EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Lithuanian digital TV subscribers up 5% in 1Q10
May 20, 2010 – The Lithuanian Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) has announced preliminary first quarter 2010 communications market data. The number of digital TV subscribers continues to grow, up 5 percent in the quarter to 237.7 thousand.
News categories: RRT, Cable TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Russia Leads Eastern Europe in Set Top Box Shipment Growth
May 19, 2010 – Preliminary results from IMS Research's forthcoming 2010 study on The World Market for Set-top Boxes and iDTVs has revealed that nearly 26 percent of EMEA's digital STB shipments were deployed into Eastern Europe in 2009.
News categories: IMS Research, Czech Republic, Digital TV, DVR, Hungary, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Russia, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Easy TV withdraws from Irish pay DTT negotiations
May 18, 2010 – The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has been advised by the Easy TV consortium that it has decided to decline the BAI's offer to pursue negotiations for the provision of three Commercial DTT Multiplex Contracts.
News categories: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Digital TV, Ireland, Terrestrial

Antenna Hungária launches MinDig TV Extra pay DTT
May 18, 2010 – Antenna Hungária has launched a pay-tv service, branded as MinDig TV Extra, on its digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) platform as of May 25, 2010. The new service offers an additional ten popular thematic channels.
News categories: Antenna Hungária, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Hungary, Terrestrial

LOVEFiLM Now Streaming To Samsung TVs
May 17, 2010 – Samsung (KRX: 005930, 005935; LSE: SMSN, SMSD) and LOVEFiLM have launched the latest extension to LOVEFiLM's service in the direct-to-TV market on new ranges of Samsung TVs.
News categories: LOVEFiLM, Samsung, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Smart TV, Streaming, Sweden, UK

TDC adds 20k TV customers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – TDC (Copenhagen:TDC) has published financial statements for the January-March 2010 period. Since 1Q 2009, 38,000 new TV customers have joined YouSee. The customer base for the digital add-on product (YouSee Plus) increased by 31,000.
News categories: YouSee, TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Unitymedia adds 53k digital cable subscribers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – Unitymedia has provided information for the three months ended March 31, 2010. A highlight of the last twelve months has been the addition of 211,000 digital cable RGUs, of which 53,000 were in Q1 2010.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Belgacom TV adds 62,000 subscriptions in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – In the first quarter of 2010, Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) added 62,000 new Belgacom TV-customers resulting in a total customer base of 814,000 customers. Compared to one year ago Belgacom's TV customer base has grown by almost 50%.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Multimedia Polska adds 1.7k digital TV subscribers in Q1"²10
May 6, 2010 – The Multimedia Polska Group (Warsaw:MMP) has published its report for the three months ended 31 March 2010. At the end of the quarter the Group had 108,100 digital television subscribers in both technologies (DTV and IPTV).
News categories: Multimedia Polska, Cable TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers