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China Digital TV Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2008 Results
Nov 6, 2008 – China Digital TV Holding (NYSE: STV) shipped approximately 2.21 million smart cards during the third quarter, an increase of 16.9% from the corresponding period in 2007 and a decrease of 17.8% from the second quarter of 2008.
News categories: China Digital TV Holding, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Results

Charter Reports Third Quarter Financial and Operating Results
Nov 6, 2008 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR) has reported financial and operating results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2008. Digital video customers increased by approximately 61,600 during the third quarter.
News categories: Charter Communications, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Virgin Media Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Nov 6, 2008 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Total TV net additions were 37,800 in the quarter (Q2-08: 24,800; Q3-07: 20,400).
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, UK

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

Swisscom releases January-September 2008 Interim Report
Nov 5, 2008 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) closed the first nine months of 2008 with net revenue of CHF 9,085 million. At the end of September 2008 'Bluewin TV' was used by 95,000 paying customers, a growth of 43,000 compared with the previous year.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Time Warner Cable Reports 2008 Third-Quarter Results
Nov 5, 2008 – Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008. The company added 124,000 digital video subscribers in the quarter to give a total of 8,607 million.
News categories: Time Warner Cable, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Trident Microsystems Reports Results for First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009
Nov 3, 2008 – Trident Microsystems (Nasdaq: TRID) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. For the quarter, the company reported net revenues of $34.8 million, a 61% decrease from the $88.2 million reported in the year before quarter.
News categories: Trident Micro, Results, Semiconductor, Smart TV