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Cablevision Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 Results
Mar 3, 2007 – Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) has reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2006. Digital video customers were up 82,000 or 3.5% from September 2006 and 484,000 or 24.7% from December 2005. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Charter Fourth-Quarter and Annual 2006 Financial and Operating Results
Feb 28, 2007 – Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) has reported its fourth-quarter and annual 2006 financial and operating results. Digital video customers increased by approximately 40,500 in the 4th quarter.
News categories: Charter Communications, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Telefónica O2 Czech Republic - 2006 Full Year Financial Results
Feb 22, 2007 – Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has announced its audited financial results for the fiscal year 2006. By the end of 2006, O2 TV had 15,600 customers, and it was recently announced that this figure had increased to 20,000.
News categories: O2 Czech Republic, Broadband, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Mobile, Results, Subscribers

The Kudelski Group achieves strongest-ever financial results in 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX KUD.VX) has announced strongest-ever 2006 results. For the first time, Digital TV broke the CHF 500 million revenue mark, with a particularly robust development in Europe, growing by 17% compared to the previous year.
News categories: Kudelski, Belgium, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Middleware, Mobile, Poland, Results, Romania, Satellite, Semiconductor, Slovakia, Spain, Streaming, USA

MTG Financial Results for the 4th Quarter and year ended 31 December 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – Viasat - Net intake of 41,000 premium subscribers in Q4 - 123,000 subs added in last 12 months = 20% growth in premium subscriber base.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Amstrad Results For Six Months Ended 31 December 2006
Feb 15, 2007 – The Group reported a profit before tax of £10.5m (2005: £12.5m) on sales of £40.6m (2005: £49.6m). Set top box volumes, which are normally weighted towards the first half of the financial year, are lower than a year ago.
News categories: Amstrad, Digital TV, DVR, Results, Set Top Box, UK

Thomson Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006 Results
Feb 15, 2007 – In a strong Q4, Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) shipped 2.9 million satellite set-top boxes (4Q05, 2.8 million) and 0.9 million cable STBs (4Q05, 0.3 million). Thomson shipped 11.1 million satellite STBs in 2006 (2005, 10.9 million) and 2.0 million cable STBs (2005, 0.6 million).
News categories: Thomson, Brazil, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, France, Gateway, Germany, India, Netherlands, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Singapore, UK, USA

Telenor Fourth quarter and preliminary results for the year 2006
Feb 15, 2007 – The number of direct-to-home (DTH) pay TV subscribers increased by 14,000 in the fourth quarter of 2006, reaching 943,000, while the number of cable TV subscribers increased by 5,000 to 696,000.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Sogecable Consolidated results as of December 31st 2006
Feb 13, 2007 – As of December 31st 2006, Sogecable reaches 2,044,000 DIGITAL+ subscribers, adding more then 38,000 net in the quarter. In 2006, subscriber growth has been resumed and 84,000 new net subscribers have joined the service within the year.
News categories: Sogecable, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers