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Kudelski Successfully Completes Tender Offer For OpenTV
Nov 13, 2009 – The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.VX) has announced that it has successfully completed its tender offer to acquire Class A shares of OpenTV (NASDAQ: OPTV) not already owned by Kudelski or its subsidiaries for US$1.55 per share.
News categories: Kudelski, OpenTV, Digital TV, MandA, Middleware, Set Top Box

Liberty Global to Acquire Unitymedia
Nov 13, 2009 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement with Unity Media S.C.A. to acquire all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Unitymedia GmbH, Germany's second largest cable operator.
News categories: Liberty Global, Unitymedia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, MandA

Swisscom Bluewin TV adds 21k subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 11, 2009 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its Interim Report for the January - September 2009 period. The number of Bluewin TV customers virtually doubled compared with the previous year to 186,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2009.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

SingTel mio TV IPTV adds 25k subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 11, 2009 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced results for its second quarter ending 30 September 2009. During the quarter, mio TV, SingTel's pay TV service, attracted 25,000 new customers to reach 126,000 as at 30 September 2009.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

StarHub adds 7k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 10, 2009 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has reported 2009 third quarter and year-to-date results. StarHub's pay TV customer base was up 3% year-on-year to 535,000. Digital customers now make up 100% of the total pay TV customer base.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2009 Results
Nov 10, 2009 – China Digital TV (NYSE: STV) has announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. The company shipped approximately 1.96 million smart cards during the quarter, compared to 2.21 million smart cards in the 2008 third quarter.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Cyfrowy Polsat subscriber base grows 73 thousand in Q309
Nov 10, 2009 – Cyfrowy Polsat (Warsaw: CPS) has released its results for the period ended 30 September 2009. Cyfrowy Polsat had 2,916,750 subscribers at quarter end. The company is considering starting production of its own high definition set-top boxes in 2010.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

DISH Network adds 241,000 net subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 9, 2009 – DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) has reported results for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009. DISH Network gained approximately 241,000 net subscribers during the quarter, ending with approximately 13.851 million subscribers.
News categories: DISH Network, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Welho 3Q09 customer base stable at 67 thousand
Nov 6, 2009 – Sanoma Group (Helsinki:SAA1V) has released its interim report for the 1 Jan-30 Sept 2009 period. In line with the Finnish pay TV market, Welho's pay TV operations were stable, down one thousand subscribers versus the same period in 2008.
News categories: Welho, Sanoma, Cable TV, Finland, Results, Subscribers