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

Digital television in 22 million UK households as Freeview and cable show strong growth
Mar 27, 2008 – The number of UK households with digital television on their main set has risen to 22.2 million homes according to The Digital Television Progress Report for Q4 2007 published by Ofcom.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

SNL Kagan estimates over 71 million HD subscribers by 2012
Mar 24, 2008 – SNL Kagan's newest study, "Economics of High Definition Cable Networks," estimates that cable and satellite high definition subscribers will penetrate 65.7% of U.S. multichannel households by 2012, up from 18.8% in 2007.
News categories: Kagan, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Echostar partner Frontier wins E block airwaves
Mar 20, 2008 – Frontier Wireless, a partner of U.S. satellite television company EchoStar, has won wireless airwaves in the "E" block spectrum auction covering almost all of the United States, the FCC has said on.
News categories: FCC, EchoStar, Digital TV, Mobile, Satellite, USA

OTE Group Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter Results Under IFRS
Mar 20, 2008 – Success of RomTelecom's direct-to-home TV service launched in November 2006 continued in the fourth quarter of 2007, with the acquisition of close to 100,000 new customers in the three months bringing the total number of subscribers to 390,000 at year end.
News categories: RomTelecom, OTE, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Results, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

Sun Direct TV Deploys Harmonic's Video Delivery Solutions for India's First MPEG-4 Satellite TV Service
Mar 19, 2008 – Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that Sun Direct TV Private Limited has deployed Harmonic's market-leading digital video solutions for India's first MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast service.
News categories: Harmonic Inc, Sun Direct TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, India, Satellite

India - CASBAA urges digital transformation
Mar 18, 2008 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has released its 'Digital Vision: India in 2012' report providing an up-to-date overview of the opportunities for rapid development of India's digital broadband and TV industries.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Satellite

Satellite Leads European Digitalisation
Mar 18, 2008 – SES ASTRA (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced that according to its most recent annual reach study 83 per cent of the satellite TV households in Europe and North Africa are digitalized.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Africa, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, Market Research, Middle-East, Netherlands, Satellite, Spain, UK

MPA: Indian TV Market to Reach $11.6 Billion by 2012
Mar 17, 2008 – According to Media Partners Asia (MPA), India's digital pay-TV subscribers, including cable, DTH and IPTV, could grow to 38 million by 2012 and 57 million by 2017.
News categories: Media Partners Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Irdeto Secures Personal Video Recorder (PVR) from Thailand's Leading Digital Pay TV Service, TrueVisions UBC
Mar 17, 2008 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that TrueVisions UBC, Thailand's leading digital pay-TV operator, has extended the functionality of its existing Irdeto Digital TV solution to secure its new PVR (personal video recorder) product.
News categories: Irdeto, True Corporation, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, Thailand