Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

The Window for Pay-TV Operators to Control the Video-On-Demand Movie Rental Market is Still Open, But For How Long?
Feb 16, 2012 – According to The NPD Group, the current VOD market for paid movie rentals is ruled by pay-TV services. The emerging Internet video-on-demand (iVOD) movie market may already be leading to consumers reducing their use of pay-TV VOD a-la-carte movie services.
News categories: NPD Group, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Streaming, USA

DIRECTV Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results
Feb 16, 2012 – DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported for the fourth quarter 2011. DIRECTV U.S. ended the quarter with 19.89 million subscribers. Sky Mexico had approximately 4.01 million and DIRECTV Latin America had 7.87 million subscribers as of December 31, 2011.
News categories: DIRECTV, DIRECTV Latin America, Sky Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, Venezuela

Kabel Deutschland results for the quarter ended December 31, 2011
Feb 16, 2012 – Kabel Deutschland has released its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2011. Since summer 2011, the Company has seen strongly rising demand for its Premium TV services. In the quarter, Premium TV RGUs increased by 9.5% or 133.8 thousand units.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Media Networks Latin America Signs Major DTH Capacity Agreement with SES
Feb 16, 2012 – SES [Paris;LuxX:SESG] has announced that Media Networks Latin America (MNLA) [Madrid;NYSE: TEF] has signed a long-term capacity deal to expand its pay-TV service across Central America and the Caribbean.
News categories: SES S.A., Media Networks, Caribbean, Central America, Content Distribution, Satellite

ARRIS to Display DVB-C2 Broadcast at Cable Congress 2012
Feb 15, 2012 – ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS) has announced its participation at this year's Cable Congress. ARRIS will present a live demonstration of how the ARRIS D5® Universal Edge QAM can support DVB-C2 broadcast and VOD in conjunction with Kabel Deutschland and Sony.
News categories: ARRIS Group, Cable TV, Content Distribution, DVB-C2

Comcast video subscribers steady in 4Q 2011
Feb 15, 2012 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) has reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2011. In the fourth quarter total video subscribers fell 17,000, with digital video subscribers increasing by 301,000 to 20.556 million.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Aereo internet TV to launch in New York
Feb 14, 2012 – Aereo has announced $20.5 million in Series A financing led by IAC (Nasdaq: IACI). IAC Chairman & Senior Executive, Barry Diller, has joined Aereo's Board of Directors. The service is to launch in New York on March 14.
News categories: Aereo, DVR, Streaming, Terrestrial, USA

Fastway Ushers In Cable Digitization with Cisco Set-Top Boxes
Feb 13, 2012 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced that it has been chosen by Fastway to usher in cable digitization across its customer base in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
News categories: Cisco Systems, Fastway, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Set Top Box

Freeview HD Sales Pass Four Million Following Surge in Q4 Sales
Feb 13, 2012 – Freeview in the UK has confirmed that after strong quarterly sales of 1.3 million Freeview HD televisions and boxes, the number of Freeview HD units sold reached 4.4 million by the end of December 2011.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, DVB-T2, DVR, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK