Satellite Television (DBS, DTH, DSat, DVB-S, DVB-S2) News

Brazil adds 47 thousand pay TV subscribers in 3Q 2016
Nov 8, 2016 – According to Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country’s pay TV subscriber base ended September 2016 at 18.96 million, with 47 thousand subscribers being added in the quarter to leave the total 558 thousand down on one year before.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

ABS and Sarana Media Vision to launch FreeViewSat DTH in Indonesia
Nov 8, 2016 – ABS has announced that it will partner with PT Sarana Media Vision (SMV), using SMV’s DTH license to launch a consumer FreeView satellite service – FreeViewSat – across Indonesia in January 2017.
News categories: ABS, FreeViewSat, Tom Choi, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Indonesia, Middleware, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Russia's Orion chooses ATEME encoders and decoders
Nov 3, 2016 – ATEME has announced that Orion, one of the largest satellite media platforms in Russia and the CIS, has selected ATEME’s encoders and decoders to support its expansion program in the region.
News categories: ATEME, Orion, Xavier Gentric, Кonstantin Saltikov, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite

Dish TV India adds 259,000 subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 28, 2016 – Dish TV India (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported its second quarter fiscal 2017 results. The company added 259 thousand subscribers during the quarter to close with a subscriber base of 15.1 million.
News categories: Dish TV India, India, Results, Satellite

Telefonica pay TV subscribers down 25k in 3Q 2016
Oct 27, 2016 – Telefónica has reported results for the first nine months of the 2016. Video revenues in the quarter grew year-on-year by 9.9%, driven by y-o-y growth of pay TV accesses to 8.4 million at September (4.4 million satellite TV accesses).
News categories: Telefónica, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Venezuela

Videocon d2h adds 0.23 million net subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 26, 2016 – Videocon d2h (NASDAQ: VDTH) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The company added 0.59 million gross subscribers and 0.23 million net subscribers during the second quarter of fiscal 2017.
News categories: Videocon d2h, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Satellite TV now in 8.4 million Italian homes
Oct 25, 2016 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has presented fresh data on trends shaping Italy’s TV landscape where average viewing of linear content is the highest in Western Europe, at four hours and 40 minutes per person per day.
News categories: Eutelsat, Renato Farina, Digital TV, Italy, Market Research, Satellite

CRTC releases report on the broadcasting sector in Canada
Oct 25, 2016 – Canada's CRTC has released a report that shows how the viewing and listening habits of Canadians are transforming the broadcasting industry. Canadians are consuming more audio and video content on digital media and over devices connected to the Internet.
News categories: CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 256,000 subscribers in 3Q 2016
Oct 25, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2016. DTH had 12.4 million customers at the end of the quarter, up 17.3% compared with the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers