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Cable TV Falls in Double Digits

by Tom Allen

According to Nielsen data, cable TV viewing in the USA was down 12.7% in January, as OTT services continue to gain popularity. Nomura Research, which highlighted the findings, called it ‘one of the worst …

DVB-T Rises in Poland at Expense of DTH

by Tom Allen

Nielsen estimates that, between July 2014 and January 2015, the number of TV households in Poland rose 0.6%, or 77,000 homes, to 13.05 million. Satellite households fell 1% (53,000) to 4.6 million and viewers …

IPTV Continues to Lead in Montenegro

by Tom Allen

At the end of 2014 digital TV subscribers in Montenegro, across all platforms, fell 0.8% (1,242) QoQ, but were up 3.8% (5,692) YoY. The total subscriber base was 154,393, representing 79.26% of households. IPTV …

Chilean Satellite Overtook Wired Pay-TV in 2014

by Tom Allen

At the end of Q3’14, Chile had gained almost 200,000 satellite subscribers (up 16.1%), to more than 1.4 million, according to the Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel). Cable and IPTV subscribers rose from 1.26 million to …

Eutelsat TV Observatory Satellite TV reception

Satellite Dominates Europe

by Vanessa Browning

The Eutelsat TV Observatory has said that satellite DTH was the primary TV reception mode in Europe at the end of 2014. Surveying 15 countries in Western Europe, the ETVO found that 32% of …

TVs Fall But Remain Popular French Screen

by Bob Raikes

France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has said that, in the first half of 2014, the number of TV homes in the country was slightly down, for the first time ever. 96.7% of households …

Brazil Approaches 20 Million Pay TV Subs

by Bob Raikes

Brazilian regulator Anatel has said that the country is likely to exceed 20 million pay-TV subscribers this year. Anatel believes that the growth seen in October (210,000 new subscribers, boosting the total to 19.65 …

TV Anywhere, or TV Nowhere?

by Helen Vince

TV – A fascinating article appeared in early November in the New York Times titled For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party. The author talks about the early days of television, when family and neighbors would gather …

Tags:Cable| Pay TV| TV (Television)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

What I Learned About TV in the Last Two Weeks

by Helen Vince

TV – Over the last two weeks several conferences and exhibitions in New York were dedicated to the TV industry in the USA. This includes the whole spectrum from content creation and producers to broadcasters, …

Tags:Broadcasters| Cable| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Vectra Grows TV Subscribers

by Raverstead

Vectra, the Polish cable operator, ended Q3 with 911,300 subscribers; a 4.5% increase on last year. The majority of these (839,613) received TV services, of which 603,021 were taking digital programming.

EC Appoints Ziggo Monitor

by Raverstead

Following the final approval last month by the European Commission of Liberty Global’s acquisition of Dutch cable operator Ziggo, the Commission has appointed a monitoring trustee to oversee the transaction. CompetitionRx, a London-based company …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Netherlands| Vol 21 - Issue 46

IPTV Rises as Dutch Cable Shrinks

by Raverstead

Telecompaper has said that 55% of Dutch TV subscribers were taking a cable service in Q3’14. At the same time, fibre networks (IPTV) became the third-largest technology for receiving TV, with almost a 10% …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 47