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

Dish TV Earnings Release for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2007
Jan 25, 2008 – Dish TV India added 297,000 new subscribers during 3Q, up from 278,000 additions in 2Q, an increase of 7%. The gross subscriber base stood at 2.7 million on December 31, 2007.
News categories: DishTV, Digital TV, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

New Zealand - Freeview On A Roll after Successful 2007
Jan 24, 2008 – Freeview take-up figures continue to climb steadily upwards, a mere eight months since the launch of free-to-air digital television and radio in New Zealand. The total number of households reached is an estimated 78,700 or 5% of all homes.
News categories: Freeview NZ, Digital TV, Market Research, New Zealand, Satellite

New Video Channels Continue to be Main Growth Driver for Satellite Capacity
Jan 24, 2008 – NSR projects that worldwide carriage of new standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) channels for all categories of television services will account for between 75% and 85% of C- and Ku-band transponder demand growth in most regions around the world.
News categories: Northern Sky Research, Digital TV, DVB-S2, Market Research, Satellite

Orange 'planning' French DTH platform
Jan 24, 2008 – Canal Plus is facing competition on the home front after it emerged that France Telecom's Orange was preparing to launch a rival DTH platform.
News categories: Orange, France Telecom, Digital TV, France, Satellite

MSNBC's free satellite TV launched in South Africa
Jan 21, 2008 – Satellite TV will never be the same in South Africa, as Free2view has unveiled southern Africa's newest window to the world, MSNBC Africa.
News categories: Free2View, Digital TV, Satellite, South Africa

Bell brings the Personal Video Recorder to more Canadians
Jan 21, 2008 – Bell Canada has announced the inclusion of its Personal Video Recorder (PVR) - the country's most advanced - in all of its new Bell Better Home™ service bundles.
News categories: Bell Canada, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite

MENA: Showtime pirates outnumber subscribers 10-1
Jan 18, 2008 – Pay TV piracy is growing so fast that the number of viewers watching Showtime's service illegally is 10 times greater than the number of genuine subscribers.
News categories: Showtime DTH, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middle-East, Satellite

In Europe, IPTV grows stronger in less 'cabled' TV markets
Jan 16, 2008 – According to the newest edition of TV Markets Quarterly Monitoring from InfoCom, during 2Q07 most of the television viewers in Western Europe still prefer receiving television service over terrestrial.
News categories: InfoCom GmbH, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

SFR and Alcatel-Lucent field validated the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH Mobile TV terrestrial network
Jan 16, 2008 – Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) has announced that, following a DVB-SH pilot with SFR, both companies validated the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH network co-localized, for its terrestrial part, with an existing commercial 3G+ network.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, SFR, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Satellite