EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Italy - March 2008 DTT decoder market report update
May 7, 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 March 2008 with historical data back to February 2004.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Are National Regulation Frameworks for Mobile TV ready?
May 7, 2008 – A study on terrestrial mobile broadcast TV by the bmcoforum has concluded that a significant number of countries are still lagging behind most advanced countries in defining the regulatory framework including the licensing conditions and processes.
News categories: bmcoforum, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA

News Corporation Reports Third Quarter
May 7, 2008 – News Corp. (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported third quarter net income of $2.7 billion. SKY Italia added more than 342,000 net subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.5 million at quarter end.
News categories: News Corp, Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

ZON announces 1Q08 Consolidated Results
May 7, 2008 – ZON's Pay TV customer base grew in 1Q08 by 13.4 thousand customers, representing 60.3% more net additions than in 1Q07 and digitally enabled subscribers continued to grow as a percentage of the Pay TV customer base to 26% compared with 20% in 1Q07.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Estonia - Levira starts DVB-H trial
May 7, 2008 – The Estonian national transmission company Levira has begun a DVB-H pilot in the capital, Tallinn.
News categories: Levira, Digital TV, Estonia, Mobile

France Telecom financial information - first quarter 2008
May 7, 2008 – France Telecom's Digital TV over ADSL services (IPTV) had 1.41 million subscribers in Europe at 31 March 2008 compared with 770,000 at 31 March 2007, an increase of 83%.
News categories: France Telecom, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Set Top Box, Spain, Subscribers

Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 7, 2008 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the first quarter. At March 31, 2008 total RGUs of 24.4 million included 14.7 million video and 5.6 million broadband subscribers.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Denmark - YouSee to launch 16 channels on Web TV
May 6, 2008 – YouSee has launched a Web TV product with access to 16 channels. TV content is streamed directly to the computer via a broadband connection. The service is protected with Microsoft's Windows Media DRM.
News categories: TDC, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, DRM, Streaming

Sonaecom informs on 1st quarter 2008 consolidated results
May 5, 2008 – During 1Q08, Sonaecom promoted the replacement, for free, of current customers' set top boxes for a new MPEG-4 model which will allow TV customers to access HD channels, DTT and to benefit from improved sound quality.
News categories: Sonaecom, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Set Top Box