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NDS Group PLC Reports Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Aug 5, 2008 – NDS Group (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. 90.3 million active devices were protected by NDS conditional access technology and 92.5 million middleware clients were deployed at the end of the period.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, DRM, DVR, IPTV, MandA, Market Research, Middleware, Mobile, Private Equity, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Insight Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results
Aug 4, 2008 – Insight Communications Company has announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The digital customer net gain was 9,200, an increase of 300 over net additions in Q2 2007. Total digital customers at quarter end were 406,100.
News categories: Insight Communications, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

EchoStar Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Aug 4, 2008 – EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) has reported total revenue of $483 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, a 46.2 percent increase compared with $331 million for the corresponding period in 2007.
News categories: Echostar, DVR, Placeshifting, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Iliad (Free) 1H 2008 Revenues
Aug 4, 2008 – Iliad (Paris: ILD) subsidiary Free recruited 230,000 new ADSL subscribers (net of terminations) in 1st half 2008. The ADSL subscriber base thus increased from 2,904,000 at 31 December 2007 to 3,134,000 at 30 June 2008.
News categories: Iliad, Broadband, France, IPTV, Results, Streaming, Subscribers

DISH Network® Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Aug 4, 2008 – DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH) lost approximately 25,000 net subscribers during the quarter ended June 30, 2008, ending the quarter with approximately 13.79 million subscribers.
News categories: DISH Network, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

ONO second quarter 2008 results
Jul 31, 2008 – Spain's ONO has announced consolidated unaudited results for the second quarter ended 30 June 2008. Cable television customers increased by 148,000 or 16.4% in the last twelve months to reach 1,052,000 as of 30 June 2008.
News categories: Grupo Corporativo ONO, Cable TV, Results, Spain, Subscribers

SanomaWSOY (Welho) Interim Report 1 January-30 June 2008
Jul 31, 2008 – In January-June, SanomaWSOY (Helsinki:SWS1V) Group's net sales increased by 3.2%, totalling EUR 1,452.8 (1,408.0) million. In June, Nelonen was the first TV channel in Finland to launch a free HDTV service on Welho's cable network.
News categories: Welho, Cable TV, Digital TV, Finland, Results, Subscribers

Continued strong performance by France Telecom in the first half 2008
Jul 31, 2008 – France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) revenues for the first half 2008 rose to €26.304 billion. ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.54 million subscribers in Europe at 30 June 2008, compared with 872,000 one year earlier.
News categories: France Telecom, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Spain, Subscribers

BT first quarter to June 30, 2008
Jul 31, 2008 – Revenue for BT (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) was 3 per cent higher at £5,177 million in the quarter. The roll out of the BT Vision television service continued during the quarter, with customer numbers reaching 282,000 at June 30, 2008.
News categories: BT Vision, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK