Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Kabel Deutschland adds 76,000 pay TV subscribers in 2013
Feb 5, 2014 – Kabel Deutschland (KDH) has released results for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. The recovery of the Premium TV business continued in Q3 with 86 thousand RGU net adds quarter on quarter after a weaker H1.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

TDC TV stable over 2013 with 1.38 million subscribers
Feb 4, 2014 – TDC has published results for the fourth quarter of 2013. Continued TV net adds in TDC brand (5k) and Fullrate TV relaunch (4k) compensated for the loss of YouSee customers in the organized market (-10k in Q4).
News categories: YouSee, TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, Results

Comcast Launches X1 DVR in Boston
Feb 4, 2014 – Comcast has announced that it will launch X1 DVR with cloud technology and live in-home streaming TV to new Xfinity TV customers in the company’s Boston region.
News categories: Comcast, Matt Strauss, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Mobile, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

Over 400,000 TV subscribers for Magyar Telekom
Feb 4, 2014 – Magyar Telekom has announced that the number of the subscribers to its IPTV and Interactive Sat TV (satellite) services has exceeded 400 thousand with further growth expected in 2014.
News categories: Magyar Telekom, Digital TV, Hungary, IPTV, Satellite, Subscribers

KPN adds 187,000 TV subscribers in 2013
Feb 4, 2014 – KPN has published its 2013 full year results. KPN’s IPTV proposition resulted in another quarter of strong IPTV net adds (80k), offseting a decline in Digitenne subscribers of 42k.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Digital TV in 82% of Dutch households
Feb 3, 2014 – According to the 2013 Media Standard Survey (MSS) produced by TNS-NIPO for Stichting KijkOnderzoek (SKO), digital television is now in 82% of Dutch households, up from 76% in 2012.
News categories: Stichting KijkOnderzoek, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Optical Disc Recorder, Satellite, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Freesat adds 31,000 UK households in 4Q 2013
Feb 3, 2014 – Freesat, the UK subscription free satellite TV service, has announced Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million.
News categories: Freesat, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

ONO TV subscribers down 17,000 in 4Q 2013
Feb 1, 2014 – ONO has announced that it has made strides in TV services, notably via Tivo, the advanced PVR service which in the last quarter added more than 65,000 clients.
News categories: Grupo Corporativo ONO, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Spain, Subscribers

Ghana publishes conformance procedure for Digital TV logos
Jan 31, 2014 – Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA) has published the procedure for the award of the Conformance Logos for Digital TV sets and decoders.
News categories: National Communications Authority, Digital TV, Ghana, QoE, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial