Russia Digital TV News

Rostelecom adds 0.6 million IPTV subscribers in 2013
Mar 19, 2014 – Rostelecom (MOEX: RTKM, RTKMP; OTCQX: ROSYY) has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013. The company's pay-TV subscriber base grew by 9% year-on-year to 7.5 million.
News categories: Rostelecom, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Russia's MTS loses 325,000 pay TV subscribers in 2013
Mar 18, 2014 – Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE: MBT) has announced results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2013. MTS finished 2013 with 2.613 million pay TV subscribers, down 325 thousand in year-on-year.
News categories: Mobile TeleSystems, Cable TV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Rovi entertainment discovery and monetization technologies for Grundig TVs
Mar 18, 2014 – Rovi (NASDAQ: ROVI) has announced that Grundig has signed agreements for the use of Rovi TotalGuide CE and Rovi Advertising products in Grundig LED TVs distributed in Germany, the Nordic region, Western Europe, Turkey, and Russia.
News categories: Rovi Corp, Grundig, Akin Garzanli, Pim Versteeg, Advertising, Denmark, Europe, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Middleware, Norway, Russia, Smart TV, Sweden, Turkey

Russia's MTS buys hybrid TV solution from Ericsson
Feb 26, 2014 – Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has signed an agreement for the purchase of a hybrid TV solution from Ericsson. The system will form a common platform for all of MTS' pay TV services across Russia.
News categories: Ericsson, Mobile TeleSystems, NVision, Cable TV, Content Distribution, IPTV, Russia

Tricolor TV adds 2.2 million customers in 2013
Jan 28, 2014 – Russia’s Tricolor TV has announced that it ended the year with 14.1 million customers up 2.2 million over the year. More than 10 million are paying customers and 3.1 million are owners of HD receiving equipment.
News categories: Tricolor TV, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Russian pay TV market grows 13% in 2013
Jan 22, 2014 – According to iKS-Consulting the Russian pay TV market grew 13% in 2013 to 52 billion roubles (US$1.5bn). The number of subscribers reached 33.6 million up 9% year-on-year, giving a penetration of 60%.
News categories: iKS-Consulting, Cable TV, CSTB, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Tricolor TV registers 10 millionth paying subscriber
Dec 15, 2013 – Russia's Tricolor TV has announced that it now has more than 10 million paying subscribers and 13.995 million subscribers in total, thus making it the largest satellite TV provider in Europe by this measure.
News categories: Tricolor TV, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

2.5 million TV subscribers for Russia's ER-Telecom
Dec 12, 2013 – ER-Telecom has announced that it now has 2.51 million subscribers to its dom.ru cable and HDTV services. dom.ru is available in 56 Russian cities and provides 159 digital channels, 50 of which are in high definition.
News categories: ER-Telecom, Cable TV, Digital TV, Fibre, Russia, Subscribers

Rostelecom IPTV subscribers reach 2 million
Dec 3, 2013 – Russia's Rostelecom has announced that it now has 2 million subscribers to its interactive TV service, with the subscriber base tripling over the past two years.
News categories: Rostelecom, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Subscribers