EU (European Union) Digital TV News

News Corporation Reports Record Full Year Operating Income of $4.45 Billion; Growth of 15% over Fiscal 2006
Aug 8, 2007 – SKY Italia (News Corp - NYSE: NWS, NWSA) reported full year operating income of $221 million, a growth of $182 million over the $39 million reported a year ago. The improvement primarily reflects the addition of 368,000 net new subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.2 million at year-end.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Broadcasters Focus on Mobile TV & IPTV at IBC 2007
Aug 8, 2007 – The roles of mobile TV and IPTV relative to traditional broadcast TV are set to be thoroughly debated when 45,000 broadcasters and film-makers gather for IBC 2007 in Amsterdam, September 6-11.
News categories: Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands

Multimedia Polska Financial Report For 2Q07
Aug 7, 2007 – Multimedia Polska's digital television service provided over PSTN networks (IPTV) had some 2,800 subscribers at the end of the second quarter. The digital television service provided over cable networks (DTV) was taken up by some 2,000 customers.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Decision on German mobile TV licenses seen end-Aug
Aug 7, 2007 – German media authorities should award a national license for mobile television using the DVB-H broadcast standard by the end of the month, a spokeswoman for the directors' conference of the state media authorities said.
News categories: Digital TV, Germany, Mobile

Telenet announces First Half 2007 results
Aug 6, 2007 – By the end of the first half of 2007, Telenet (Euronext Brussels: TNET) had a total of 348,000 subscribers taking one or more premium television services, including 309,000 iDTV subscribers, 33,000 Prime customers (on the former Canal+ platform) and 6,000 customers subscribing to premium content on the former UPC Belgium network.
News categories: Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

France Telecom first half 2007 results
Aug 2, 2007 – ADSL Multiservices rose sharply with 837,000 ADSL television subscribers in France, almost three times the number at 30 June 2006. Added to this is the success of video on demand services (VOD), with 938,000 paying downloads in the first half of 2007.
News categories: France Telecom, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

SES ASTRA Signs Agreements With ARD and ZDF For More Capacity
Aug 2, 2007 – SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has signed two long term agreements with ARD and ZDF to provide additional transponder capacity to the German public broadcasters.
News categories: SES ASTRA, ARD, ZDF, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite

Portugal - TVTEL launches DTH satellite TV
Aug 1, 2007 – The commercial phase of the TVTEL DTH satellite television service has begun, after completion of a testing phase which started in May.
News categories: Digital TV, Portugal, Satellite

ONO Q2 2007 Earnings and Operating Results
Aug 1, 2007 – At the end of the second quarter of 2007, 89% of our total television customer base enjoyed our digital offering. In addition, we launched "ojo", our video on demand service, in Madrid and Barcelona in December 2006 and we expect to launch it in the rest of the former Auna areas in due course.
News categories: Cable TV, Results, Spain, Subscribers