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News Corporation Reports Record Second Quarter Operating Income of $1.4 Billion, a 24% Increase on Revenue Growth of 10%
Feb 4, 2008 – News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) has reported its second quarter results. SKY Italia added more than 400,000 net subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.43 million at quarter end.
News categories: Sky Italia, News Corp., Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

NETC announces today its results for the fourth quarter of 2007
Jan 31, 2008 – Net Serviços de Comunicação (Bovespa: NETC3, NETC4; Nasdaq: NETC; and Latibex: XNET) has announced its results for Q4 and fiscal year 2007. The pay TV subscriber base reached 2,475,000 (604,000 digital) at the end of 2007.
News categories: Net Serviços de Comunicação, Earnings Release, Divulgação de Resultados de 2007, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers

Vivendi Full Year 2007 Revenues Increase Significantly (+9.7%)
Jan 30, 2008 – Canal+'s total subscriptions at the end of the year reached 5.3 million, which represented a net increase of more than 80,000 over the year. The proportion of Canal+ Le Bouquet subscriptions reached 71% of the total Canal+ portfolio, up from 61% a year ago.
News categories: Vivendi, Earnings Release, Digital TV, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA) results for full year 2007
Jan 30, 2008 – Telekomunikacja Polska has announced financial and operating data for the year ended December 31, 2007. TP's broadband customer base grew 25.8% year-on-year, with IPTV subscribers almost doubling in the fourth quarter alone.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, Earnings Release, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Jupiter Telecommunications Financial Results For the Year Ended December 31, 2007
Jan 30, 2008 – As of December 31, 2007, 67% of J:COM's 2,188,000 cable television subscribers were receiving the digital service, compared to 52% as of December 31, 2006.
News categories: Jupiter Telecommunications, Results Summary, Earnings Release (1.05M), Presentation (561k), Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Japan, Results, Subscribers

TEO net profit grew by 24.7 per cent up to LTL 163 million over the year 2007
Jan 29, 2008 – During 2007, TEO LT's number of broadband Internet access users increased by 43 per cent and at the end of the year 2007 amounted to 258.6 thousand, while the number of IPTV users increased by 3.5 times and reached almost 17.5 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, Financial Results, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

The Gores Group Completes Acquisition of Sagem Communications
Jan 29, 2008 – The Gores Group has announced that it closed its acquisition of Sagem Communications from SAFRAN for an enterprise value of 383 million euros (560 million dollars at current exchange rate).
News categories: Sagem Communications, SAFRAN, The Gores Group, CIC Finance, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, MandA, Private Equity, Set Top Box

Deutsche Telekom records strong mobile contract customer growth and leading position on market for new DSL customers
Jan 29, 2008 – Between the beginning of September and the end of the year, the total number of customers connected to T-Home's Entertain IPTV package was 116,000 with 150,000 packages having been sold by the end of 2007.
News categories: T-Home, Deutsche Telekom, Broadband, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Pace Micro Technology plc results for the seven month period ended 31 December 2007
Jan 29, 2008 – Pace Micro Technology has announced its audited financial results for the seven month period ended 31 December 2007. Total set-top box shipments in the period were 2.4 million (North America 0.9m; EMEA 1.3m and APAC 0.2m).
News categories: Pace Micro, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box