Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

MaxLinear channel stacking IC powers SELFSAT flat satellite antenna
Jun 6, 2016 – MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL) has announced that its MxL862 Full-Spectrum Capture (FSC) digital channel stacking switch (dCSS) SoC has been selected for the SELFSAT–H21DCSS, the industry’s first dCSS flat satellite antenna.
News categories: MaxLinear, I DO IT, Will Torgerson, Seung Joon Im, LNB, Satellite, Semiconductor, Worldwide

Pay TV subscriptions in Costa Rica grew 9% in 2015
May 31, 2016 – Costa Rica’s Superintendency of Telecommunications (SUTEL) has released a report on the country’s telecommunications market for the period 2011 to 2015. Costa Rica ended 2015 with 797,230 pay TV subscribers, up 64,684 (9%) versus the end of 2014.
News categories: SUTEL, Cable TV, Costa Rica, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

Toggle Red Button HbbTV trial begins in Singapore
May 31, 2016 – Toggle has launched a new service, Toggle Red Button. The service is based on a hybrid technology known as Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV). Mediacorp, the company that runs Toggle, is the first in Asia to deploy HbbTV technology.
News categories: Mediacorp, Sofia Digital, Anil Nihalani, Digital TV, HbbTV, Singapore, Smart TV, Terrestrial

beIN launches MENA’s first 4K Ultra HD satellite receiver
May 31, 2016 – beIN has announced that it has launched it’s Ultra-High Definition (UHD) 4K receiver in MENA. beIN is the first pay-TV platform in the region to introduce the 4K technology that is quickly taking over the mainstream video ecosystem.
News categories: beIN, Digital TV, Middle-East, Satellite, Set Top Box

SES expands its reach to two million TV homes in Ghana
May 31, 2016 – SES (Paris; Luxembourg: SESG) has announced the results of its Satellite Monitor study in Ghana, which shows that SES has increased its technical reach in the country to two million TV homes - an increase of over 18% TV homes compared to 2014.
News categories: SES S.A, Eric Lecocq, Ghana, Market Research, Satellite

MCTV selects Amino TV devices and service assurance platform
May 31, 2016 – Amino Communications has secured a contract to provide TV devices and its Engage service assurance software to Ohio-based North American service provider MCTV.
News categories: Amino Communications, MCTV, Donald McGarva, Bob Gessner, Cable TV, Digital TV, Set Top Box, USA

Reliance Big TV subscribers remain at 5.0 million
May 30, 2016 – Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 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

DEN Networks deploys 1 million STBs in 1Q 2016
May 30, 2016 – DEN Networks has announced results for the fourth quarter of its 2015-16 financial year which ended on March 31, 2016. The company ended the period with 9.4 million digital subscribers, up around 1 million in the final quarter.
News categories: DEN Networks, Cable TV, India, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Cable ONE adds HBO GO app to TiVo DVR
May 26, 2016 – Cable ONE has announced the launch of HBO GO through its DVR powered by TiVo. The app gives Cable ONE TiVo users, who subscribe to HBO, access to HBO's entire library. The company expects to also launch Hulu on its TiVo devices later this summer.
News categories: Cable ONE, HBO GO, Joe Felbab, Apps, Cable TV, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA