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

4.165 million pay TV subscribers in Spain at end-Q2 2012
Nov 26, 2012 – According to a survey of ICT in Spanish households released by the country's National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), there were 4.165 million pay TV subscribers in Spain at the end of the second quarter of 2012, representing 24.2% of Spanish homes.
News categories: ONTSI, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

DTV and Digital Home Seeing Overall Development in China
Nov 23, 2012 – According to CCID Consulting, the development of China's DTV industry in 2011 was mainly represented by cable DTV and IPTV, whereas terrestrial and satellite DTV experienced little growth. In 2011, the scale of China's DTV industry reached RMB 279.40 billion.
News categories: CCID Consulting, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial

Tricolor TV HD subscribers reach 500,000 in Russia
Nov 22, 2012 – Russian satellite TV operator Tricolor TV has announced that it already has more than 500,000 subscribers to the 'FullHD' HDTV service that it launched 4 months ago.
News categories: Tricolor TV, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Sri Lanka's SupremeSAT satellite launch delayed due to weather
Nov 22, 2012 – The scheduled launch of the SupremeSAT communications satellite has been delayed by five days due to poor weather conditions. The Sri Lankan satellite is intended for direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast television services.
News categories: SupremeSAT, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Satellite, Sri Lanka

Cable TV Losing Subscribers to Satellite and IPTV
Nov 20, 2012 – Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its November 2012 Pay TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyzes the telco Internet protocol television (IPTV), cable video, and satellite video services markets.
News categories: Infonetics, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite

TivùSat reaches 1.7 million active smart cards
Nov 20, 2012 – The Italian satellite TV platform TivùSat has announced that in November it had more than 1.7 million active smart cards in 1.43 million households, representing 5.6% of Italian families.
News categories: Tivù, Digital TV, Italy, Satellite, Subscribers

Dutch digital TV connections grow to 6.3 million in Q3 2012
Nov 20, 2012 – The number of digital TV connections in the Netherlands grew by 1.6 percent during the third quarter of 2012 to 6.3 million on 30 September 2012, according to Telecompaper's quarterly Dutch Television Subscribers report.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Digital TV in Lithuania up 18% year-on-year at end 3Q 2012
Nov 16, 2012 – Lituania's Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) has released statistics for the Lithuanian communications sector in the third quarter of 2012. At the end of the period the number of subscribers to digital television services totalled 374.8 thousand, up 18% year-on-year.
News categories: RRT, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, MMDS, Satellite, Terrestrial

53 million STBs to ship in China this year
Nov 16, 2012 – According to figures on the sarft.net web site, set-top box shipments in China will be close to 53 million this year, up 11.1 million units, or 26.4%, from the 41.9 million units shipped in 2011.
News categories: Cable TV, China, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial