Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Multichoice Africa DTH reaches 1 million subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 26, 2009 – Naspers (JSE: NPN)(LSE:NPSN) has announced results for the six months ended 30 September 2009. In South Africa the base grew by 238,000 to 2,639,000 households. In the rest of sub-Saharan Africa the base grew by 114,000 to 1,030,000 homes.
News categories: Naspers, MultiChoice, Irdeto, Angola, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DVR, Ghana, Kenya, Middleware, Namibia, Nigeria, Results, Satellite, South Africa, Subscribers, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Cable & Wireless Panamá launches digital TV with Motorola
Nov 26, 2009 – The Home & Networks Mobility business unit of Motorola has announced that it has been selected by Cable & Wireless, a leading telecommunications companies worldwide, as a technology provider for its new Digital TV service in Panama, '+TV Digital'.
News categories: Motorola, Cable & Wireless, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Panama

T-Com Slovakia launches Magio DTH
Nov 26, 2009 – Slovak Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has officially introduced its Magio satellite television service. More than 7000 customer pre-registrations were received by T-Com during the month, confirming the public's interest in the new service.
News categories: Slovak Telekom, Digital TV, Satellite, Slovakia

Peru proposes ISDB STB manufacturing hub
Nov 26, 2009 – The Deputy Minister of Communications of Peru is seeking to make the city of Tacna, with its Free Trade Zone, into a regional centre for development and manufacturing of ISDB set-top boxes.
News categories: ZOFRATACNA, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Peru, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Com Hem adds 40k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 25, 2009 – Com Hem has reported results for the first three quarters of 2009. Between the second and third quarter of 2009, the number of digital television subscribers increased by 8 percent to nearly 545,000 customers.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Pace launches with Latin America's largest cable operator
Nov 25, 2009 – Pace (LSE: PIC) has announced that it will be providing the HD (high definition) DVR (digital video recorder) set-top boxes to support a new, advanced service offering from Latin America's largest cable operator, Argentina's Cablevisión.
News categories: Pace plc, Cablevisión, Argentina, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box

Kaon Media DTT PVR for ZUUMtv in Estonia
Nov 24, 2009 – Starman has introduced a PVR for its ZUUMtv digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Estonia. The set-top box has a 250GB hard disk and is manufactured by Kaon Media.
News categories: KAON, Starman, Digital TV, Estonia, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Virgin Media Selects TiVo For Next Generation TV Platform
Nov 24, 2009 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) and Virgin Media (NASDAQ, LSE: VMED) have entered into a strategic partnership under which TiVo will develop a converged television and broadband interactive interface to power Virgin Media's next generation, HD set top boxes.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Virgin Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK

Coship STBs for Continent TV in Russia
Nov 23, 2009 – Orion Express has selected set-top boxes from Coship (Shenzhen:002052) for its Continent TV satellite service in Russia. There are two receiver options - a standard definition model, and a PVR-Ready high definition (HD) model.
News categories: Coship, Orion Express, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box