Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Satellite TV subscriptions grow 91.6% in Mexico
Dec 9, 2010 – During the third quarter of 2010, Mexico's telecommunications sector registered a year-on-year growth of 11% according COFETEL. Satellite TV (DTH) subscribers grew 91.6% to 3.8 million with Cable TV subscriptions up 6.6% to 5.3 million.
News categories: COFETEL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Mexico, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

HDTV Rollout in China Continues to Power Cogo's Digital Media Growth
Dec 9, 2010 – Cogo Group (Nasdaq: COGO) continues to benefit from the strong roll-out of HDTV as total HDTV subscribers in China passed 2 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2010, up from 2 million in July 2010.
News categories: Cogo Group, Cable TV, China, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Ukraine awards DTT transmission contract
Dec 8, 2010 – The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine has awarded the licence to build the country's digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmission infrastructure to Zeonbud.
News categories: National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Terrestrial, Ukraine

BSAT-3b Satellite Begins Service for Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation of Japan
Dec 8, 2010 – The BSAT-3b broadcasting satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) B-SAT of Japan, is now operational following successful on-orbit deployment and checkout of all spacecraft systems.
News categories: B-SAT, Lockheed Martin, Japan, Satellite

Romanian DTH subscriber base shrank in 1H2010
Dec 8, 2010 – Romania's National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) has published its half-yearly electronic communications market report. Romania had 2.63 million digital pay TV subscribers at the end of June 2010.
News categories: ANCOM, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

Orbit Showtime Network to switch-off 5 million TV pirates
Dec 7, 2010 – Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) is giving all of its subscribers new set-top boxes between now and December 19th when it will switch to a new 'unhackable' conditional access system.
News categories: Orbit Showtime Network, Algeria, Bahrain, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Middle-East, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, Set Top Box, Syria, UAE, Yemen

SiTune facilitates multi-standard Set Top Box and TV applications with Universal CMOS RF Tuner
Dec 6, 2010 – SiTune has announced its latest generation of Universal CMOS TV tuners based upon its P2TUNE architecture. The STN-50T4000 is a highly integrated Zero-IF Tuner that supports both cable and digital terrestrial TV standards.
News categories: SiTune, Cable TV, CES2025, Digital TV, DTMB, DVB-T2, ICs, ISDB-T, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

MAXtv available from now on everywhere in Croatia - via satellite
Dec 3, 2010 – MAXtv from T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) is now available to every person in Croatia, thanks to the launch of satellite broadcasting for the service.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, Digital TV, Satellite

Dutch digital TV market grows to 5.26 million
Dec 3, 2010 – The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 3.4 percent or 174,300 net additions during the third quarter of 2010 to 5.26 million on 30 September, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial