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Telenet Full Year 2008 results
Feb 20, 2009 – Telenet Group (Brussels: TNET) has announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2008. Telenet had 674,000 subscribers to its digital television services - 609,000 Telenet Digital TV subscribers and 65,000 INDI subscribers.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

TVN Group announces results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008
Feb 20, 2009 – TVN Group has announced its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008. The 'n' DTH platform increased its subscriber base by 142 thousand in the three months ended December 31, 2008.
News categories: TVN Group, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

PRISA's EBITDA reached €948 million
Feb 19, 2009 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS) has reported full-year revenue of 4,001.35 million euros for 2008. Average Digital+ subscriber revenue per head was 44.5 euros per month over the fourth quarter of 2008, with a total subscriber base of 2,035,000.
News categories: PRISA, DIGITAL+, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Rogers Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Financial and Operating Results
Feb 18, 2009 – Rogers Communications (TSX: RCI.a; RCI.b)(NYSE: RCI) has announced its results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2008. HDTV digital cable subscribers were up 37% from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, to 568,000.
News categories: Rogers Communications, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Results, Subscribers

Comcast Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End Results
Feb 18, 2009 – Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) has reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. At year-end Comcast's video, high-speed Internet and voice customers totaled 45.6 million, reflecting 2.6 million net additions during 2008.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Portugal Telecom (Meo) full year 2008 results
Feb 18, 2009 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2008. YTD net additions in the pay-TV service reached 291 thousand bringing the total customers to 312 thousand at the end of 2008.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

CANAL+ Cyfrowy: 2008 Financial Results
Feb 16, 2009 – CANAL+ Cyfrowy, operator of Poland's CYFRA+ digital satellite platform, finished 2008 with 1,380,000 subscribers.
News categories: Canal+ Cyfrowy, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Terrestrial and mobile digital TV chip start-up receives $8M investment
Feb 13, 2009 – AltoBeam (BJ) Technology Co. Ltd., a China-based digital terrestrial mobile TV chip maker, has received $8 million in investment from several investors including DFJ Dragon Fund, DFJ, Tano Capital and PYJ-Dynasty Venture Fund.
News categories: AltoBeam, China, Digital TV, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial, Venture Capital

Continued growth for Com Hem in 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – Com Hem is continuing its strong growth in all three service areas. Digital TV is still strong: during the fourth quarter of 2008, the number of subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 468,000 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden