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FOXTEL Accelerates Growth in Subscribers and Profits To Record Highs
Aug 9, 2007 – FOXTEL has announced that it has achieved record high growth across all key metrics in the year ended 30 June 2007. At 30 June 2007, FOXTEL had 1,292,000 direct subscribers (including the sales queue), an increase of 13.1% since 30 June 2006. The net increase of 150,000 subscribers represents a 36% increase on the net additions in the previous year. FOXTEL's total subscriber base, including wholesale customers, grew to 1,443,000 an increase of 12.4% over the 12 month period.
News categories: Australia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Golden Telecom raises its full year 2007 forecast
Aug 9, 2007 – "Corbina Telecom launched IPTV services which bring additional media distribution capabilities to Golden Telecom and with it the opportunity for fast growth in this target market. In June, we began testing Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) equipment in Moscow. We plan to make digital TV available to all of Moscow households."
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Deutsche Telekom Interim Report January 1 to June 30, 2007
Aug 9, 2007 – Deutsche Telekom is continuing to invest in upgrading the network infrastructure for IPTV and bundled products in Germany. It plans to equip 50 cities with VDSL and connect them to the platform by 2008.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Broadband, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Results

Cablevision Systems Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) has reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. iO: Interactive Optimum digital video customers were up 39,000 or 1.6% from March 2007 and 279,000 or 12.3% from June 2006.
News categories: Cablevision, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Virgin Media Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Total TV net additions were 2,200 in the quarter, down from 36,100 in the previous quarter. Growth was affected by churn relating to the loss of Sky basic channels in March, with most of this churn occurring in April. Despite the impact of the Sky basics dispute, digital TV net additions were 40,000, following net additions of 75,200 in the previous quarter.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, UK

Liberty Global Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Liberty Global had 23.1 million total RGUs at June 30, 2007, with 14.7 million video, 4.9 million broadband Internet and 3.5 million telephony subscribers. The 14.7 million video subscribers consisted of 10.9 million analog cable, 2.8 million digital cable and 1.0 million DTH subscribers.
News categories: Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

News Corporation Reports Record Full Year Operating Income of $4.45 Billion; Growth of 15% over Fiscal 2006
Aug 8, 2007 – SKY Italia (News Corp - NYSE: NWS, NWSA) reported full year operating income of $221 million, a growth of $182 million over the $39 million reported a year ago. The improvement primarily reflects the addition of 368,000 net new subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.2 million at year-end.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Multimedia Polska Financial Report For 2Q07
Aug 7, 2007 – Multimedia Polska's digital television service provided over PSTN networks (IPTV) had some 2,800 subscribers at the end of the second quarter. The digital television service provided over cable networks (DTV) was taken up by some 2,000 customers.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

SureWest Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 7, 2007 – SureWest (NASDAQ: SURW) video RGUs increased 19% year-over-year, to 21,118 in the second quarter of 2007 from 17,759 in the second quarter of 2006, and increased 3% quarter-over-quarter from 20,445 in the first quarter of 2007.
News categories: SureWest, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA