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

Motive Television signs contract with South Africa's Siyaya TV
Dec 30, 2013 – Motive Television (AIM: MTV.LN) has announced that it will install, integrate, and operate Siyaya's VOD platform in conjunction with the launch of Siyaya's TV services on the Sentech Freevision DTH satellite service in South Africa.
News categories: Motive Television, Leonard M Fertig, Content Distribution, Satellite, South Africa

Stereo+ receives satellite broadcasting licence for Georgia
Dec 27, 2013 – The Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) has announced that Stereo+ has received a satellite broadcasting license for the country, valid for 10 years.
News categories: Georgian National Communications Commission, Digital TV, Georgia, Regulation, Satellite

U.S. Energy Dept., Pay TV industry and energy efficiency groups announce STB energy conservation agreement
Dec 23, 2013 – The U.S. Energy Department, NRDC, ACEEE, ASAP, CEA and the NCTA have announced non-regulatory energy efficiency standards for pay-TV set-top boxes that will result in energy savings for more than 90 million U.S. homes.
News categories: Consumer Electronics Association, NCTA, Energy Department, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

Georgia's New Media Achara adds satellite broadcasting licence
Dec 19, 2013 – The Georgian National Communications Commission has announced that New Media Achara Ltd has been given a satellite broadcasting licence. New Media Achara already carries out broadcasting activities via cable.
News categories: Georgian National Communications Commission, Digital TV, Georgia, Regulation, Satellite

Ecuador adds 108,000 pay TV subscribers in 3Q 2013
Dec 19, 2013 – Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of September 2013. There were 849 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 741 thousand at the end of June, and up from 454 thousand at the same time in 2012.
News categories: SUPERTEL, Cable TV, Digital TV, Ecuador, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Spain's rate of pay TV subscriber loss slows to 31,000 in 3Q 2013
Dec 18, 2013 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the third quarter of 2013. Total pay TV subscribers dropped to 3.74 million at the end of the quarter, down from around 4.20 million the year before.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

3.2 million pay TV subscribers in Ukraine's 33 largest cities
Dec 17, 2013 – Ukraine's Chamber of Telecommunications (Telekompalata) has released pay TV subscriber figures for the country for the 3rd quarter of 2013. The figures, by city, are broken down by operator.
News categories: Telekompalata, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Ukraine

Hrvatski Telekom deploys SmarDTV SmarCAM-3.5 CI Plus modules
Dec 16, 2013 – SmarDTV (SIX:KUD.S) has announced that Croatian Telecom has deployed its SmarCAM-3.5 conditional access modules (CAM) in its network in Croatia.
News categories: SmarDTV, Hrvatski Telekom, Željko Stunković, Eric Chaubert, CAM, Croatia, Digital TV, Satellite, Smart TV

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