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DIRECTV U.S. up 100,000 subscribers and DTVLA up 221,000 in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported first quarter 2010 results. DIRECTV U.S. net subscriber additions were 100,000 to give 18.66 million, and DIRECTV Latin America net subscriber additions were 221,000 to give 4.81 million, at quarter end.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

Cablevision adds 12,000 digital video customers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Cablevision Systems (NYSE:CVC) has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. iO: Interactive Optimum digital video customers were up 12,000 or 0.4% from December 2009 and 58,500 or 2.1% from March 2009.
News categories: Cablevision Systems, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Portugal Telecom meo TV adds 65k subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for its first quarter ended 31 March 2010. In 1Q10 pay-TV accounted for 65 thousand net additions, bringing total pay-TV customers to 646 thousand (up by 68.1% y.o.y).
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Metaverse, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

StarHub adds 2k pay TV subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has announced its results for the quarter ended 31 March 2010. StarHub's, now all-digital, Pay TV customer base increased by 2,000 in the quarter to 541,000.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Swisscom TV adds 45k subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its 2010 first quarter results. The number of Swisscom TV customers almost doubled in the space of a year to 275,000 at the end of March 2010, up 45,000 in the quarter.
News categories: Swisscom, Fastweb, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Iliad (Free/Alice) adds 48k ADSL subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – At 31 March 2010, the Iliad Group (Paris: ILD) totalled more than 4.5 million ADSL subscribers, including 3,866,000 subscribers registered under the Free brand and 638,000 subscribers under the Alice brand.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Canal Digital DTH and Cable TV subscribers down 14,000 in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2010. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 6,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 8,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Trident Microsystems Reports Results for First Quarter Ended Mar. 31, 2010
May 5, 2010 – Trident Microsystems (Nasdaq: TRID) has announced results for its quarter ended Mar. 31, 2010. For the quarter, the company reported net revenues of $90.4 million, which compares with $6.9 million in the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2009.
News categories: Trident Micro, Results, Semiconductor

WYPLAY Secures 9 Million Euro Third Round Financing
May 4, 2010 – WYPLAY SAS has announced that it has closed a 9 million euro third round of financing led by Amundi Private Equity Funds. Wyplay has already experienced success with international Tier 1 clients that include SFR-Vodafone and D-Link.
News categories: WYPLAY, Amundi Private Equity, IPTV, Middleware, Private Equity, Set Top Box, Streaming, Venture Capital