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

Gateway Chooses NDS Content Protection for New African DTH Service
Feb 26, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been selected by Gateway Communications to provide a security system, featuring its VideoGuard® conditional access (CA), for GTV its newly created satellite TV service for Sub-Saharan Africa.
News categories: NDS Group, GTV, Botswana, Burundi, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Satellite, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Sri Lanka - Dialog Satellite TV Launched
Feb 24, 2007 – Asset Media, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka's flagship telecommunications company Dialog Telekom Ltd, today launched Dialog Satellite TV - a premier satellite television service set to revolutionize Direct to Home Television in Sri Lanka.
News categories: Digital TV, Satellite, Sri Lanka

China Satellite Mobile Selects CMB Satellite for S-Band Satellite Capacity for the China Mobile Video Project
Feb 22, 2007 – China Satellite Mobile Broadcast Limited (CSM) has announced that it has selected China Mobile Broadcasting Satellite (CMBSat) as the primary provider of S-band satellite capacity for China's mobile video project.
News categories: EchoStar, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, Satellite

Gateway to launch pan-African pay-TV Service
Feb 22, 2007 – Gateway Communications has announced the launch of GTV, a pan-African pay-TV satellite delivered service. It will provide a unique bouquet of content with a subscription price aimed at penetrating the underserved African television market.
News categories: Gateway Communications, Africa, Digital TV, Satellite

EchoStar Invests $40 Million in TU Media Corp.
Feb 21, 2007 – EchoStar Asia Holdings, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications (NASDAQ:DISH), has announced that it has invested $40 million in TU Media, South Korea's only operator of S-DMB services with more than one million subscribers.
News categories: EchoStar, TU Media, Digital TV, Korea, Mobile, Satellite

The Kudelski Group achieves strongest-ever financial results in 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX KUD.VX) has announced strongest-ever 2006 results. For the first time, Digital TV broke the CHF 500 million revenue mark, with a particularly robust development in Europe, growing by 17% compared to the previous year.
News categories: Kudelski, Belgium, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Middleware, Mobile, Poland, Results, Romania, Satellite, Semiconductor, Slovakia, Spain, Streaming, USA

MTG Financial Results for the 4th Quarter and year ended 31 December 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – Viasat - Net intake of 41,000 premium subscribers in Q4 - 123,000 subs added in last 12 months = 20% growth in premium subscriber base.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Thomson Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 Results
Feb 15, 2007 – In a strong Q4, Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) shipped 2.9 million satellite set-top boxes (4Q05, 2.8 million) and 0.9 million cable STBs (4Q05, 0.3 million). Thomson shipped 11.1 million satellite STBs in 2006 (2005, 10.9 million) and 2.0 million cable STBs (2005, 0.6 million).
News categories: Thomson, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, France, Gateway, Germany, India, Netherlands, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Singapore, UK, USA

Telenor Fourth quarter and preliminary results for the year 2006
Feb 15, 2007 – The number of direct-to-home (DTH) pay TV subscribers increased by 14,000 in the fourth quarter of 2006, reaching 943,000, while the number of cable TV subscribers increased by 5,000 to 696,000.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers