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

Tata Sky crosses 1 million mark in record time
Aug 8, 2007 – Tata Sky Ltd., the JV between the TATA Group and STAR, has crossed the one million connections mark in its first year of operations. This milestone marks the fastest first million reached by any DTH platform in the world.
News categories: Tata Sky, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Liberty Global Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Liberty Global had 23.1 million total RGUs at June 30, 2007, with 14.7 million video, 4.9 million broadband Internet and 3.5 million telephony subscribers. The 14.7 million video subscribers consisted of 10.9 million analog cable, 2.8 million digital cable and 1.0 million DTH subscribers.
News categories: Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

News Corporation Reports Record Full Year Operating Income of $4.45 Billion; Growth of 15% over Fiscal 2006
Aug 8, 2007 – SKY Italia (News Corp - NYSE: NWS, NWSA) reported full year operating income of $221 million, a growth of $182 million over the $39 million reported a year ago. The improvement primarily reflects the addition of 368,000 net new subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.2 million at year-end.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Bharti Telemedia To Launch DTH Operations by Q4 2007-08
Aug 7, 2007 – Bharti Telemedia, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Ltd., today announced that it plans to launch the Direct To Home (DTH) [satellite TV broadcast] services by the last quarter of FY 2007-08. The company has received the Letter of Intent (LoI) for commencing its DTH services from the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, India, Satellite

Pace Micro Technology announces new Sky business win
Aug 7, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology has announced a new business win with BSkyB. In this latest round of contract awards, Pace has won additional Digibox business for the 2007 financial year.
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Digital TV, Satellite, UK

Amstrad to produce multi-TV Sky box
Aug 5, 2007 – Amstrad and BSkyB are to produce a pioneering set-top box that will link every television in the home, and let viewers record and play back two different programmes on separate TV sets simultaneously.
News categories: Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart Home, UK

India - DishTV launches PC, TV compatible set top box
Aug 5, 2007 – Leading DTH provider DishTV today introduced a new set top box, through which people could watch television programmes on their desktop computers.
News categories: Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

New Features, IP Hybrids and Retail STB Will Drive Set-top Box Markets Past 2010
Aug 3, 2007 – According to a new study from ABI Research, three main drivers will propel the set-top box market in the coming years: advanced features, new interactivity offered by "hybrid STBs", and the possible development of a retail set-top box market.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Ukraine could have 850,000 new DTH subscribers in the next three years
Aug 3, 2007 – EEBC, which organises an annual telecom/broadcasting conference and exhibition in Kiev, was commenting on major developments in the digital TV sector in the country this year.
News categories: Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, Ukraine