Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Armenia to move to digital TV broadcasting by 2015
Nov 13, 2009 – Armenia's Economy Minister, Nerses Yeritsyan, has said at a press briefing that the country will completely switch to digital broadcasting by 2015. According to him, the Armenian government has now officially endorsed the scheme.
News categories: Armenia, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Liberty Global to Acquire Unitymedia
Nov 13, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement with Unity Media S.C.A. to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Unitymedia GmbH, Germany's second largest cable operator.
News categories: Liberty Global, Unitymedia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, MandA

Viaccess secures BoomTV DTT in Macedonia
Nov 12, 2009 – Viaccess (Paris and NYSE: FTE) has announced that Boom TV, the leading premium pay-TV operator in Macedonia, has selected Viaccess conditional access platform to secure its programming broadcast on its digital terrestrial television nationwide.
News categories: Viaccess, BoomTV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Macedonia, Terrestrial

Saankhya Labs launches TV demodulator IC
Nov 11, 2009 – Saankhya Labs, a fabless chip startup, has announced its Universal TV demodulator IC based on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, and targeted at world TV and PC-TV receiver markets.
News categories: Saankhya Labs, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, Terrestrial

StarHub adds 7k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 10, 2009 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has reported 2009 third quarter and year-to-date results. StarHub's pay TV customer base was up 3% year-on-year to 535,000. Digital customers now make up 100% of the total pay TV customer base.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2009 Results
Nov 10, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. The company shipped approximately 1.96 million smart cards during the quarter, compared to 2.21 million smart cards in the 2008 third quarter.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Cyfrowy Polsat subscriber base grows 73 thousand in Q309
Nov 10, 2009 – Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw: CPS) has released its results for the period ended 30 September 2009. Cyfrowy Polsat had 2,916,750 subscribers at quarter end. The company is considering starting production of its own high definition set-top boxes in 2010.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Butler-Bremer Launches Cable IPTV with Harmonic and Falcon IP/Complete
Nov 10, 2009 – Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) and Falcon IP/Complete have announced that Butler-Bremer Communications has selected the IP/Complete 'bird to box' video solution and Harmonic's Direct-2 Edge™ (D2E) solution for its new cable IPTV service.
News categories: Harmonic Inc, Falcon IP/Complete, Butler-Bremer, Cable TV, Content Distribution, IPTV, USA

1.083 million digital pay TV households in Hungary at end-September
Nov 10, 2009 – In September 2009, the number of households in Hungary watching digital television increased by sixteen thousand to 1.083 million, states the flash report released by the National Communications Authority (NHH).
News categories: NHH, Cable TV, Hungary, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial