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

Telstra results for the year ended 30 June 2013
Aug 8, 2013 – Telstra has released its results for the year ended 30 June 2013. TV revenue remained stable at $666 million. The decline in the number of customers on the premium service was offset by growth in IPTV, namely T-Box® sales and Foxtel on T-Box® offerings.
News categories: Telstra, Australia, Cable TV, IPTV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

SKY Italia subscribers down 27,000 in 2Q 2013
Aug 6, 2013 – Twenty-First Century Fox has reported results for the three months and full year ended June 30, 2013. SKY Italia experienced a net reduction of 27,000 subscribers during the quarter, bringing total subscribers to 4.76 million.
News categories: SKY Italia, Twenty-First Century Fox, Germany, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Prime, Entropic deploy single-cable LNB solution at Brazilian satellite operator
Aug 6, 2013 – Entropic (Nasdaq:ENTR) and Prime Electronics & Satellitics have advanced deployment in Brazil. Prime's LNB with Entropic's technology allows DBS operators to support a single satellite, four tuners, and multiplex terrestrial signals all over a single-cable.
News categories: Prime Electronics, Entropic, LNB, Satellite, Semiconductor

741,000 pay TV subscribers in Ecuador at end-June 2013
Aug 6, 2013 – Ecuador's Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUPERTEL) has released pay TV statistics for the country at the end of June 2013. There were 741 thousand subscribers in the Republic at that date, up from 455 thousand at the same time in 2012.
News categories: SUPERTEL, Cable TV, Ecuador, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

DISH Network pay TV subscribers down 78,000 in 2Q 2013
Aug 6, 2013 – DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ending June 30, 2013. Total subscribers declined approximately 78,000 in the second quarter. The company ended the second quarter with 14.014 million pay-TV subscribers.
News categories: DISH Network, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Sky Deutschland adds 47,900 customers in 2Q 2013
Aug 6, 2013 – Sky Deutschland has released results for the second quarter 2013. Net customer growth was 47,900 (Q2 2012: 47,100), bringing the total number of customers to 3,453,000 (Q2 2012: 3,132,000).
News categories: Sky Deutschland, Austria, DVR, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Sigma Designs HomePlugAV chosen by 'yes' for VoD and multi-room
Aug 5, 2013 – Sigma Designs (Nasdaq: SIGM) has announced that 'yes', an Israeli satellite provider, has chosen Sigma Designs, to help strengthen their video-on-demand and multi-room customer services.
News categories: Sigma Designs, 'yes', Israel, Satellite, Semiconductor, Smart Home

32.5 million pay TV subscribers in Russia at end-1H 2013
Aug 5, 2013 – According to iKS-Consulting, the number of pay TV subscribers in Russia at the end of June 2013 was 32.5 million, up 13% compared with the same point in 2012. The number of operators with a subscriber base of over 1 million increased during that time from 5 to 7.
News categories: iKS-Consulting, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Chips&Media delivers AVS+ cores for set-top box in China
Aug 2, 2013 – Chips&Media has announced that it has delivered its CODA966 and CODA988, the first AVS+ enabled cores, to a couple of leading semiconductor companies. The new AVS+ standard is already being used on a trial basis for 3D satellite broadcasting in China.
News categories: Chips&Media, China, Digital TV, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Silicon IP, Terrestrial