Digital TV News: Kabel Deutschland

2.1 million digital TV RGUs for KDG at end-March '09
May 26, 2009 – Germany's largest cable network operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. The overall number of digital TV RGUs amounted to 2.1 million (1.6 million thousand in the previous year).
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

KDG Selects NDS as End-to-end Solution Provider
Apr 30, 2009 – NDS has announced that KDG has selected NDS as end-to-end solution provider to enhance its digital TV platform. KDG operates cable networks in 13 German states and supplies services to approximately 9 million connected households in Germany.
News categories: NDS Group, KDG, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box

Kabel Deutschland with double digit growth rates in revenue and EBITDA
Feb 26, 2009 – KDG was able to further expand its customer base despite the financial and economic crisis. RGUs for digital pay TV grew by 82,900 to a total of 846,300 units. At the end of 2008 the number of all digital pay TV users reached 2 million.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Kabel Deutschland Wins More And More Customers
Nov 26, 2008 – On September 30, 2008 the number of KDG's digital TV RGUs (including 73.3 thousand PVR RGUs) amounted to 1,888.9 thousand (1,392.6 thousand on September 30, 2007), representing a digital TV RGU penetration based on total RGUs of 16.8%.
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Kudelski Group 1st half 2008 - migration to service mode on track
Aug 29, 2008 – The Kudelski Group (SWX: KUD.VX) has announced results for its first half year ended June 30, 2008. In the first half 2008, Nagravision expanded its global reach with 92.3 million active devices for conditional access.
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Kabel Deutschland Presents Record Results
Jul 29, 2008 – Kabel Deutschland has significantly advanced digitization in its cable households: on March 31, 2008 the number of digital TV subscriptions increased to 1.7 million (previous year 1.2 million) including the 778,500 KDG pay TV RGUs.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Q1 2008: Premiere increases revenues to EUR 251.5 million
May 15, 2008 – As of March 31, 2008, Premiere (PRE.XE) had 4,242,467 subscribers (March 31, 2008: 3,460,572), of which 621,908 were indirect arena customers. Compared to Q1 2007 figures, the number of direct subscribers rose by 4.6 percent to 3,620,559.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Kabel Deutschland introduces newest Nagravision conditional access system and extends cooperation
May 13, 2008 – Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) has been selected by Germany's largest cable based television provider Kabel Deutschland (KDG) to protect the content rights and revenues for its forthcoming commercial deployments.
News categories: Nagravision, Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany

European cable industry sees rapid growth in digital TV, telephony and broadband internet
Apr 23, 2008 – Details of 2007 industry revenues and customer volumes were announced at the annual Cable Congress. The number of Digital cable TV customers has more than doubled in the past two years to 13.9m (+40% in 2007 compared to 9.9m in 2006).
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