Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

More Australians making the switch to digital TV
Feb 25, 2010 – The number of Australians who have converted to digital television grew steadily during 2009. The latest results of the Digital Tracker survey found 61 per cent of Australian households had converted to digital TV by the end of 2009.
News categories: Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

Sky Deutschland subscribers up 39k in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – Sky Deutschland (XETRA: SKYD.DE) has announced results for Q4 2009. The total number of direct subscribers was 2.47 million on 31 December 2009. In Q4 2009, net subscriber growth was 39,000. Gross additions amounted to 167,000.
News categories: Sky Deutschland, Austria, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Virgin Media adds 112,700 HD DVR subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 25, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED; LSE: VMED) has announces results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Virgin Media added V+ HD DVR subscribers at a record rate with a further 112,700 subscribers in the quarter to reach an installed base of 862,000.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

Conax claims 15% DVB and 40% DTT market shares
Feb 24, 2010 – Conax (Oslo:TEL) exhibited continued market growth in 2009 cultivating a 15% market share in the global DVB market and winning most new contracts. Conax is also a leader within content security for DTT, capturing 40% of the DTT market.
News categories: Conax, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

Telenet reaches 1 million digital TV customers in 4Q09
Feb 24, 2010 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has announced results for the full year ended December 31, 2009. At the end of December 2009, Telenet served 1,001,000 digital TV customers, up 49% compared to the prior year period.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global adds 382k digital cable and 23k DTH subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 24, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter 2009. Digital cable was Liberty Global's most successful product in 2009 with 1.6 million digital cable additions, including 377,000 in the fourth quarter.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Cablevision Service Connects Computer and Television Screens With the Press of a Button
Feb 24, 2010 – Cablevision Systems (NYSE: CVC) has announced the development of a service, called PC to TV Media Relay, that will allow its digital cable customers to relay the contents of their computer screen to their television in real-time.
News categories: Cablevision, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Smart Home, Streaming, USA

Abertis Integrates Irdeto to Strengthen its TDT Premium Digital Content Security
Feb 24, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) and Abertis Telecom (Madrid: ABE) have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT Premium platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Abertis Telecom, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Telekomunikacja Polska adds 40k IPTV and 219k DTH subscribers in 2009
Feb 23, 2010 – Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) has provided selected financial and operating data related to the activities of TP Group for the full year 2009. TP's TV subscriber base grew by more than 300% to 372,000 compared with 113,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, IPTV, Poland, Satellite, Subscribers