USA (United States of America) Digital TV News

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

Mediacom Communications Reports Results for Second Quarter 2007
Aug 7, 2007 – MEDIACOM COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (Nasdaq: MCCC) has reported financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2007. Digital customers grew by 2,000 during the second quarter of 2007, compared to a loss of 1,000 in the same period last year.
News categories: Mediacom, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

FCC Announces Final Assignment of Digital Television Channels
Aug 6, 2007 – The FCC has released a new DTV Table which provides television stations across the country with their final channel assignments for broadcasting following the DTV transition on February 17, 2009.
News categories: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Digital TV, Terrestrial, USA

Charter Reports Second-Quarter Financial and Operating Results
Aug 2, 2007 – Charter Communications' RGUs were comprised of 5,376,800 analog video, 2,866,000 digital video, 2,583,200 HSI, and 700,300 telephone customers. Digital video customers increased by approximately 7,600, compared to 23,800 net additions in the year-ago quarter.
News categories: Charter Communications, Earnings Release, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Time Warner Cable Reports Q2 2007 results
Aug 1, 2007 – At the end of the second quarter, digital video subscribers totaled 7.7 million, representing a 58% penetration of basic video customers. Digital video net additions were 184,000 during the second quarter.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

HickoryTech Launches Digital TV in Minnesota
Jul 30, 2007 – HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO) has announced that it has launched its Digital TV service in North Mankato and Janesville. The state-of-the-art broadband network is one of the first of its kind to support Digital TV in Minnesota.
News categories: HickoryTech, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, USA

Verizon Posts Strong 2Q 2007 Results
Jul 30, 2007 – FiOS TV continued to accelerate as Verizon Telecom (NYSE: VZ) added a net 167,000 new subscribers in the second quarter of 2007 giving a total of 515,000 customers - an addition of 460,000 FiOS TV subscribers since the end of the second quarter of 2006.
News categories: Verizon Communications, Earnings Release, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Blu-ray Leads Adoption of Next-generation DVD players in the U.S
Jul 26, 2007 – Next-generation DVD players are poised to experience significant growth over the next five years, according to a new report. The report estimates that more than 32 million Blu-ray and HD DVD players will be sold in the United States by 2011.
News categories: Blu-ray, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, HD-DVD, Market Research, Set Top Box, USA

Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Jul 26, 2007 – Comcast ended the quarter with more than 14 million video subscribers taking digital services, and installed a record 2.1 million digital set-top boxes in the second quarter of 2007 - roughly equal to that deployed in the previous six months combined.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Digital TV, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, USA