EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Premiere encryption system fully secure again
Nov 10, 2008 – Premiere AG (PRE.XE) has today switched off its former encryption signal. All smartcards for the new CA systems of Nagravision and NDS Videoguard have been swapped.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite

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

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

Liberty Global Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Nov 5, 2008 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Digital video, including both cable and DTH, remained the strongest product with 363,000 additions.
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

News Corporation Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009
Nov 5, 2008 – News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported first quarter operating income of $953 million. Sky Italia had net subscriber additions of 359,000 over the past 12 months, bringing the total to over 4.6 million at quarter end.
News categories: Sky Italia, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

TDC: Increased earnings but continued pressure on revenue
Nov 5, 2008 – EBITDA for TDC (Copenhagen:TDC) increased by 4.4% to DKK 9.8bn during the first nine months of 2008 compared to the same period last year. YouSee cable TV subscribers increased to 1.134 million from 1.098 million one year ago.
News categories: TDC, Cable TV, Denmark, Results, Subscribers