Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Insight Communications adds 14k digital subscribers in 4Q09
Mar 8, 2010 – Insight Communications has announced results for the full year ended December 31, 2009. In 2009, Insight had a digital customer net gain of 69,900. Total digital customers at year end were 509,400, a 71% penetration of basic cable customers.
News categories: Insight Communications, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Globo Selects Nagravision For TVDR Rural TV in Brazil
Mar 8, 2010 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced that Brazilian TV network Rede Globo has selected Nagravision for its TVDR (Digital Television for Rural Areas) project. The project will replace millions of analogue receivers for HD-ready set-top boxes.
News categories: TVDR, Nagravision, Brazil, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Satellite, Set Top Box

Uruguay may undo decision to adopt DVB for DTT
Mar 8, 2010 – Uruguay's President-elect, José Mujica, has said that at the beginning of his term the country will have to decide whether or not to stay with DVB as its chosen method of digital terrestrial TV (DTT) transmission.
News categories: Digital TV, Regulation, SBTVD, Terrestrial, Uruguay

Paraguay DTT standard recommendation expected in May
Mar 8, 2010 – Paraguay's telecoms services regulator CONATEL expects in May to issue a recommendation to the executive branch regarding which digital standard the country should adopt, local newspaper Última Hora reported.
News categories: Conatel, Digital TV, Paraguay, Terrestrial

Malta pay TV subscriptions up 6.6k in 4Q09
Mar 8, 2010 – Malta's National Statistics Office has published Post and Telecommunications numbers for the fourth quarter of 2009. With 110,659 cable and terrestrial subscriptions, digital amounted to 79.4 per cent of all pay TV subscriptions.
News categories: National Statistics Office, Cable TV, Malta, Market Research, Terrestrial

Satellite subscribers grow 50% in Mexico in 2009
Mar 4, 2010 – According to Mexico's Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL), cable TV subscriptions in the country grew by 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with the same period in 2008, to reach 5.042 million users.
News categories: COFETEL, Cable TV, Market Research, Mexico, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

TiVo and Echostar/DISH Network Statements on Decision by U.S. Court of Appeals
Mar 4, 2010 – TiVo and Echostar/DISH Network have issued statements regarding the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals on TiVo's Lawsuit Against EchoStar.
News categories: TiVo, DISH Network, Echostar, DVR, Patent, Satellite

Sky Deutschland to show first live HD 3D production in Germany
Mar 4, 2010 – Sky Deutschland (XETRA: SKYD.DE) is to show an HD production in 3D for the first time in Germany. On 14 March, the Bundesliga top match between Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburger SV will be produced in 3D and will be shown to a select number of viewers in Munich.
News categories: Sky Deutschland, Digital TV, Germany, Metaverse, Satellite

Portugal's meo TV adds 76k subscribers in 4Q09
Mar 4, 2010 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2009. PT's meo TV service accounted for 76 thousand net additions, bringing the total pay TV customer base to 581 thousand.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, meo TV, IPTV, Mobile, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers