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Actions Semi. Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006
Feb 10, 2007 – Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS) has reported record financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.
News categories: Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor, Tablet

Charter Reports Preliminary Financial and Operating Results for Fourth-Quarter 2006
Feb 9, 2007 – Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHTR) has announced preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2006. Fourth quarter 2006 net gains of digital video customers were approximately 40,500.
News categories: Charter Communications, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers

Microtune Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Year 2006 Financial Information
Feb 8, 2007 – Microtune®, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE) has reported preliminary unaudited financial information for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.
News categories: Microtune, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor

Broadcom Reports Fourth Quarter and Year 2006 Results
Feb 8, 2007 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) has reported unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006.
News categories: Broadcom, Digital TV, Results, Semiconductor

Premiere meets targets for 2006 and raises forecasts
Feb 8, 2007 – At year end, Premiere had 3,409,990 subscribers - 1.1 percent more than on September 30, 2006 (3,373,932). Year-on-year (as of 12/31) Premiere booked a decrease of 156,464 subscribers (2005: 3,566,454) - or roughly 4.4 percent.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

News Corp. Results for the Quarter ended December 31, 2006
Feb 7, 2007 – SKY Italia, part of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV), added more than 432,000 net subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing its subscriber base to 4.03 million at quarter end.
News categories: Sky Italia, News Corp, Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

DIRECTV Announces Fourth Quarter and FY2006 Results
Feb 7, 2007 – The total number of DIRECTV (NYSE:DTV) U.S. subscribers as of December 31, 2006 was 15.95 million, an increase of 5% over the 15.13 million subscribers reported on December 31, 2005.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

European Cable Industry reports strong 2006 results, Exceptional growth for Digital Cable TV
Feb 6, 2007 – According to Cable Europe, the European Cable Communications Association, 2006 was a landmark year for cable in Europe, with double digit growth across all triple play product lines and exceptional growth for digital cable TV (+53%).
News categories: Cable Europe, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Results, Subscribers

Belgium - Quarter of a million Telenet Digital TV RGU's
Feb 5, 2007 – Telenet has announced that it has passed the milestone of 250,000 digital TV customers. This success is partly due to the successful Christmas campaign that the Mechelen-based company ran.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers