Sweden Digital TV News

Telenor (Canal Digital) subscribers fall in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 17,000 and the number of Telenor cable subscribers fell by 7,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Continued growth for Com Hem in the first quarter of 2009
May 4, 2009 – In the first quarter of 2009 revenues for Com Hem amounted to 1,003 MSEK, an increase of approximately 6 percent compared with the same period in 2008. During the period, the number of Digital TV subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 487,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

TeliaSonera January-March 2009
Apr 24, 2009 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) net sales increased 11.5 percent to SEK 27,204 million (24,398). The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 100,000 from the first quarter 2008 to 688,000, of which 509,000 were IPTV subscriptions, up 102,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

MTG (Viasat) Q1 2009 Interim Report
Apr 22, 2009 – Modern Times Group (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the quarter ended 31 March 2009. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus recordable digital boxes increased to 122,000 from 115,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Tough competition in Swedish digital-TV market continues for Boxer
Apr 16, 2009 – As at 31 March, Boxer had 680,000 digital-TV subscribers. This figure applies to both Sweden and the new operation in Denmark. Overall, the number of customers in Sweden continues to fall as a result of increasing competition.
News categories: Boxer, Denmark, Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

DTT comes of age in Europe
Apr 1, 2009 – Recent data from the MAVISE TV database shows the continued expansion of television channels in the European television market. There are now a total of 5587 channels (plus 412 non-European channels) available in the 29 countries.
News categories: MAVISE, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

Viasat Selects NDS Progressive Download Technology for HD VOD
Mar 24, 2009 – NDS has announced that Viasat (OMX Nordic: MTGA, MTGB) has extended its long-standing relationship with NDS with the addition of NDS' Progressive Download (PDL) technology to the ViasatPlusHD hybrid DVR.
News categories: NDS Group, MTG/Viasat Broadcasting, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, DVR, Finland, Middleware, Norway, Satellite, Set Top Box, Sweden, Ukraine

FastTV launches broadband TV PVR
Mar 3, 2009 – FastTV has launched its broadband TV 160GB personal video recorder (PVR) for the Scandinavian market.
News categories: FastTV, Denmark, DVR, Norway, Set Top Box, Streaming, Sweden

EU Member States on course for analogue terrestrial TV switch-off
Feb 16, 2009 – The switch-off of analogue terrestrial TV transmission in Europe is well on track. Switch-off has already been completed in five Member States and by 2010 the process should be well advanced in the whole EU.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK