2009 – Croatia's T-Hrvatski Telekom (London: THTC; Zagreb: HT-R-A) has announced that it will add high defintion (HD) channels to its MAXtv IPTV service from May 2009, after a successful trial.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, Digital TV, IPTV