North America Digital TV News

Farmers Telephone selects Motorola for IPTV Deployment
Nov 9, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will provide Farmers Telephone with its VIP1200 Series of IP set-tops and Microsoft's Mediaroom video services platform, as well as systems integration professional services support.
News categories: Motorola, Farmers Telephone, Kevin Wirick, Brad Erwin, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

DISH Network adds 241,000 net subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 9, 2009 – DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009. DISH Network gained approximately 241,000 net subscribers during the quarter, ending with approximately 13.851 million subscribers.
News categories: DISH Network, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Videotron illico Digital TV adds record 52k subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 5, 2009 – Videotron (TSX: QBR.A, QBR.B) has report results for the quarter ending September 30, 2009. The illico Digital TV service had an increase of 52,100 subscribers during the quarter, bringing the total to 1,042,400 households and businesses.
News categories: Videotron, Cable TV, Canada, Results, Subscribers

Consolidated Communications adds 1.8k IPTV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 5, 2009 – Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq:CNSL) has reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. At the end of the period, IPTV subscribers were 21,518, an increase of 6,064, or 39.2% compared to September 30, 2008.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

CenturyLink (CenturyTel/EMBARQ) Reports Third Quarter Earnings
Nov 5, 2009 – CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has announced results for third quarter 2009, which include the effect of the Embarq acquisition completed July 1, 2009. In the quarter, video subscribers as a percentage of primary residential lines were approximately 11%.
News categories: CenturyLink, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

DIRECTV U.S. up 136,000 subscribers and DTVLA up 162,000 in 3Q09
Nov 5, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported third quarter 2009 results. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 136,000 to give 18.44 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 162,000 to give 4.33 million, at quarter end.
News categories: DIRECTV, DTVLA, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Time Warner Cable digital subscribers stable at 8.8 million
Nov 5, 2009 – Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009. At the end of the period TWC had approximately 13.0 million video subscribers, of which approximately 8.8 million received video via digital transmission.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA

Comcast deploys additional 2.6 million STBs in 3Q09
Nov 4, 2009 – Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. At the end of the period Comcast's digital video customers totaled 18.0 million, an increase of 463,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

Clear Lake Telephone Selects Entone For IPTV Launch
Nov 3, 2009 – Entone has announced that Clear Lake Telephone has selected Entone's award-winning Hydra™ IP video gateway and Amulet™ IPTV receiver for their high-definition (HD) IPTV service launch.
News categories: Entone, Clear Lake Telephone, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, USA