Digital TV News: DEN Networks

TRAI reports pay TV numbers for India at end-2019
Jun 30, 2020 – According to TRAI, Pay DTH had an average active subscriber base of 69.98 million at 31st December 2019. At the same time there were 13 MSOs and 1 HITS operator with a subscriber base of more than one million.
News categories: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

BARC India partners with Airtel Digital TV for Return Path Data
Mar 7, 2018 – BARC India has tied up with Airtel Digital TV to include its subscriber homes in the BARC India Return Path Data (RPD) Panel. This partnership will provide fillip to BARC India’s plan of scaling up panel homes to multiples of the mandated 50,000.
News categories: BARC India, Airtel, Romil Ramgarhia, Sunil Taldar, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

BARC India to measure TV viewing using DEN Networks return path data
Oct 13, 2017 – TV viewership measurement in India is set to get a boost. BARC India has partnered with cable distribution giant DEN Networks for measuring TV viewership using Return Path Data (RPD) via its digital set top boxes (STBs).
News categories: BARC India, DEN Networks, Romil Ramgarhia, SN Sharma, Advertising, Big Data, Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Set Top Box

Top 50 operators take two-thirds of global pay TV subs
Jul 10, 2017 – Pay TV subscriptions for 522 operators reached 839 million in 2016 – or 87% of the 959 million global subscribers, and the top 50 operators accounted for two-thirds of the total, according to Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Worldwide

DEN Networks ends 2016 with 10.2 million digital cable subscribers
Jan 23, 2017 – DEN Networks has announced results for the quarter ended 31 December 2016. The company seeded ~200k STBs during the quarter taking its digital base to 10.2 million.
News categories: DEN Networks, S N Sharma, Cable TV, India, Results, Subscribers

DEN Networks adds 270k digital subscribers in 3Q 2016
Dec 14, 2016 – DEN Networks has announced results for the quarter ended 30 September 2016. The company seeded 270k STBs during the quarter taking its digital base to 10.1 million. DEN is shortly to launch an OTT application.
News categories: DEN Networks, SN Sharma, Cable TV, India, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers

Asia’s top operators to gain pay TV market share
Aug 17, 2016 – Subscriptions for the top 65 pay TV operators across 17 countries covered in Digital TV Research's Asia Pacific Pay TV report will increase by nearly 100 million from a collective 438 million in 2015 to 536 million by 2021.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Asia, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

DEN Networks deploys 1 million STBs in 1Q 2016
May 30, 2016 – DEN Networks has announced results for the fourth quarter of its 2015-16 financial year which ended on March 31, 2016. The company ended the period with 9.4 million digital subscribers, up around 1 million in the final quarter.
News categories: DEN Networks, Cable TV, India, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

DEN Networks adds 1.7 million digital cable subscribers in 2015
Feb 3, 2016 – DEN Networks has announced results for the third quarter of its 2015-16 financial year. The company ended the quarter with 8.5 million digital subscribers, up 945,000 in the quarter and up by 1.7 million year-on-year.
News categories: DEN Networks, Cable TV, India, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers