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SKY Italia subscriber base at 4.8 million
May 6, 2009 – News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported results for its third quarter ended March 31, 2009. SKY Italia had net subscriber additions of 290,000 over the past 12 months, bringing the subscriber base to 4.8 million at quarter end.
News categories: News Corp, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

SK broadband broad&tv subscribers down 19.3k in Q1
May 6, 2009 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the First Quarter of 2009. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were down 19.3 thousand in the quarter, and down 126.3 thousand year-on-year, to give 756,092 at quarter-end.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

U.S. Blu-ray Disc Player Sales On the Rise
May 6, 2009 – According to the latest point-of-sale (POS) tracking data from The NPD Group, first quarter (Q1) sales of stand-alone Blu-ray players in the U.S. grew to more than 400,000 units, an increase of 72 percent over Q1 2008.
News categories: NPD, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research, USA

Pay-TV Subscribers Worldwide Will Continue to Grow in 2009
May 6, 2009 – Pay-TV subscribers are expected to grow by 8 percent in 2009 to reach nearly 733 million worldwide despite the challenging economic environment, according to the first quarter update of the Media Forecast from Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
May 5, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. The company added 216,000 RGUs in the first quarter of 2009, driven by strong growth in advanced services, especially digital cable.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Virgin Media adds 41,400 digital TV subscribers in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Total TV net additions were 30,600 in the quarter. At the quarter-end, the company had 611,900 V+ DVR subscribers, a 17% penetration of digital subscribers.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

Telenor (Canal Digital) subscribers fall in Q1
May 5, 2009 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2009. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 17,000 and the number of Telenor cable subscribers fell by 7,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Continued growth for Com Hem in the first quarter of 2009
May 4, 2009 – In the first quarter of 2009 revenues for Com Hem amounted to 1,003 MSEK, an increase of approximately 6 percent compared with the same period in 2008. During the period, the number of Digital TV subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 487,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Web-to-TV Video Streaming Services Will Drive Nearly $3 Billion in Revenue by 2013
May 4, 2009 – According to In-Stat, TV networks and pay TV operators currently view online TV as additive to pay TV services, but Web-to-TV will ultimately force a complete restructuring of today's video services.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Streaming