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BSkyB HD customers reach 4 million
Jan 31, 2012 – BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has announced results for the six months ended 31 December 2011. Total HD customers reached four million, with 138,000 net additions in the final quarter of 2011. Sky added 40,000 TV customers in total in the same period.
News categories: BSkyB, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

Brazil Pay TV grows 30.45% in 2011
Jan 20, 2012 – According to Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel), the country's pay TV subscriber base ended 2011 at 12.7 million, with almost three million new subscribers being added in the year - an annual growth rate of 30.45%.
News categories: Anatel, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers

J:COM cable TV subscribers up 6.9% in 2011
Jan 19, 2012 – J:COM (JASDAQ: 4817) has announced that as of December 31, 2011 the number of cable TV subscribing households served by J:COM's 16 consolidated franchises reached approximately 2.88 million, up 184,400 or 6.9% from December 31, 2010.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Japan, Subscribers

Global IPTV subscribers up 6% in 3Q 2011 to 54.4 million
Jan 12, 2012 – Latest broadband and IPTV figures published by the Broadband Forum show that IPTV subscribers grew by 6.06% in the third quarter of 2011 and now total 54.4 million globally. Asia is the fastest growing region for IPTV.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Russia, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

Pay TV now in more than half of Russian households
Dec 27, 2011 – According to iKS-Consulting, the number of pay TV subscribers in Russia at the end of 2011 is to reach 26 million, a growth rate of 21%, giving a household penetration of greater than 50%.
News categories: iKS-Consulting, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

Romania's digital cable TV subscribers increase 85% in 1H 2011
Dec 14, 2011 – ANCOM has published its first half 2011 report on the Romanian communications market. The total number of pay TV subscribers in the country was steady at around 5.7 million, however the total number of digital cable subscribers grew by 85% in the period.
News categories: ANCOM, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

France's CSA publishes 1H 2011 digital TV penetration survey
Dec 5, 2011 – The CSA has reported latest results from its survey on the penetration of digital TV in French households. 62.6% of households have chosen DTT as their method of digital TV reception, up 2.4 percentage points since the end of 2010.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Cable TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Russia's STB market to be flat at 2.5 million units in 2012
Dec 5, 2011 – According to a report from J'son & Partners commissioned by the European Audiovisual Observatory, the number of set-top boxes shipped this year in Russia will be 2.5 million, with no growth expected in 2012.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, J'son & Partners, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Croatia's satellite subscriptions fall 12% in Q3 2011
Dec 2, 2011 – The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM) has reported communications market data for the end of the third quarter. Satellite TV was the fastest growing segment, with subscriptions growing by nearly a quarter since the end of June.
News categories: HAKOM, Cable TV, Croatia, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial