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Magyar Telekom announces 2008 full year results
Feb 24, 2009 – Magyar Telekom (NYSE: MTA)(Budapest: MTELEKOM) has reported its results for 2008. Demand for the new satellite TV product was very strong, the number of customers reached 5,000 by the end of the year with additional 13,000 orders received.
News categories: Magyar Telekom, Hungary, IPTV, Montenegro, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

RCN Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results
Feb 24, 2009 – RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) has announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008. The digital video penetration rate rose to 87% of video customers from 69% in the fourth quarter of 2007 and 78% in the third quarter of 2008.
News categories: RCN Corp, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

2008 Global FTTH Shipments Rise 71%
Feb 23, 2009 – According to DITTBERNER, annual FTTH shipments were up a slower than forecast 71% in 2008. Slower growth than projected for Europe and Korea is the main reason, offset by a higher than expected growth in China.
News categories: DITTBERNER, CPE, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research

Liberty Global Reports Fiscal 2008 Results
Feb 23, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. With 501,000 additions during Q4, digital video remained the strongest growing business for the seventh consecutive quarter.
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

Blu-ray disc sales to exceed 100 million units in 2009
Feb 23, 2009 – Research from Futuresource Consulting reveals that consumers are on target to buy in excess of 100 million Blu-ray discs (BD) across the USA, Western Europe and Japan this year.
News categories: Futuresource, Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Market Research

New Zealand Sky Television Reports 2008 Interim Result
Feb 20, 2009 – New Zealand's SKY Television has reported a new all time high in subscriber numbers of 759,069 (as of 31 December 2008). This figure reflects a net gain of 10,493 additional subscribers for the six months ending 31 December 2008.
News categories: SKY Television, New Zealand, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

Telenet Full Year 2008 results
Feb 20, 2009 – Telenet Group (Brussels: TNET) has announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2008. Telenet had 674,000 subscribers to its digital television services - 609,000 Telenet Digital TV subscribers and 65,000 INDI subscribers.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

TVN Group announces results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008
Feb 20, 2009 – TVN Group has announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008. The 'n' DTH platform increased its subscriber base by 142 thousand in the three months ended December 31, 2008.
News categories: TVN Group, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

PRISA's EBITDA reached €948 million
Feb 19, 2009 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS) has reported full-year revenue of 4,001.35 million euros for 2008. Average Digital+ subscriber revenue per head was 44.5 euros per month over the fourth quarter of 2008, with a total subscriber base of 2,035,000.
News categories: PRISA, DIGITAL+, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers