Europe Digital TV News

ZON Multimédia Consolidated Results First Nine Months 2008
Nov 9, 2008 – ZON (Lisbon:ZON) has announced results for the First Nine Months of 2008. During 9M08, the Pay TV customer base reduced by 8.0 thousand to 1,539 thousand, a result of the combination of a net reduction in DTH subscribers and growth in cable subscribers.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Telecom Italia Interim Financial Statements (to September 30, 2008)
Nov 7, 2008 – The Telecom Italia (Italy:TIT)(NYSE:TI) Board of Directors has examined and approved the Group's Q3 2008 Interim Report on Operations. The IPTV subscriber base grew by 138,000 customers versus year-end 2007 to 218,000.
News categories: Telecom Italia, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers

Belgacom Quarterly results Q3 2008
Nov 7, 2008 – Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) gained a total of 137,820 TV users in 2008, including 51,679 in the third quarter. This brings the total TV customer base at the end of September 2008 to 443,139 TV users, including 53,651 second stream.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Voice, Internet and Television - all-in-one via T-Home Macedonia
Nov 7, 2008 – Makedonski Telekom has announced the introduction of its IPTV service in Macedonia, branded as MaxTV. The service will be offered in a triple play package - 3Max - together with Internet and fixed telephony.
News categories: Makedonski Telekom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Macedonia, Middleware

Stage one of UK switchover completed
Nov 7, 2008 – The first stage of UK digital TV switchover has been completed in the Scottish Borders and the technical process ran smoothly, Digital UK has confirmed.
News categories: Digital UK, Digital TV, Terrestrial, UK

Iliad (Free) 3Q 2008 Revenues
Nov 6, 2008 – At 30 September 2008, the Iliad Group (Paris: ILD) had 4,125,000 ADSL subscribers, 3,275,000 under the Free brand and 850,000 under the Alice brand. The Alice acquisition enabled Iliad to meet its 4 million subscriber objective two years in advance.
News categories: Iliad, Fibre, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Deutsche Telekom reports good third quarter of 2008
Nov 6, 2008 – The Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) IPTV service in Germany, Entertain, has around 333,000 customers - an increase of 33 percent within a single quarter. At the end of September, the number of IPTV customers in Eastern Europe was 164,000.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Croatia, Germany, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Virgin Media Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Nov 6, 2008 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Total TV net additions were 37,800 in the quarter (Q2-08: 24,800; Q3-07: 20,400).
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

Entropic's Channel Stacking Switch Technology Tapped by BSkyB and Global Invacom for New Multi-Switch
Nov 6, 2008 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that BSkyB (LSE:BSY) has chosen Global Invacom to supply its new four-channel satellite channel router (SCR) incorporating Entropic's Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology.
News categories: Entropic Communications, BSkyB, Global Invacom, Digital TV, LNB, Satellite, Semiconductor, UK