Satellite Television (DBS, DTH, DSat, DVB-S, DVB-S2) News

ZON announces 1Q08 Consolidated Results
May 7, 2008 – ZON's Pay TV customer base grew in 1Q08 by 13.4 thousand customers, representing 60.3% more net additions than in 1Q07 and digitally enabled subscribers continued to grow as a percentage of the Pay TV customer base to 26% compared with 20% in 1Q07.
News categories: ZON Multimédia, Cable TV, Digital TV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Liberty Global Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
May 7, 2008 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the first quarter. At March 31, 2008 total RGUs of 24.4 million included 14.7 million video and 5.6 million broadband subscribers.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

UK - Freesat launches today
May 6, 2008 – Freesat, the new, free, digital satellite television service has launched. Freesat is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV.
News categories: Freesat, BBC, ITV, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UK

NDS Group plc Reports Third Quarter Results
May 1, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced its operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. NDS had 86.9 million active digital TV smart cards, 83.1 million cumulative middleware clients deployed and 12.1 million cumulative DVR clients deployed.
News categories: NDS Group, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Telenor First quarter 2008: Continued growth and stable margin
Apr 30, 2008 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher revenues from sales of additional services to subscribers, including hardware sales.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

CanalDigitaal And TV Vlaanderen Launch HDTV Bouquet On ASTRA For Dutch And Belgian Markets
Apr 30, 2008 – As of this month, Dutch satellite TV provider, CanalDigitaal, and Belgian sister company, TV Vlaanderen, broadcast their new HDTV package via ASTRA (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) satellites at the 23.5º East orbital position.
News categories: SES ASTRA, CanalDigitaal, TV Vlaanderen, Belgium, Digital TV, Netherlands, Satellite

BSkyB 3rd Quarter Results
Apr 30, 2008 – British Sky Broadcasting (LSE:BSY) third quarter net customer additions increased by 10% to 56,000 to 8.888 million with improved churn more than offsetting lower gross additions.
News categories: BSkyB, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Ireland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, UK

SES ASTRA starts new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East
Apr 29, 2008 – SES ASTRA (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) has announced the start of a new orbital position at 31.5 degrees East to support the development of the Eastern European and Middle East markets.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Digital TV, Europe, Middle-East, Satellite

HDTV platform Hello HD launches in Hungary from Eutelsat's EUROBIRD™ 9 neighbourhood
Apr 29, 2008 – Hello HD, Hungary's first High-Definition television platform, is gearing up for launch on May 1 from the EUROBIRD™ 9 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL).
News categories: Eutelsat, Hello HD, Digital TV, Hungary, Satellite