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AT&T Adds Video Subs

by Tom Allen

73,000 subscribers joined AT&T’s U-Verse service in Q4, to reach almost 6 million for the year overall. At the end of the quarter, U-Verse TV penetration was about 22%.     

Tags:AT&T| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| TV Reception| TV Viewing| Vol 22 - Issue 05

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 …

Tags:Cable| DVB-T & T2| Large Display Monitor| Poland| Satellite| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

700MHz Consultation Opened in France

by Tom Allen

The French regulator, Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), has opened a public consultation on switching the 700MHz spectrum to services other than broadcast in urban areas. The CSA is seeking comments from all industry stakeholders. …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Colombia Passes 8 Million TV Subs – Unofficially

by Tom Allen

The BB Business Bureau of Argentina estimates that there were almost 8.1 million pay-TV subscribers in Colombia at the end of 2014, up 4.3% YoY. Official figures from the Autoridad Nacional de Television put the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Montenegro digital TV connections

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 …

Tags:Cable| DTV| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

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 …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| Satellite| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

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 …

Tags:Cable| France| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Terrestrial (DTT)| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Latam Pay TV Market is Growing

by Bob Raikes

According to data from Dataxis, quoted in NexTV Latam (Spanish language), there were 66 million Pay TV clients in Latin America in the third quarter of 2014. Satellite was the biggest carrier, with 32.8 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 01

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Television and the Winds of Change

by Helen Vince

TV – As 2014 winds to a close and the next International CES looms large, it’s time to take a look at some of the unprecedented changes that are re-shaping the “business” of television – …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Inflection Points in the TV and Notebook Markets

by Helen Vince

TV – Analysts are always looking for inflection points – moments when lines on charts start to move in different directions.I spotted a couple in the last week. The Asus NX500 uses QDs to deliver …

Tags:Quantum Dots| TV Reception| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Q3’14 Worst on Record for US Pay-TV

by Raverstead

The 13 largest pay-TV providers in the USA (representing 95.3 million video customers – about 95% of the market) lost around 150,000 net video subscribers in Q3’14 – compared to a loss of 25,000 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| TV Reception| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 46

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.

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