The rise in subscriber numbers over the past financial year takes BSkyB to 8.18m subscribers.
Reporting its results for the year ended June 30, Sky showed that its annual revenues increased from £3.84bn to £4.15bn.
The satellite TV company's expansion into broadband with Easynet, which it bought in March for £211m, helped to increase its operating costs by 8.3% from £3.02bn to £3.27bn. Its marketing costs increased by £95m to £622m.
Post-tax profits were down by 5% from £578m to £551m, although Sky provided an adjusted profit figure showing an increase of 4% from £540m to £561m.
James Murdoch, BSkyB chief executive, said: "The business and the team have performed well, delivering good levels of customer growth, in line with our plans, and strong growth in both revenues and profitability."
Sky's ad sales team outperformed the TV market to grow revenues by 4% to £342m and take its market share up from 12% to 13%.
Programming costs fell by £36m to under £1.6bn, as a result of savings on movies, though costs increased for sports and an extra £20m was invested in Sky News and Sky One.
Customer churn for April-June 2006 was 10.6%, taking churn for the year to 11.1%.
The number of Sky+ subscribers increased over the year by 75% to 1.55m, equivalent to 19% of the subscriber base.
The company's high-definition TV service was rolled out on May 22 and Sky has a total number of 90,000 bookings, which it expects to install by September. The number already installed is 38,000.
During the year, Sky kept hold of most of its crucial Premier League football programming by securing four out of the six packages of games on offer for the three seasons from 2007/2008.
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