Europe Digital TV News

French Digital-TV-On-Satellite Offer TNTSAT Tops 750,000 Households
Nov 18, 2008 – SES ASTRA (Paris & Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that at end-October, 750,000 TNTSAT receivers had been distributed to French households. TNTSAT HD will be launched on 15 February 2009 with the free HD DTT channels available on ASTRA.
News categories: SES ASTRA, TNTSAT, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Com Hem to launch HD PVR
Nov 18, 2008 – On December 3rd, Com Hem will launch its recordable HD set-top box. The box - the HDPVR-1000C - is manufactured by Humax and has a 320GB hard disk and dual tuners.
News categories: Com Hem, Humax, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Sweden

ITV signs catch-up deal for BT Vision
Nov 17, 2008 – ITV (LSE:ITV) has signed a new agreement with BT (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) to supply a range of current and library programming to customers of BT's digital TV service, BT Vision - ITV's first deal of this type with a set top box VOD operator.
News categories: BT Vision, ITV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Streaming, UK

Telefónica earns €5,596 million to September and confirms all growth forecasts for 2008
Nov 14, 2008 – During the third quarter of 2008 Telefónica (Madrid, NYSE: TEF) maintained the intense commercial activity registered since the beginning of the year. Pay TV accesses stood at over 2.1 million at the end of the quarter, up 54.0% on the prior year.
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, IPTV, Peru, Results, Spain, Subscribers, Venezuela

Italy - September 2008 DTT decoder market report update
Nov 13, 2008 – The DGTVi publishes, in collaboration with GfK, a regular research report covering the development of the digital terrestrial market in Italy. The latest report is for the month of September 2008 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Com Hem January-September 2008 results
Nov 13, 2008 – In the first three quarters of 2008, Com Hem's revenues amounted to SEK 2,827 million. From the second to the third quarter of this year, the number of digital TV subscribers increased by over 5 percent to 450,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Vivendi (Canal+ Group) Third Quarter Earnings
Nov 13, 2008 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) revenues were €17,777 million compared to €15,643 million for the first nine months of 2007. Net Canal+ Group portfolio growth over the past 12 months amounted to approximately 40,000 subscriptions.
News categories: Vivendi, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Cyfrowy Polsat results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2008
Nov 13, 2008 – The number of Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw: CPS) subscribers grew by 42% to 2,402,524 as at 30 September 2008 - an increase of 115 thousand as compared to Q2 2008 and 335 thousand since the beginning of the year.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Portugal Telecom (Meo) 2008 first nine month results
Nov 13, 2008 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced its results for the first nine months ended 30 September 2008. YTD net additions to the 'Meo' pay-TV service reached 191 thousand to give 211 thousand customers at the end of September.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial