SAN FRANCISCO, December 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Italy's leading pay-TV operator renews agreement for OpenTV solutions

OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq: OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the
delivery of advanced television and cross-platform interactive services,
announced today that Sky Italia has entered into a multi-year renewal of its
middleware license agreement with OpenTV. Sky Italia is Italy's premier
provider of satellite television, offering a variety of programming choices
to more than four million subscribers.

"We are extremely pleased with Sky Italia's decision to renew our
relationship on a long term basis and explore OpenTV's full range of next
generation middleware products," said Ben Bennett, OpenTV's Chief Operating
Officer. "Our goal is to continue building on this strong partnership by
ensuring our technology is aligned as closely as possible with Sky Italia's
business needs; a long term partnership means OpenTV providing Sky Italia
with proven and innovative solutions that help grow their business and retain
customers through world-class enhanced, interactive and targeted services."

"OpenTV's commitment and responsiveness to our requirements make them the
middleware of choice for Sky Italia," said Mark Williams, Sky Italia's Chief
Operating Officer. "We are pleased to extend our relationship with the OpenTV
team and look forward to their continued support and delivery of innovative
solutions."

Sky Italia's programming features a wide range of digital television
services, including the innovative and successful "MySky" personal video
recording receiver and a variety of OpenTV-powered interactive services
featuring news, weather, music and sports.

About OpenTV

OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of solutions for the
delivery of digital and interactive television. The company's software has
been integrated in more than 96 million digital set-top boxes and digital
televisions around the world, and enables enhanced program guides,
video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television,
interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a
variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more
information, please visit http://www.opentv.com.

About SKY Italia

SKY Italia, 100% controlled by News Corporation Limited, was born in 2003
and since then has been continuously growing, reaching 4,240,000 subscribers
as of 30 September 2007. The platform currently broadcasts over 170 
television, interactive services and pay-per-view channels, ranging from 
sports to movies, news, entertainment, documentaries, children programming, 
and music. SKY programming can be received on IPTV platform as well as via 
satellite. The platform's complete television offer is available on the 
Fastweb, Telecom Italia's Alice Home TV and Wind's Infostrada TV broadband 
networks; and in the next months, SKY's packages will be available on the 
Tiscali's IPTV network. SKY, moreover, broadcasts some specially-designed 
programs on mobile TV systems, in association with Vodafone, H3G and TIM.

For more information, please visit http://www.sky.it

Cautionary Language Regarding Forward-Looking Information

The foregoing information contains certain "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations
and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results
may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in political,
economic, business, competitive, market and regulatory factors. In
particular, factors that could cause our actual results to differ include
risks related to: market acceptance of interactive television services and
applications such as ours; delays in the development or introduction of new
applications and versions of our service; technical difficulties with
networks or operating systems; our ability to manage our resources
effectively; changes in technologies that affect the television industry; and
the protection of our proprietary information. These and other risks are more
fully described in our periodic reports and registration statements filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at the
Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Readers should consider the
information contained in this release together with other publicly available
information about our company for a more informed overview of our company. We
disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.

Web site: http://www.opentv.com
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