The number of German TV households using cable TV has dropped from 57.6 per cent in 2005 to 52.7 per cent in 2010, according to a study by German magazine Focus. At the same time, the number of satellite TV households has grown from 41.2 per cent to 45.7 per cent and households using digital […]
Hard on the heels of their Budget Package, Time Warner Cable is testing a high-end $199.99 per month service option called Signature Home. Signature Home includes: – A whole-house digital video recorder system including two networked HD DVR set-top boxes(able to record four HD programmes simultaneously, and store 150 hours of HD content or 400 […]
UPC Hungary, part of Liberty Global, is set to purchase a third of the cable television network of Fibernet Kommunikációs. The transaction could be completed in the first quarter of 2011 after receiving the approval of the competition office GVH. Fibernet provides cable television, broadband, Internet and telephone services to over 150,000 households. The purchase […]
Time Warner Cable has confirmed the launch of Time Warner Cable TV Essentials, a new video-only package designed to address the video needs of customers facing difficult choices during tough economic times. The Time Warner Cable TV Essentials Package will begin commercial trials in the coming weeks in Time Warner Cable’s New York City and […]
According to SNL Kagan’s analysis the US multichannel segment fell by 119,000 customers in the third quarter of 2010, compared to a 346,000 gain reported in third-quarter 2009. US cable operators lost 741,000 basic video customers in third-quarter 2010, marking the single largest quarterly dip for cable since Kagan began compiling data for the segment […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO ended the third quarter of the year with 948,000 TV subs, down 1.9 per cent against the previous quarter and 3 per cent lower than last year with a loss of 29,000 in a year. The fall in its TV subscribers (TV customers represent 52.4 per cent of its total […]
Almost one in five Americans cancelled or scaled back their cable TV service in the last six months to save money, according to a poll from research firm Harris Interactive. About 22 per cent of respondents said they downgraded or eliminated their cable TV service, and another 21 per cent considered it over that time, […]
Six months before its start, ANGA Cable, the leading European Trade Fair for Cable, Broadband and Satellite, announces a record demand for stand space. Binding registrations have been received from 160 companies for more than 50% of the exhibition space of the previous year. This exceeds clearly the booking situation at that time of the […]
The lenders of German cable operator PrimaCom have confirmed that they have taken over the company in a debt-for-equity swap. In exchange for writing down PrimaCom’s loans, the lenders – including US-based hedge fund Tennenbaum Capital Partners, Avenue Capital Group and London-based Alcentra Group – will acquire all of the shares in holding company Medfort […]
Digital TV technology specialist Pace has acquired Latens Systems, the Belfast-based specialist in software-based Conditional Access/DRM and Middleware solutions for the pay-TV market in a £28.75 million (E32.72m) cash deal, of which £10 million is deferred and payable in 2012 subject to the achievement of conditions. Latens offers its solutions across cable, IPTV, DTH,and DTT, […]