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Charter Reports Third-Quarter Financial and Operating Results
Nov 8, 2007 – Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) RGUs were comprised of 5,347,800 analog video, 2,882,900 digital video, 2,639,200 HSI, and 802,600 telephone customers. Digital video customers increased by approximately 15,800 in the third quarter of 2007.
News categories: Charter Communications, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Cablevision Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 8, 2007 – Cablevision Systems (NYSE:CVC) has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Digital video customers were up 35,000 or 1.4% from June 2007 and 221,000 or 9.3% from September 2006.
News categories: Cablevision Systems, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Liberty Global Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 8, 2007 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Digital cable additions continued to accelerate in the third quarter, with the addition of 234,000 organic RGUs, a 19% improvement over the comparable period in 2006.
News categories: Liberty Global, Earnings Release, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Golden Telecom reports a 53% year-on-year increase in revenues and 207% increase in net income
Nov 8, 2007 – Golden Telecom launched IPTV service in trial mode using the infrastructure of Corbina. The IPTV technology is based on a Microsoft platform and allows greater flexibility and interactivity enabling Video-on-Demand ("VoD"), Pay-per-View and other value added services.
News categories: Golden Telecom, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Russia, Smart Home, Subscribers

Consolidated Communications Holdings Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 8, 2007 – IPTV growth was strong, adding almost 1,500 subscribers and bringing the total subscriber base to over 11,000. Our digital video recorder (DVR) product is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter, which will complete our current product suite.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, Earnings Release, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

BT second quarter and half year results to September 30, 2007
Nov 8, 2007 – At the end of October BT Vision had more than 60,000 customers. Further growth will be aided by the recent launch of a self install option, offering customers the choice to install BT Vision without the need for an engineer visit.
News categories: BT, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Deutsche Telekom stabilizes its business in Germany and grows in mobile communications
Nov 8, 2007 – Entertain - T-Home's TV entertainment product - proved its suitability for the mass market with its relaunch at IFA and had been ordered by some 50,000 customers by the end of the third quarter.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Deutsche Telekom concludes an agreement with Télédiffusion de France on the acquisition of T-Systems Media&Broadcast GmbH
Nov 8, 2007 – Deutsche Telekom AG has concluded an agreement with the French TDF group on the sale of T-Systems Media&Broadcast GmbH.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Télédiffusion de France (TDF), Content Distribution, Digital TV, MandA, TV Services

News Corporation Reports First Quarter Operating Income of $1.05 Billion
Nov 7, 2007 – News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) reported 410,000 net new SKY Italia subscribers added over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.24 million at quarter-end.
News categories: News Corporation, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers