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Jupiter Telecommunications Consolidated Semi-annual Financial Results
Jul 29, 2008 – The cable television subscribers of Jupiter Telecommunications (JASDAQ: 4817) have grown by 107,900 households (5%) since June 30, 2007 to 2,245,500 households as of June 30, 2008.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Japan, Results, Subscribers

Kabel Deutschland Presents Record Results
Jul 29, 2008 – Kabel Deutschland has significantly advanced digitization in its cable households: on March 31, 2008 the number of digital TV subscriptions increased to 1.7 million (previous year 1.2 million) including the 778,500 KDG pay TV RGUs.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Cox's Network Enhancements Enable New Services and Power Second Quarter Growth
Jul 28, 2008 – Cox Communications has announced highlights from its second quarter - a record for the company in terms of high definition customer growth -- nearly fifty percent year-over-year growth.
News categories: Cox Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Microtune Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Jul 28, 2008 – For Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE), net revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2008 was $26.6 million, a 7% increase compared to net revenue of $24.8 million for the second quarter of 2007.
News categories: Microtune, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Verizon Reports Double-Digit Earnings Growth
Jul 28, 2008 – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported continued strong results in the second quarter 2008. Verizon added 176,000 net new FiOS TV customers, for a total of nearly 1.4 million FiOS TV customers as of the end of the quarter.
News categories: Verizon Communications, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Zoran Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Jul 28, 2008 – Zoran (Nasdaq GS: ZRAN) has reported results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008. Revenues of $128.7 million for the second quarter of 2008 were 28 percent DTV, 15 percent DVD, 7 percent mobile phone processors and 50 percent other.
News categories: Zoran, Digital TV, DVD, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Pace plc Interim results for the half year ended 30 June 2008
Jul 28, 2008 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2008. Volume shipments were up 55% to 2.8m set-top boxes compared with 1.8m in the same six months of 2007.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Korea Telecom MegaTV reaches 700,000 subscribers
Jul 25, 2008 – KT Corporation (Seoul:030200)(NYSE:KTC) has published its second quarter 2008 business report. KT reached 705,856 subscribers for its 'MegaTV' IPTV service at the end of the quarter, up from 567,230 at the end of March.
News categories: KT Corp, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

TEO revenues grew by 8.3 per cent and net profit by 16 per cent in the first half of 2008
Jul 25, 2008 – During January-June 2008, the number of TEO LT IPTV users reached 28 thousand and the number of digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) service users amounted to 6.6 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial