Europe Digital TV News

Kabel Deutschland Digital Pay TV up 10.9%
Feb 3, 2009 – Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced subscriber figures for its 2008/9 third quarter (October 1 to December 31). At the end of December, the subscription figure for KDG's Digital Pay TV offering was up 82,900 on the year before to 846,300.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, Germany, Subscribers

Germany's number of IPTV customers grows to over half a million
Feb 1, 2009 – According to BITKOM, the voice of the information technology, telecommunications, and new media industry in Germany, the number of IPTV subscribers in Germany at the end of 2008 was 536,000, up from 180,000 at the end of 2007.
News categories: BITKOM, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Subscribers

Telecom Liechtenstein to add TV to its Connecta broadband package
Jan 30, 2009 – Telecom Liechtenstein has signed a contract for the initial deployment of IPTV services to add to its Connecta broadband offering. The service is expected to launch in autumn 2009.
News categories: Telecom Liechtenstein, Ocilion, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Liechtenstein

ADB Receives DivX Certification™ for IPTV Set-Top Box
Jan 29, 2009 – DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX) has announced the DivX Certification™ of the ADB-3810TW IPTV set-top box (STB) from Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX: ADBN). The newly enhanced STB will be available throughout Europe.
News categories: DivX, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Media Player, Set Top Box, Streaming

Unitymedia Strong New Services Growth Continues
Jan 28, 2009 – Unitymedia's Digital TV Pay subscriber base grew 37,000 in the quarter to 568,000, up 25% year-on-year, driven by increasing digitisation of the basic cable subscriber base and enhanced pay TV packages.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

BSkyB Interim Results For The Six Months Ended 31 December 2008
Jan 28, 2009 – British Sky Broadcasting (LSE:BSY) DTH customer net additions were 171,000 in the three months to 31 December 2008, 2% higher year on year, taking our total base to 9.238 million customers.
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

Lattelecom Announces New-Generation TV
Jan 27, 2009 – The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers has decided that Lattelecom will be the provider of digital terrestrial television programming. Terrestrial broadcasts will be based on state-of-the-art technologies such as MPEG-4 compression.
News categories: Lattelecom, Digital TV, Latvia, Terrestrial

KPN solid full-year 2008 results
Jan 27, 2009 – KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) group revenues and other income in Q4 were up €59m to €3.7bn. At the end of Q4 2008, KPN had 775k TV (Digitenne DTT and IPTV) customers, of which around 40k were IPTV customers. In addition, KPN had 30k DVB-H subscribers.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

UK's Freeview+ Sales Up In The Downturn
Jan 27, 2009 – Freeview has announced that sales of Freeview+ PVR boxes have reached over 900,000, up 118% over December last year. 26% of all sales were achieved in a record final quarter. In December, more than two Freeview+ boxes were bought every minute.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK