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

Videocon d2h adds 0.2 million net subscribers in 3Q 2015
Oct 20, 2015 – Videocon d2h (NASDAQ: VDTH) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. The Company added 0.57 million gross subscribers and 0.20 million net subscribers during the quarter. Net subscribers totaled 10.84 million.
News categories: Videocon d2h, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

UPC DTH surpasses 800,000 customers
Oct 20, 2015 – Liberty Global’s satellite TV unit (UPC DTH), the satellite television provider in Central and Eastern Europe (freeSAT, UPC Direct and Focus Sat), has announced that it has surpassed 800,000 customers.
News categories: Liberty Global, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

Number of UK quad-play households to double in 2016
Oct 19, 2015 – By the end of 2019, almost 85% of UK households will have signed up to bundles of at least two telecom and media services from the same provider, according to a multiplay services forecast from CCS Insight.
News categories: CCS Insight, Paolo Pescatore, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, UK

APSTAR-9 satellite successfully launched
Oct 17, 2015 – APSTAR has announced the successful launch of APSTAR-9. APSTAR-9 will be located at 142°E replacing APSTAR-9A. APSTAR-9 is equipped with 32 C-band and 14 Ku-band transponders. Ku-band will cover the West Pacific and East India Ocean region, providing DTH, VSAT and mobility services.
News categories: APSTAR, Cheng Guangren, Asia, Content Distribution, Satellite

TURKSAT-4B to be launched on October 16th
Oct 12, 2015 – ILS has announced that TURKSAT-4B will be launched on October 16, 2015. TURKSAT-4B, at 50°E, will provide telecommunication and direct TV broadcasting services over a wide geographic region between the west of China and east of England.
News categories: International Launch Services, TURKSAT, Content Distribution, Europe, Middle-East, Satellite, Turkey

FTA UltraHD TV channel to debut on AsiaSat 4
Oct 10, 2015 – AsiaSat and Rohde & Schwarz have partnered to advance next-generation Ultra HD (UHD) TV technologies by implementing the first free to air (FTA) UHD channel on AsiaSat 4. The UHD channel will launch at 122°E this month.
News categories: Rohde & Schwarz, AsiaSat, Heino Gregorek, Sabrina Cubbon, Asia, Digital TV, Satellite

More than 69 million pay TV subscribers in Latin America in Q2 2015
Oct 7, 2015 – According to Dataxis, the Latin American pay-TV market has exceeded 69 million subscribers, equivalent to a 37.7% penetration of total households. Satellite once again leads the technology ranking but has lost share.
News categories: Dataxis, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

NAGRA powers Hinduja Group NXT Digital 'HITS' platform
Oct 1, 2015 – NAGRA (SIX:KUD.S) has announced that its anyCAST content protection and OpenTV middleware are enabling the Hinduja Group’s NXT Digital 'HITS' platform which will provide backend operations to local and multi-system cable operators in India.
News categories: NAGRA, Hinduja Ventures, Jean-Luc Jezouin, Tony D’Silva, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, India, Middleware, Satellite

Pay TV subscribers pass 5 million in Colombia
Sep 28, 2015 – According to figures from Colombia's Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) and Autoridad Nacional de Televisión (ANTV), the number of pay TV subscribers in the country passed the 5 million mark in July.
News categories: Autoridad Nacional de Televisión, Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones, Cable TV, Colombia, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers