Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Rovi and FourthWall Media Collaborate on Enhanced TV Platform
Feb 8, 2010 – FourthWall Media and Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq: ROVI) have signed an agreement under which Rovi will offer an integrated ETV Platform, including FourthWall Media's EBIF User Agent, ETV Server, and TV Widgets® as part of Rovi's guide solutions.
News categories: Rovi Corp, FourthWall Media, Cable TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, USA

Broadcom Announces DTA 4.0 Cable Solution for Digital TV Conversion
Feb 8, 2010 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced the industry's first Digital Transport Adapter (DTA) 4.0 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that features an integrated tuner and switchable content protection.
News categories: Broadcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DOCSIS, ICs, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, USA

MTG Acquires 50% of Russian DTH Satellite Pay-TV Platform
Feb 8, 2010 – Modern Times Group (STO:MTGA; STO:MTGB) has announced that it has acquired 50% of Raduga Holdings from Continental Media. Raduga is the sole owner of LCC DaoGeoCom, which operates Russian nationwide DTH satellite pay-TV platform Raduga TV.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Raduga, MandA, Russia, Satellite

Western European Tier 1 Operator awards Amino contract for hybrid/OTT media centre
Feb 8, 2010 – Amino Technologies (AIM: AMO.L) has secured a substantial contract with a tier 1 Western European operator to deliver hybrid/OTT Intel®-based media centres to support the operator's new broadband TV service.
News categories: Amino, Intel Corp, Digital TV, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Asia-Pac to Show 12% Annual Growth in Set-Top Box Shipments through 2014
Feb 4, 2010 – Set-top boxes are set to reach Asian consumers at an ever-increasing rate, according to new STB market data published by ABI Research with overall STB shipments in the region approaching 111 million in 2014.
News categories: ABI Research, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Bell TV adds 41k subscribers in 4Q09; plans IPTV in 2010
Feb 4, 2010 – BCE (TSX, NYSE: BCE) has reported results for the fourth quarter of 2009. Bell announced plans for the introduction of IPTV later in 2010. Total TV subscribers increased by 41,000 in the quarter to give 1,949,000 TV subscribers at year-end.
News categories: BCE Inc, Canada, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Technicolor reaches 100 million digital set-top box milestone
Feb 4, 2010 – Technicolor (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TCH), formerly Thomson, has reached the milestone of delivering 100 million digital set-top boxes over multi networks since it entered the market in 1994.
News categories: Technicolor, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

StarHub adds 4k pay TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 4, 2010 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has reported 2009 fourth quarter and full year results. As at 31 December 2009, Pay TV subscriber base totaled 539K, a net addition of 4K for the quarter and 15K for the full year period.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Set Top Box, Singapore, Subscribers

TDC adds 24k TV customers in 4Q09
Feb 4, 2010 – TDC (Copenhagen:TDC) has published financial statements for the January-December 2009 period. YouSee's TV customers increased to 1.249 million at the end of September, up from 1.140 million the year before. IPTV customers reached 96,000 at year-end.
News categories: YouSee, TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Results, Subscribers