Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

EU invests €10.5 million in TV digitalisation in Serbia
Feb 5, 2011 – The European Union will invest a €10.5 million grant for the project of TV digitalisation in Serbia. The digitalisation of TV signal in the country is expected to be completed by 4 April 2012.
News categories: EU Delegation to Serbia, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Serbia, Terrestrial

Montenegro finishes 2010 with 111 thousand pay TV subscribers
Feb 4, 2011 – The Broadcasting Agency of Montenegro has released subscriber figures for the six operators authorised to distribute radio and TV programmes in the country. As at 31 December 2010, the number of connections over the different platforms was 111,613.
News categories: Agencija za radio-difuziju, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, MMDS, Montenegro, Satellite, Subscribers

Colombia ends 2010 with 3.5 million pay TV subscribers
Feb 3, 2011 – Colombia's Comisión Nacional de Televisión (CNTV) has published pay TV subscriber figures for the country for 2010. The total number of subscriptions grew from 3.2 million at the end of 2009 to 3.5 million at the end of 2010.
News categories: Comisión Nacional de Televisión, Cable TV, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Advocate General says territorial exclusivity agreements relating to the transmission of football matches are contrary to EU law
Feb 3, 2011 – European Union law does not make it possible to prohibit the live transmission of Premier League football matches in pubs by means of foreign decoder cards.
News categories: Court of Justice, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Set Top Box, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

2010 Satellite Set Top Box Shipments Down 8% in North American and Western European Regions
Feb 3, 2011 – Shipments of satellite set top boxes declined in 2010 by 8% in both the North American and Western European regions, according to In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Pay TV in Latin America - Economic Miracle or Another False Dawn
Feb 2, 2011 – Pay TV in Latin America went into overdrive during 2010, and is in for a pay TV boom lasting another four years to 2014, says a new Report from Rethink Technology Research.
News categories: Rethink Technology, Brazil, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Pace wins PVR contract with Tata Sky, Times reports
Feb 2, 2011 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has won a contract to supply PVR set-top boxes to Tata Sky in India, according to the The Times newspaper of the UK.
News categories: Pace plc, Tata Sky, Digital TV, DVR, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

Sales Of Freeview HD Passes 1 Million Milestone
Feb 2, 2011 – Freeview UK has announced that sales of Freeview HD TVs and boxes have reached 1.2 million. In the nine month period after launch, Freeview estimates that 642,000 homes are now watching Freeview HD.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK

Strong Growth for French TNTSAT on ASTRA
Feb 2, 2011 – SES ASTRA (Paris:SESG; LuxX:SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, reached a total of 2.65 million receivers sold at the end of 2010.
News categories: SES ASTRA, TNTSAT, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV