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Tricolor TV Gains 760,000 Subscribers in 2016

by Alan Spencer

Tricolor TV increased the number of new connections to 760,000 in 2016, according to Broadband TV News. The company is the most popular Pay-TV operator in Russia’s and ends the year with 12.14 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Russia| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Irdeto CA Deployed for Russia’s MTS

by Alan Spencer

Irdeto CA has been deployed to over 2 million subscribers of the Russian telecommunications group, MTS. Irdeto’s scalable CA solution now securely delivers the Russian broadcaster’s television services across nine different time zones, representing …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Russia| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Viaccess-Orca and ContentArmor Work on 4K Content Protection

by Alan Spencer

Viaccess-Orca and ContentArmor have joined forces to strengthen the protection of UHD and 4K premium content. ContentArmor watermark technology has been integrated into the full range of Viaccess-Orca’s Sentinel content protection solutions, including hybrid …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Pay TV| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 05

MENA Pay-TV Revenue Forecast Downgraded

by Alan Spencer

In the new edition of the Middle East and North Africa Pay TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research, Pay-TV revenues have been downgraded. They are forecast to reach $4 billion in 2021, which …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Vodafone Halts Plans for UK pay-TV Service

by Alan Spencer

Vodafone has halted plans to launch a UK pay-TV service. Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive, told The Telegraph that the service was ready and could be launched within weeks but that Vodafone now has …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Telekom Austria Sees Modest Growth in Pay-TV

by Alan Spencer

Last year, Telekom Austria saw modest growth in its pay-TV businesses in Bulgaria and Croatia. In Bulgaria, it ended the year with 478,200 pay-TV RGUs representing a 3.3% increase on the total at the …

Tags:Austria| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Sub-Saharan Africa pay TV thrives Despite Falling Prices

by Bob Raikes

Most of the main pay TV operators in Sub-Saharan Africa lowered their prices during 2016 to ward off competitors. The knock-on effect was that other platforms lowered their fees. Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Pay-TV will See Downturn in 2017

by Yvette Raikes

It is estimated that one-in-five US adults will not watch pay-TV in 2017, preferring to opt for on-demand OTT services, according to eMarketer. It estimates that 1.7 million adults will stop subscribing to cable …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 02

MStar announces support for Nagra’s TVkey

by Bob Raikes

MStar has said that it will integrate support for Nagra’s TVKey technology pending finalisation of a new TVkey licensing body. The MStar EMC TVkey integration is intended to enable pay-TV service providers to deliver …

Tags:DRM & Content Protection| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Portugese Pay TV Still Growing

by Bob Raikes

The Portugese Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) authority said that at the end of Q3, the number of Pay TV subscribers had increased to 3.639 million, up 44,000 on Q2 and 159,000 up on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Portugal| TV Reception| Vol 23 - Issue 50

PwC Sees OTT as an Add-on

by Bob Raikes

PwC has found that the rate of cord-cutting in the US has slowed down after surveying 1200 US consumers, and it sees OTT services now developing as add-on to traditional Pay TV, rather than …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Spain’s Pay-TV Market is Booming

by Yvette Raikes

According to the report from CNMC, 671,000 subscribers have been added to Spain’s pay-TV market in the last year. Market leader Telefónica now has 3.71 million clients, having gained 128,00 over the year, while …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 23 - Issue 48