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

FOXTEL Delivers Subscriber, Profit and TV Viewing Share Growth
Aug 13, 2008 – FOXTEL has announced steady growth in subscribers, improved profitability and solid revenue increases in the year ended 30 June 2008. As at 30 June 2008, FOXTEL had a total of 1.54m direct and wholesale subscribers (including installation queue).
News categories: FOXTEL, Australia, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Cyfrowy Polsat interim report for the three months ended June 30, 2008
Aug 13, 2008 – Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw:CPS) has released its interim report for the three months ended June 2008. At the end of the quarter Polsat had 2,287,656 subscribers, 46.5% more than at June 30, 2007, when the figure was 1,561,711 subscribers.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, DVR, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

TVN Group ('n' DTH) reports second quarter 2008 results
Aug 12, 2008 – The TVN Group (Warsaw:TVN) has announced record results for the second quarter of 2008. 'n' DTH subscribers were 326,000 at the end of the quarter.
News categories: ITI Neovision, TVN Group, 'n', Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

ADB Group Reports Record First-Half 2008 Financial Results
Aug 12, 2008 – ADB Holdings (SWX: ADBN) has reported results for the first half of the year 2008. High-definition TV (HDTV) product sales accounted for 67% of the Digital TV Equipment revenue, up from 49% in the first half of 2007 and 57% in the entire year 2007.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Cable TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Devas Multimedia plans DMB service in India
Aug 11, 2008 – Devas Multimedia plans to deliver video and TV channels via a hybrid satellite-terrestrial (DMB) network to mobile devices. Devas is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on a service to be launched in 2009-10.
News categories: ISRO, Digital TV, India, MandA, Mobile, Satellite

Nigerians to have access to 100-250 TV channels by 2010
Aug 8, 2008 – Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and DIGITAL Broadcasting have reached an agreement to enable the 36 states of the Nigerian federation to access 100-250 television stations through a common set-top box within the next 18 months.
News categories: NIGCOMSAT, Digital TV, Nigeria, Satellite, Set Top Box

MultiChoice South Africa to launch HD service with Pace in time for 2008 Olympics
Aug 8, 2008 – Pace (LSE:PIC) is supplying its TDS850IMC HD personal video recorder (PVR) for the launch of MultiChoice South Africa's high definition (HD) service.
News categories: Pace plc, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, South Africa

Portugal Telecom - 2008 first half results
Aug 7, 2008 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for the second quarter and first half, ended 30 June 2008. Net adds for the 'meo' pay-TV service were 70 thousand in the quarter, more than doubling the subscriber base to 116 thousand.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Q2 2008: Premiere increases revenues to EUR 272.4 million
Aug 7, 2008 – As of June 30, 2008, Premiere (PRE.XE) had a total of 4,157,810 customers: 3,554,696 direct subscribers (June 30, 2007: 3,473,174) and 603,114 indirect arena customers.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, CAM, Conditional Access, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers