Broadcast (Cable TV, DTH Satellite, Terrestrial) News

Via Embratel reaches 242,000 subscribers at end-3Q09
Oct 28, 2009 – Telmex Internacional (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) has released its results report for the third quarter of 2009. The Service Via Embratel, which was launched in December 2008 in Brazil, reached 241,897 subscribers at the end of the period.
News categories: Telmex Internacional, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

TeliaSonera adds 29k IPTV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 28, 2009 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) has released its interim report for the period January-September 2009. The total number of IPTV subscriptions increased by 29,000 during the quarter, of which 17,000 came from Sweden.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

J:COM adds 85k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 28, 2009 – J:COM (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009. Year-on-year, the number of J:COM TV Digital subscribers rose by 495,900 (28%) to 2,263,500, accounting for 87% of all cable TV subscribers.
News categories: J:COM, Cable TV, DVR, Japan, Results, Subscribers

European Commission wants transition to digital TV to be accelerated
Oct 28, 2009 – The European Commission has made digital dividend proposals that ask EU Member States to speed up the switch-off of analogue TV and to complete it by 1 January 2012.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK

Motorola Unveils New All-Digital, High-Definition Set-Top for Cable Operators
Oct 28, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced the addition of the DCX700 all-digital, high-definition (HD) set-top to its DCX product line. The low-profile design will help cable operators' successful migration to an all-digital network.
News categories: Motorola, Cable TV, CableTecExpo, Conditional Access, DVR, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Cyfrowy Polsat offers Echostar PVR
Oct 28, 2009 – Cyfrowy Polsat is making a new set-top box available to its customers. The receiver, from Echostar, is a high-definition PVR with a 320GB hard disk. The HD DVR-7400 receiver is compatible with the DVB-S and DVB-S2 as well as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Echostar, Digital TV, DVB-S2, DVR, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

Pace Set to Launch Multiroom DVR with Multiple Cable Operators
Oct 28, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced that multiple cable operators, including Buckeye Cablevision, Mediacom, Sunflower Broadband, and others, are already nearing completion of field trials for Pace's Home Content Sharing (HCS) solution.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Home Server, Smart Home, USA

KPN adds 38k DTT and IPTV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 27, 2009 – KPN Group (Amsterdam:KPN) has released its results for Q3 2009. KPN sees continued growth in TV (Digitenne DTT + IPTV), with IPTV taking an increasing share (~70k subscribers). The company is on track to exceed 1 million TV subscribers in 2010.
News categories: KPN, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial