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Microtune Announces Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results
Jul 26, 2007 – Microtune®, Inc. (NASDAQ:TUNE) has announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2007.
News categories: Microtune, Earnings Release, ATSC 3, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Cox Sees Lowest Customer Churn In Its History
Jul 26, 2007 – At the close of the quarter, Cox increased total residential customer relationships by 2% versus the same quarter in 2006. At the end of the quarter Cox had 2.96 million digital cable subscribers, an 11.9% growth over last year.
News categories: Cox Communications, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers

Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Jul 26, 2007 – Comcast ended the quarter with more than 14 million video subscribers taking digital services, and installed a record 2.1 million digital set-top boxes in the second quarter of 2007 - roughly equal to that deployed in the previous six months combined.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA

Thomson: First half 2007 Results
Jul 26, 2007 – Thomson shipped a total of 11.0 million access products in 1H07 of which 4.7 million were satellite set-top boxes, 1.2 million were cable set-top boxes, and 5.3 million were access products for telecom operators.
News categories: Thomson, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Kabel Deutschland: Investments in Internet and telephony show success
Jul 26, 2007 – Kabel Deutschland has achieved strong growth in marketing the digital pay TV packages Kabel Digital Home and Kabel Digital International. The number of RGUs in this sector rose to 692,000 by March 31, 2007 compared to 479,000 on March 31, 2006.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Vivendi Reports First Half 2007 Revenues Up 6.4%
Jul 25, 2007 – At the end of the period, Canal+ Group's total subscription portfolio reached 10.3 million, a net increase of more than 400,000 subscriptions compared to the combined subscriptions of Canal+ Group and TPS at the end of June 2006.
News categories: Full Press Release, Vivendi, Digital TV, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

AT&T Posts Strong Second-Quarter Results
Jul 24, 2007 – AT&T (NYSE:T) posted strong video growth in the second quarter. U-verse services are now available in parts of 23 metro areas. At the end of the second quarter, AT&T had 51,000 U-verse video subscribers, up from 13,000 three months earlier.
News categories: AT&T, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Pace Micro Technology plc results for the full year ended 2 June 2007
Jul 24, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE: PIC) has announced its audited financial results for the full year ended 2 June 2007. Volume shipments increased by 77% to 3.9m set-top boxes (2006: 2.2m)
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Africa, Asia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Middle-East, North America, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK

Telenor Second Quarter 2007: Continued good performance
Jul 24, 2007 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher number of subscribers and higher number of additional services. Revenues and EBITDA in Transmission & Encryption increased due to higher sales of pay TV conditional access cards.
News categories: Telenor, 2Q07 Report, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial