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Skylink DTH exceeds 900,000 active cards
Jan 13, 2010 – Skylink, the DTH satellite service operating in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has announced that it now has more than 900,000 active customers. Skylink has 660 thousand active cards in the Czech Republic and 240 thousand in Slovakia.
News categories: Skylink, Czech Republic, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

Cogeco digital cable up 32k subscribers in quarter to end-November
Jan 13, 2010 – COGECO (TSX: CGO) has announced results for the quarter ended November 30, 2009. In Canada Digital Television service net additions stood at 16,106. In Europe (Cabovisão) Digital Television service customers grew by 16,114.
News categories: COGECO, Cable TV, Canada, Portugal, Subscribers

Global and China Digital STB (Set-top Box) Market Report, 2009
Jan 12, 2010 – In 2009, the overall conversion to digital TV was completed in 177 cities across China, and cable TV subscribers reached 19.9 million. In the cable set-top box (STB) chip market, STMicroelectronics enjoyed the biggest market share.
News categories: ResearchInChina, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DTMB, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

IPTV subscribers reach 1 million in Russia
Jan 11, 2010 – According to a pay TV report from ComNews Research, the number of IPTV subscribers in Russia reached 1 million at the end of 2009. The segment with the highest growth in absolute terms was satellite with 2 million subscribers being added in the year.
News categories: ComNews Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers

CS Link pay TV card sales exceed 500,000
Jan 11, 2010 – Media Vision, the operator of the CS Link satellite TV platform, has announced that in the last quarter of 2009, sales of pay TV cards passed the 500,000 mark, making a total of over 419 thousand active customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
News categories: CS Link, CAM, Czech Republic, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers

Lattelecom finishes 2009 with 55,000 pay-TV viewers
Jan 5, 2010 – Lattelecom concluded the year with 55,000 pay-TV subscribers. The bulk of the subscribers were Lattelecom IPTV users, with the number reaching 43,000. The remainder were viewers who have chosen to subscribe to Lattelecom's terrestrial TV service.
News categories: Lattelecom, IPTV, Latvia, Subscribers, Terrestrial

IPTV and video equipment and service markets hampered by slowing subscriber growth
Jan 5, 2010 – Market research firm Infonetics Research has published three video-related market share and forecast reports: 'Video Infrastructure and Subscribers', 'Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers', and 'Video Services and Subscribers'.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers

France exceeded 10 million pay TV subscribers at end-2008
Dec 16, 2009 – In a report on the economics of pay TV channels, France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) found that, at the end of 2008, the number of households subscribing to pay-TV was 10.4 million out of a total of 25.5 million TV households in the country.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Cable TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Telco TV Subscribers Expected to Double by 2011, According to ABI Research
Dec 15, 2009 – According to new pay-TV market data from ABI Research, global pay-TV subscribers will number more than 730 million by the end of 2011. North America has the highest subscriber penetration and should reach 115.4 million by the end of 2011.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial