Digital TV News: Raduga TV

MTG announces 4Q 2014 results
Feb 4, 2015 – MTG (Stockholm: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the quarter ended 31 December 2014. MTG's Nordic broadcasting business delivered higher sales and profits. Higher profits in Emerging Markets free-TV were offset by negative pay-TV earnings.
News categories: MTG, Africa, Baltics, Finland, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Russia's Raduga TV to close down
Dec 1, 2014 – The Russian digital satellite TV platform Raduga TV will stop its broadcasting services on 5 December 2014, as it has not been granted the required broadcasting license from the local media regulator.
News categories: MTG, Raduga TV, Irina Gofman, Digital TV, Regulation, Russia, Satellite

Viasat Nordic satellite subscriber base continues to decline
Feb 13, 2013 – Modern Times Group (MTG) [Stockholm: MTGA, MTGB] has announced results for the quarter ended 31 December 2012. Viasat's Nordic satellite subscriber base ended 2012 at 592,000, down from 603,000 at the end of the previous quarter and from 638,000 at the end of 2011.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Baltics, DVR, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Raduga TV Works With Irdeto To Protect Digital Video Broadcast Offerings
Aug 5, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) has announced that Russia's Raduga TV has implemented Irdeto's Conditional Access System (CAS) and Secure Chipset to protect its Direct To Home (DTH) Satellite Digital Video Broadcast services (DVB-S) and set top boxes (STB).
News categories: Irdeto, Raduga TV, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box

Viasat Nordic DTH down 15,000 in 1Q10
Apr 20, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the quarter ended 31 March 2010. For the period, Viasat added 3,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 8,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Viasat adds 30,000 premium pay-TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2009. For the quarter, Viasat added 21,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 9,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

MTG Acquires 50% of Russian DTH Satellite Pay-TV Platform
Feb 8, 2010 – Modern Times Group (STO:MTGA; STO:MTGB) has announced that it has acquired 50% of Raduga Holdings from Continental Media. Raduga is the sole owner of LCC DaoGeoCom, which operates Russian nationwide DTH satellite pay-TV platform Raduga TV.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Raduga, MandA, Russia, Satellite

Russia's Set-top Box Market Set to Boom
May 13, 2009 – According to IMS Research, over the next 5 years, an estimated 50 million set-top boxes (STBs) will be needed to supply the Russian DTV market, generating well over US$1 billion in STB revenues by 2014.
News categories: IMS Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box

Russia - Raduga TV DTH begins broadcasting
Dec 26, 2008 – GTSS, in co-operation with DalGeokom, has soft-launched a new DTH satellite service - RADUGA TV - for Russia. The package includes more than 40 television channels with a plan to increase the number to 60 in the future.
News categories: GTSS, RADUGA TV, Digital TV, Russia, Satellite