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Tata Sky crosses 1 million mark in record time
Aug 8, 2007 – Tata Sky Ltd., the JV between the TATA Group and STAR, has crossed the one million connections mark in its first year of operations. This milestone marks the fastest first million reached by any DTH platform in the world.
News categories: Tata Sky, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers

Cablevision Systems Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) has reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. iO: Interactive Optimum digital video customers were up 39,000 or 1.6% from March 2007 and 279,000 or 12.3% from June 2006.
News categories: Cablevision, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Virgin Media Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Total TV net additions were 2,200 in the quarter, down from 36,100 in the previous quarter. Growth was affected by churn relating to the loss of Sky basic channels in March, with most of this churn occurring in April. Despite the impact of the Sky basics dispute, digital TV net additions were 40,000, following net additions of 75,200 in the previous quarter.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, UK

Liberty Global Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 8, 2007 – Liberty Global had 23.1 million total RGUs at June 30, 2007, with 14.7 million video, 4.9 million broadband Internet and 3.5 million telephony subscribers. The 14.7 million video subscribers consisted of 10.9 million analog cable, 2.8 million digital cable and 1.0 million DTH subscribers.
News categories: Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

News Corporation Reports Record Full Year Operating Income of $4.45 Billion; Growth of 15% over Fiscal 2006
Aug 8, 2007 – SKY Italia (News Corp - NYSE: NWS, NWSA) reported full year operating income of $221 million, a growth of $182 million over the $39 million reported a year ago. The improvement primarily reflects the addition of 368,000 net new subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing SKY Italia's subscriber base to 4.2 million at year-end.
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Multimedia Polska Financial Report For 2Q07
Aug 7, 2007 – Multimedia Polska's digital television service provided over PSTN networks (IPTV) had some 2,800 subscribers at the end of the second quarter. The digital television service provided over cable networks (DTV) was taken up by some 2,000 customers.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

UTStarcom RollingStream IPTV Solution Tops 310,500 Live Commercial Subscribers in China
Aug 7, 2007 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced that the company's award-winning RollingStream(TM) end-to-end IPTV solution currently supports more than 310,500 live subscribers in 19 commercial deployments with both China Telecom and China Netcom with a total system capacity of nearly 625,000 subscribers between the two operators.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

SureWest Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 7, 2007 – SureWest (NASDAQ: SURW) video RGUs increased 19% year-over-year, to 21,118 in the second quarter of 2007 from 17,759 in the second quarter of 2006, and increased 3% quarter-over-quarter from 20,445 in the first quarter of 2007.
News categories: SureWest, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

hanarotelecom's 2Q net income turned positive in 2 years
Aug 7, 2007 – hanarotelecom has announced its results for the 2nd quarter of 2007. The number of hanaTV subscribers exceeded 500,000 and hanaTV revenues recorded KRW 7.7 billion in the 2nd quarter, more than double the revenues of the previous quarter.
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers