India Digital TV News

Reliance Big TV subscribers unchanged at 5 million
Nov 16, 2016 – Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. Reliance Digital TV currently has about 5.0 million subscribers, with 6% share of the DTH market in India.
News categories: Reliance Communications, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Videocon D2H to merge with Dish TV India
Nov 11, 2016 – The Board of Directors of Dish TV (NSE: DISHTV) and Videocon d2h (NASDAQ: VDTH) have approved a scheme of arrangement for the amalgamation of Vd2h into Dish TV and the execution of definitive agreements in relation to such amalgamation.
News categories: Dish TV India, Videocon d2h, Jawahar Lal Goel, Saurabh Dhoot, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, MandA, Satellite

Dish TV India adds 259,000 subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 28, 2016 – Dish TV India (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported its second quarter fiscal 2017 results. The company added 259 thousand subscribers during the quarter to close with a subscriber base of 15.1 million.
News categories: Dish TV India, India, Results, Satellite

Videocon d2h adds 0.23 million net subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 26, 2016 – Videocon d2h (NASDAQ: VDTH) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The company added 0.59 million gross subscribers and 0.23 million net subscribers during the second quarter of fiscal 2017.
News categories: Videocon d2h, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 256,000 subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 25, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2016. DTH had 12.4 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 17.3% compared with the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

India's GSAT-18 satellite successfully launched
Oct 6, 2016 – India’s communication satellite GSAT-18 was launched successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-231 launch Vehicle. The 3404 kg GSAT-18 carries 48 communication transponders in C-band, upper extended C-band and Ku-bandy.
News categories: ISRO, Ariane, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Satellite

Reliance Big TV subscribers still at 5.0 million
Sep 15, 2016 – Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2016. Reliance Digital TV currently has about 5.0 million subscribers, with 6% share of the DTH market in India.
News categories: Reliance Communications, Digital TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Sunny Digital selects Verimatrix security for cable TV expansion
Sep 7, 2016 – Verimatrix has announced that Sunny Digital Home Entertainment has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for DVB to provide revenue security for its digital cable service expansion in Telangana state.
News categories: Verimatrix, Steve Oetegenn, Y.S. Krishna, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, IBCShow, India

Dish TV India and SITI Cable select Conax Cardless content protection
Sep 6, 2016 – Conax has announced that Dish TV India and SITI Cable have selected Conax (for Cardless content protection) as one of the key partners for their pay-TV expansion in the region.
News categories: Conax, Dish TV India, SITI Cable, Morten Solbakken, Jawahar Goel, V S Wadhwa, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box