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

Bharti Airtel Launches Its Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV Service in India Powered by Broadcom® Technology
Dec 16, 2008 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced that Bharti Airtel has selected Broadcom's highly integrated satellite set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to power its direct-to-home (DTH) TV services - Airtel digital TV.
News categories: Broadcom, Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, DVB-S2, India, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Tata Sky Achieves 3 Million Connections in India on End-to-End NDS Platform
Dec 16, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has acknowledged that Tata Sky has achieved another major milestone in reaching 3 million subscribers within a period of just 27 months. The latest 1 million subscribers were gained in just seven months.
News categories: NDS Group, Tata Sky, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, India, Middleware, Satellite, Subscribers

Astro announces Quarterly Financial Results Q3 FY2009
Dec 15, 2008 – Malaysia's ASTRO All Asia Networks (Kuala Lumpur:ASTRO) has announced its unaudited consolidated results for the third quarter ended 31 October 2008. Astro TV subscribers increased by 96 thousand to 2.565 million at the end of the quarter.
News categories: ASTRO All Asia Networks, India, Malaysia, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Ciel II Satellite Successfully Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome
Dec 11, 2008 – The Ciel Satellite Group has announced that its Ciel II communications satellite has been launched. Ciel II will be providing HDTV services into the North American market with DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) as the anchor customer.
News categories: Ciel Satellite, Content Distribution, North America, Satellite, USA

Economic Weakness Impacts Set-top Box Market in the Third Quarter, According to Dell'Oro Group
Dec 10, 2008 – Dell'Oro Group has reported that the worldwide Set-top Box (STB) market contracted 2 percent sequentially in the third quarter of this year to $3.5 billion, due in large part by declines in both cable and satellite unit shipments.
News categories: Dell'Oro, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Intelsat, Convergence Partners Form New Dawn Joint Venture to Grow Africa's Telecommunications Infrastructure
Dec 9, 2008 – Intelsat has announced a joint venture with a South African investor group to build and launch a new satellite optimized to deliver wireless backhaul, broadband and television programming to the African continent.
News categories: Intelsat, Convergence Partners, Africa, Content Distribution, Satellite, South Africa

SARFT to purchase 3.5 million satellite set-top boxes
Dec 5, 2008 – According to INTERFAX, China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) will open a tender on Dec. 9 for 3.5 million set-top boxes for distribution as part of the impending launch of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV.
News categories: SARFT, China, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box

RTVE and Abertis Telecom sign agreement to supply 100% of Spanish homes with DTT
Dec 4, 2008 – Televisión Española and Abertis Telecom have signed an agreement to ensure that 100% of the Spanish population can receive TVE's DTT programmes. Terrestrial will reach 98.5% of the population with the remaining 1.5% being covered via satellite.
News categories: Abertis Telecom, Televisión Española, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Spain

Global and China Digital STB (Set-top Box) Market Report, 2008
Dec 4, 2008 – In 2007, 140 million STBs were sold worldwide, the overall sales percentage of satellite STBs was 46%, and IP STB gained the highest sales growth with a figure of 4.53 million, increased by 77% comparing 2006.
News categories: Research In China, Research and Markets, Cable TV, China, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box