Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

TDC adds 20k TV customers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – TDC (Copenhagen:TDC) has published financial statements for the January-March 2010 period. Since 1Q 2009, 38,000 new TV customers have joined YouSee. The customer base for the digital add-on product (YouSee Plus) increased by 31,000.
News categories: YouSee, TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Unitymedia adds 53k digital cable subscribers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – Unitymedia has provided information for the three months ended March 31, 2010. A highlight of the last twelve months has been the addition of 211,000 digital cable RGUs, of which 53,000 were in Q1 2010.
News categories: Unitymedia, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Ghana targets 2013 for analogue switchover
May 7, 2010 – The Secretary of Ghana's National Digital Broadcasting Migration Technical Committee (NDBMTC) has announced that the committee has set 2013 as the time frame for the completion of the country's migration to digital TV.
News categories: Digital TV, Ghana, Regulation, Terrestrial

FCC Grants Approval For Sending Recent Movies Directly To Consumers Over Secure TV Lines
May 7, 2010 – The FCC has approved a request by the MPAA to permit recent movies to be sent directly to American households over secure high definition transmission lines from their cable or satellite providers prior to their release on DVD or Blu-ray.
News categories: Federal Communications Commission, Motion Picture Association of America, Cable TV, Content Protection, IPTV, Regulation, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

Vietnam pay-TV in bloom
May 7, 2010 – Vietnam's pay-TV sector is one of the fastest developing markets in the Asia Pacific. While it is a comparatively small market, the opportunities are immense as the industry focuses on the dual subscription and advertising revenue streams.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Bell TV Canada adds 20k subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) has reported BCE and Bell results for the first quarter of 2010. Total TV subscribers increased by 19,889 this quarter. At the end of the quarter, there were 1,968,766 TV subscribers.
News categories: BCE Inc, Canada, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Multimedia Polska adds 1.7k digital TV subscribers in Q1"²10
May 6, 2010 – The Multimedia Polska Group (Warsaw:MMP) has published its report for the three months ended 31 March 2010. At the end of the quarter the Group had 108,100 digital television subscribers in both technologies (DTV and IPTV).
News categories: Multimedia Polska, Cable TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Charter digital video customers increase 95,800 in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Charter Communications has reported results for the three months ended March 31, 2010. Digital video customers increased by approximately 95,800 during the quarter to reach approximately 3.3 million at the end of March.
News categories: Charter Communications, Cable TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

Liberty Global adds 286k digital cable and loses 5k DTH subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter 2010. Digital cable was the strongest product with 286,000 organic additions to give 6.0 million digital cable RGUs at the end of the period.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland