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Half a billion views for Virgin Media's on demand TV
Feb 12, 2009 – TV viewing habits on brink of major change Record-breaking year with 516 million on demand views in 2008 BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media approaching 100 million views 2008 was the year on demand television came of age with Virgin Media’s TV viewers watching over half a billion on demand programmes. With a record-breaking 56 million […]
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Streaming, Subscribers, UK

Telenor (Canal Digital) Fourth quarter and preliminary results for 2008
Feb 11, 2009 – Canal Digital (Oslo:TEL) revenues increased primarily due to a higher number of cable TV subscribers and higher sales of additional services both to cable and DTH subscribers. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 12,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

StarHub Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
Feb 10, 2009 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) pay TV revenue jumped 17% to S$398 million from S$342 million. The number of customers on the digital platform increased 24% to 504,000 households with digital customers making up 96% of the total customer base.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Sanoma (Welho)'s Year-End Statement 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – Sanoma (Helsinki:SAA1V) Entertainment's net sales from other operations increased clearly in 2008 due to Welho's strong pay TV and broadband sales. Pay TV business was boosted by investments focused on offering more High Definition (HD) channels.
News categories: Welho, Cable TV, Finland, Results, Subscribers

TEO revenues grew by 4.1 per cent up to LTL 826 million over the year 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has announced results for the twelve months of 2008. The number of IPTV users increased by 2.3 times and reached almost 40.4 thousand. The number of customers using the DVB-T service was 26.3 thousand at the end of the year.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

SingTel Group's results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2008. In the quarter, 13,000 new customers signed up for mio TV, bringing its total customer base to 59,000.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

The DIRECTV Group Q4 Results Cap Record Setting Financial Performance in 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – The DIRECTV Group (NASDAQ:DTV) has reported fourth quarter 2008 results. DIRECTV U.S. ended the quarter with 17.62 million subscribers, up from 16.83 million on December 31, 2007. DIRECTV Latin America had 3.88 million subscribers at year end.
News categories: DIRECTV, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, DVR, Ecuador, Latin America, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela

SK Broadband achieves sales of KRW 1861.4 Billion in 2008
Feb 6, 2009 – SK Broadband (formerly Hanarotelecom) [KOSDAQ: 033630] has announced results for the fourth quarter of 2008. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were up 6,782 in the quarter, though down 31.8 thousand year-on-year, giving 775,407 at year-end.
News categories: SK Broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Elion DigiTV customer base grew 43% last year
Feb 5, 2009 – The number of subscribers to Elion's 'DigiTV' cable and IPTV services in Estonia grew by 43% during 2008 to reach 82,500 at the end of the year.
News categories: Elion, Cable TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers