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

ZON announces 1H08 Consolidated Results
Jul 30, 2008 – ZON Multimédia (Lisbon:ZON) has announced unaudited results for the First Half of 2008. During 1H08, ZON's Pay TV customer base grew by 9.9 thousand customers to 1,557 thousand.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Set Top Box Unit Shipments Spike As Digital TV Services Proliferate
Jul 29, 2008 – Strong demand from Free-to-Air satellite service, coupled with the expanding availability of digital cable TV and IPTV services, fueled a record-setting number of digital set top box unit shipments in 2007 according to In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Toshiba to end direct-to-handset satellite broadcasts
Jul 29, 2008 – Toshiba will end its direct-to-handset satellite broadcasting service in Japan in March next year after several years of losses caused by poor consumer acceptance.
News categories: Toshiba, MBCO, Digital TV, Japan, Mobile, Satellite

Pace plc Interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2008
Jul 28, 2008 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2008. Volume shipments were up 55% to 2.8m set-top boxes compared with 1.8m in the same six months of 2007.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

MultiChoice Launches High Definition Television
Jul 25, 2008 – MultiChoice has announced the launch of its High-Definition Personal Video Recorder (HD PVR). The introduction of High Definition television is another milestone achievement for television in South Africa.
News categories: MultiChoice, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, South Africa

Vivendi Reports First Half 2008 Revenues Up 10.2%
Jul 24, 2008 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) had revenues in the first half 2008 of €11,268 million. As of June 30, 2008, 80% of TPS subscribers had been transferred to the CanalSat platform confirming the goal of having a single platform by end 2008.
News categories: Vivendi, Digital TV, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Thomson: First Half 2008 Results
Jul 24, 2008 – In 2Q08 Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS) shipped 2.8 million satellite set-top boxes, 1.5 million cable set-top boxes and modems/eMTAs, and 2.9 million access products for telecom operators - making a total of 7.3 million in the quarter.
News categories: Thomson, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Telmex Internacional Second Quarter 2008
Jul 23, 2008 – In the second quarter the consolidated revenues of Telmex Internacional (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) totaled 18.544 billion pesos. In Brazil, cable TV provider Net had close to 2.7 million pay TV subscribers and 1.8 million broadband Internet users.
News categories: Telmex, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Telenor (Canal Digital) Second Quarter 2008
Jul 23, 2008 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group of Telenor (Oslo:TEL) increased primarily due to higher revenues from sales of additional services to cable TV subscribers, hardware sales to DTH and cable TV subscribers, and resale of EURO2008 distribution rights.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial