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Mediaset Raises Paying Customers

by Tom Allen

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset’s pay-DTT subsidiary, Mediaset Premium, has increased its subscriber base by 112,000 since June. Its total base now stands at 1.8 million.

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Canal+ Climbs in International Markets

by Tom Allen

Canal+ Group had 15.4 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2015, an increase of 619,000 compared to the same period last year. The company’s ‘strong’ performance in Vietnam and Africa, and of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 45

SFR and Nagra Launch UltraHD in France

by Tom Allen

French pay-TV operator SFR has launched a new UltraHD service, with Nagra. ‘La Box Fibre Zive de SFR’ uses Nagra’s content protection system on its multimedia home gateway, and Medialive multiscreen and video player …

Tags:4k| France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Q3 ‘Cord Cutting’ Decline Anticipated by TDG Research

by Isaac Oburu

According to research conducted by TDG in the first half of 2015, the percentage of adult broadband users moderately to highly likely to cancel their pay-TV service declined 20% between early 2014 and 2015. …

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Colmbian Pay-TV Enjoys Small Rise

by Tom Allen

According to Dataxis, the pay-TV market in Colombia will reach 5.8 million households by 2018: a 3.4% rise from end-2015. Households with CATV services will have a 64.8% share of the country’s pay-TV market. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 45

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BT TV adds 106K TV Users

by Milos Pavlovic

BT in the UK said that it has added 106,000 TV subscribers in Q3 2015, its best ever growth, bringing its TV customer base to 1.3 million. The company highlighted the BT Sport Europe …

Tags:BT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 44

German AV to Top €10 Billion

by Tom Allen

Revenue generated by the German AV market will exceed €10 billion this year for the first time. The forecast comes from the Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT). VPRT expects …

Tags:Advertising| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| SVOD| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 43

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Amazon Seeks to Launch Online TV Service

by Tom Allen

According to Bloomberg, Amazon is looking to create an online pay-TV service. The company is said to have contacted broadcasters such as CBS and NBC Universal about channel carriage. Discussions are still in an …

Tags:Amazon| Comcast| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Pay-TV Subs Rise, Revenues to Stay Flat

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV subscribers across 89 countries will increase by 200 million between 2014 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. There were 704 million subscribers in 2014, and are forecast to be 904 million by 2020. …

Tags:Comcast| DirecTV| Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Pay TV| Sky| SVOD| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 41| Worldwide

French Pay-DTT Faces Challenges

by Tom Allen

An investigation by Tele Satellite has shown that French broadcasters are ‘no longer allowing’ viewers to subscribe to their paid services from the pay-DTT platform. Instead, viewers are directed to IPTV, satellite and other …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Hungarian Pay-TV Continues to Grow

by Tom Allen

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that around 3.44 million homes in the country are now taking a pay-TV service. The 10 largest pay-TV providers were responsible for 3.16 million of these. The eight largest …

Tags:Hungary| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 37

MaxLinear Launches New Four-Channel Full-Spectrum Capture™ Satellite Receiver ICs

by Tom Allen

MaxLinear Inc. (NYSE: MXL), a leading provider of integrated radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal integrated circuits for broadband communications applications, today announced a new family of four-channel Full Spectrum Capture™ (FSC™) tuner-demodulator devices that …

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