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

Dish TV India adds 402,000 subscribers in 2Q 2016
Jul 28, 2016 – Dish TV India (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported its first quarter fiscal 2017 results. The company added 402 thousand subscribers during the quarter to close with a subscriber base of 14.9 million.
News categories: Dish TV India, Jawahar Goel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 424,000 subscribers in 2Q 2016
Jul 27, 2016 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2016. On June 30, 2016, the Company had 12.1 million DTH customers, an increase of 16.7%, the highest in the last 13 quarters, as compare to the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Airtel, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Sony commercializes industry's first ISDB-S3 demodulator IC and NIM
Jul 27, 2016 – Sony has announced the commercialization of the industry's first demodulator LSI and tuner modules that conform to the ISDB-S3 (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting for Satellite, 3rd generation) standard for 4K and 8K satellite digital broadcasts.
News categories: Sony Corp, Digital TV, ICs, Japan, Satellite, Semiconductor

Tricolor TV to deploy Eutelsat multiscreen video delivery service
Jul 27, 2016 – Tricolor TV and Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) have announce that they are deploying the first network in Russia to use SmartBeam, Eutelsat's multi-screen video delivery solution. SmartBeam opens the door to the deployment of the first satellite network in Russia to deliver video content to mobile devices.
News categories: Eutelsat, Tricolor TV, Rodolphe Belmer, Alexei Kholodov, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, Router, Russia, Satellite, Smart Home

Türk Telekom adds 76,000 Tivibu TV subscribers in 2Q 2016
Jul 26, 2016 – Türk Telekom has announced its results for the second quarter of 2016. Subscribers to the company's Tivibu Home IPTV and DTH TV services increased by 76,000 in the quarter to finish at 544,000.
News categories: Türk Telekom, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Turkey

DIRECTV up 342k; U-Verse down 391k; DTVLA up 87k subscribers in 2Q 2016
Jul 21, 2016 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported results for the second quarter of 2016. In the U.S., total video subscribers were down 49,000 in the quarter. DIRECTV Latin America second-quarter subscriber net adds were 87,000.
News categories: AT&T, Brazil, IPTV, Latin America, Mexico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

DISH Network TV subscribers decline 281,000 in Q2 2016
Jul 21, 2016 – DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported second quarter 2016 results. Net Pay-TV subscribers declined approximately 281,000 in the second quarter, compared to a loss of approximately 81,000 in the second quarter 2015.
News categories: DISH Network, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Intertrust applauds launch of Tivùon!
Jul 18, 2016 – Intertrust has applauded its partner Tivù for their launch of Tivùon!, Italy’s first open standards-based Internet TV service. Tivùon! provides a unified program guide and catch-up TV services on Internet TV sets and set top boxes.
News categories: Intertrust, Tivù, Talal Shamoon, Alberto Sigismondi, DRM, DVB-MHP, HbbTV, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box

Tivù launches tivùon! catch-up TV application
Jul 18, 2016 – Tivù, the company that operates tivùsat, the Italian free-to-air satellite platform, has launched tivùon!, a catch-up application that allows users to browse an extended 7 day EPG, 7 days forward and 7 days backward.
News categories: Tivù, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, HbbTV, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box, UX