EU (European Union) Digital TV News

DT Germany sells 164,000 IPTV packages in 3Q09
Nov 5, 2009 – Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released results for the third quarter. Entertain, DT's IPTV service in Germany, had sold 885,000 packages by the end of the quarter, well on the way to the target of one million for the full year.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

Sky Italia subscriber base remains at 4.8 million
Nov 4, 2009 – News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. SKY Italia's 4.8 million subscriber base remained unchanged during the period.
News categories: SKY Italia, News Corp, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

UPC adds over 400,000 DVR cable RGUs in the last twelve months
Nov 4, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. In the last twelve months, digital cable RGUs have grown by 42% or 1.9 million, to give a digital penetration of 45%.
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

TCL to launch TVs with integrated CANALPLAY VOD
Nov 4, 2009 – Le Groupe Canal+ (Paris:VIV) and TCL (Shenzhen:000100) have announced an agreement to launch televisions from Thomson with built-in direct access to CANALPLAY video-on-demand.
News categories: TCL Corp, CANAL+, Digital TV, France, Smart TV, Streaming

Poland's 'n' DTH adds 17k post-paid in 3Q09
Nov 3, 2009 – TVN Group has announced its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009. At quarter-end, the 'n' DTH platform had signed up almost 573,000 post paid subscribers, of which over 571,000 had been activated.
News categories: TVN Group, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

44% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
Nov 3, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the second quarter 2009.At the end of the period, 44% of ADSL subscribers, or 7.7 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Philips retails Pace set top boxes for CANAL+ Group
Nov 2, 2009 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced the retail launch of its new range of CANAL+ (Paris:VIV) set-top boxes. All the devices are 'CANAL READY', meaning consumers can access free-to-air digital broadcasts with the option to upgrade to pay-TV.
News categories: Pace plc, CANAL+, Conditional Access, Digital TV, France, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

T-Hrvatski Telekom MAXtv adds 19,000 subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 30, 2009 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the first nine months of 2009. MAXtv, T-HT's IPTV service now has approximately 190,000 subscribers with nearly 19,000 net adds in Q3 2009.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Cogeco latest quarter shows 10k digital TV adds in Canada and 23k in Portugal
Oct 30, 2009 – Cogeco Cable (TSX: CCA) has announced results for the fourth quarter and 2009 fiscal year ended August 31, 2009. In the quarter, digital TV net additions stood at 9,674 customers in Canada with 23,456 added by Cabovisão in Portugal.
News categories: Cogeco, Cabovisão, Cable TV, Canada, Portugal, Results, Subscribers