News Corp’s Sky Italia has reported an annual fall in operating income of $52 million (€40.61m), putting the second quarter figure to December 31, 2008 at $10m.
Teleste sales fall
Teleste has reported a 13.1% fall in net sales year on year to €108.7 million, but the orders received by its Broadband Cable Networks division held steady at €101.4 million […]
YouSee sees cable growth
Revenues at Danish cabler YouSee increased by DKK349 million (€46.8 million) to DKK3,201 million in 2008 as customers tapped into an expanded range of TV channels.
NDS purchase gains final court approval
NDS Group Limited has confirmed it has received the final approval from the High Court of Justice in England and Wales that will see the company return to private hands.
Bloomberg to axe foreign language news
Bloomberg is to scale back its television news operations, shutting all non-English language channels, including those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan.
Reggefiber takes majority in Amsterdam FttH net
The Reggefiber joint venture with the Dutch incumbent KPN is to raise its 33% stake in the Amsterdam FttH network Glasvezelnet Amsterdam (GNA) to 70%. At the same time, the […]
Mixed results for Motorola Home and Networks
Motorola experienced a 5% fall in its Home and Networks Mobility segment in the final quarter of 2008.
Subscriber boost for KDG
Kabel Deutschland ended 2008 with an increase in RGUs of 8.4%. Germany’s largest cable operator reported a total of 11,386,000 services taken by its customers including 846,300 digital TV subscriptions, […]
Financial crisis closes GTV
Gateway Broadcast Services, the fledgling satcaster that threatened to challenge the dominance of Multichoice in the African market, has closed its operations blaming economic conditions.
Harmonic remains confident as international sales hold
Both international and US domestic markets grew for Harmonic in 2008 as the video delivery company reported an increase in net sales of 17% to $365 million. Domestic sales represented […]