Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

KPN adds 0.2 million IPTV subscriber in 1H 2013
Jul 23, 2013 – KPN has published its 2013 half year results. KPN's IPTV proposition resulted in another quarter of strong IPTV net adds (82k) leading to a TV market share of 24%, an increase of 5%-points y-on-y. ARPU per customer increased by 7.7% y-on-y to EUR 42 in Q2 2013.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Canal Digital DTH down 3 thousand subscribers in 2Q 2013
Jul 23, 2013 – Telenor Group has reported results for the second quarter of 2013. The company finished the period with 934,000 subscribers to its Canal Digital pay TV services, down from 945,000 at the end of 2012 and down 3 thousand in the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Spain's pay TV subscriber base drops below 4 million in Q1 2013
Jul 22, 2013 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the country for the first quarter of 2013. Total pay TV subscribers dropped below 4 million at the end of the quarter, down from around 4.4 million at the same point in 2012.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Neotion DVB-T2 CAM for EvoTV in Croatia
Jul 22, 2013 – NEOTION has developed a cardless solution for evoTV, Croatian Post's digital terrestrial pay TV service. The CAM is to be bundled with DVB-T2 TV-sets - specially designed by Grundig for the evoTV offer.
News categories: NEOTION, evoTV, Grundig, Quentin Hamard, CAM, Croatia, Digital TV, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Broadcom launches HD DOCSIS 2.0 STB reference design for emerging markets
Jul 22, 2013 – Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) has announced a high definition (HD) and Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 2.0 set-top box (STB) reference platform for operators in emerging markets.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable Modem, Cable TV, DOCSIS, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

FCC releases report on competition in the U.S. video programming delivery market
Jul 19, 2013 – The FCC has adopted its 15th Report to Congress on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of video programming. The Commission found that the number of MVPD subscribers grew from 100.8 million to 101.0 million households between year-end 2010 and June 2012.
News categories: Federal Communications Commission, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers, Terrestrial, USA

J:COM announces June 2013 subscriber figures
Jul 19, 2013 – Jupiter Telecommunications (J:COM, JASDAQ: 4817), the largest MSO in Japan, has announced that the total subscribing households as of June 30, 2013 served by J:COM's subsidiaries reached 3.78 million, up 94,100 or 2.6% from June 30, 2012.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Japan, Subscribers

Humax unveils the world's first HTML5 based smart set-top box
Jul 18, 2013 – Humax has announced that it will supply T-broad with the smart set-top boxes based on HTML5. It is the world's first commercialized HTML5 based product and was developed for Smart Plus, the pay tv service T-broad launched last month.
News categories: Humax, T-broad, Cable TV, Digital TV, Korea, Middleware, Set Top Box

Technicolor to provide Hathway with Gateway and HD Set-Top Box
Jul 17, 2013 – Technicolor (PARIS: TCH) has announced that it has been awarded two contracts from Hathway, India's leading cable broadband service provider, for MediaAccess gateways and MediaPlay set-top boxes.
News categories: Technicolor, Hathway, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, India, Set Top Box