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

Dish TV India adds 338,000 net subscribers in 3Q 2015
Oct 27, 2015 – Dish TV India (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. During the quarter, the company launched India’s first push video-on-demand service, DishFlix, and added 338 thousand net subscribers.
News categories: Dish TV India, Jawahar Goel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Airtel Digital TV adds 164,000 subscribers in 3Q 2015
Oct 26, 2015 – Bharti Airtel has announced results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2015. At teh end of teh period, DTH had 10.6 million customers, an increase of 10.9% as compared to the corresponding quarter last year.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Brazil Pay TV market to reach 28 million households by 2018
Oct 26, 2015 – The Brazilian pay TV market will reach 27.7 million households by 2018 up 30.7% when compared to end-2015. Households with DTH pay TV will account for 60.9% of the total in 2015, according to data from Dataxis.
News categories: Dataxis, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite

SATRO to launch DTH satellite TV in Slovakia
Oct 23, 2015 – Slovakian cable TV provider SATRO has announced the launch, on the 2nd of November, of a direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service. The service, called SATROsat, will broadcast on ASTRA, and will offer up to 250 channels with 40 in high-definition.
News categories: SATRO, Digital TV, Satellite, Slovakia

DIRECTV U.S. subscribers up 26,000; U-Verse TV subscribers down 91,000 in 3Q 2015
Oct 22, 2015 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported results for the third quarter. The company added 26,000 DIRECTV U.S. satellite subscribers after AT&T acquired DIRECTV. U-verse TV subscribers declined 91,000 as the company focused on profitability and increasingly emphasized satellite sales.
News categories: AT&T, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Xcrypt completes CAS installation at TNTSAT AFRICA
Oct 22, 2015 – Xcrypt and TNTSAT Africa inked their agreement in principle during IBC 2014. Less than one year later, after having had to build an entire DTH uplink from scratch and after training 3,000 installers, TNTSAT Africa was live.
News categories: Xcrypt, TNTSAT AFRICA, Africa, Content Protection, Digital TV, IBCShow, Satellite

Orange adds 223,000 TV customers in 3Q 2015
Oct 22, 2015 – Orange (PARIS: ORA; NYSE: ORAN) has released financial information for the 3rd quarter of 2015. The Orange Group added 223 thousand IPTV and satellite TV subscribers in the three months to end-September, finishing with a total of 7.658 million.
News categories: Orange, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Sky releases 3Q 2015 results
Oct 21, 2015 – SKY has released results for the three months ended 30 September 2015. In the UK and Ireland SKY added 759,000 paid-for products, including 43,000 new TV additions and 133,000 new broadband additions.
News categories: SKY plc, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Results, Satellite, UK

Technicolor announces results for 3Q 2015
Oct 20, 2015 – Technicolor (Paris: TCH; OTCQX: TCLRY) has announced results for the third quarter of 2015. Connected Home revenues stood at €984 million in the first nine months of 2015, down 3.9% at current currency compared to the first nine months of 2014.
News categories: Technicolor, Cable TV, North America, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Worldwide