DirecTV up 10%
DirecTV’s first-quarter net income rose 10 per cent
amid higher net subscriber additions and a lower subscriber
cancellation rate. The company reported net income of
$371 million, up from $336 million, a year earlier. Revenue
rose 17 per cent to $4.59 billion.
DirecTV said US net subscriber additions rose 17 per cent
to 275,000, putting the total at 17 million, up 5.2 per
cent. Average revenue per subscriber increased 8.6 per
cent and average subscriber-acquisition costs climbed
6.7 per cent. The monthly churn rate fell to 1.36 per
cent from 1.44 per cent............................................more
Orange
nears 1.5m IPTV subs
Orange is closing on 1.5 million subscribers to its IPTV
service in France. According to Q1 numbers from parent
France Telecom, Orange has 1.41 million subscribers in
Europe as of March 31, 2008, up from 770,000 for the period
a year earlier.
The VOD service was a big winner with paid downloads at
1.064 million in Q1 up from 401,000 a year ago.................................................more
Microsoft to stay alone
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has said the company isn't
pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5
billion takeover bid for Yahoo. He said that the company
put "a lot of effort" in the talks with Yahoo
and has decided the two should pursue "independent
paths."
Microsoft withdrew its three-month-old unsolicited bid
for Yahoo, after seeing the impasse with Yahoo's board
over a mutually acceptable sales price. "Now at this
point Microsoft is focused on its independent strategy,"
Gates told reporters................................................more
ZON
TV Cabo adds 13,000 clients and new channels
From Branislav Pekic in Rome
Portugal’s ZON Multimédia has added 13,400
new clients for its pay-TV service ZON TV Cabo in the
first quarter of this year, representing a 60.3 per
cent increase of net additions on the same period in
2007.
The percentage of subscribers to the digital service
"Funtastic Life" rose from 20 per cent to
26 per cent of the total pay-TV client base. The number
of subscribers for the Premium TV channels grew 5 per
cent (6 per cent for the Sport TV1/Sport TV2 package).
ARPU was E25.60, a 2.5 per cent increase on last year.
The audience of cable TV channels continued to grow,
from 13.2 per cent to 13.8 per cent of total TV consumption
in Portugal..............................................more
C4
mobile TV
Channel 4 is said to be interested in purchasing a
chunk of spectrum on the second national digital radio
multiplex to use in the launch of mobile TV services.
It could bid for some of the 22 per cent of the second
multiplex's bandwidth that is reserved for non-radio
services such as mobile TV.Such a move by Channel 4
could be lucrative for 4Digital Group, which holds the
licence for the second multiplex. BT Movio, which provides
technical services to mobile TV operators, used to lease
capacity from Digital One at a cost of £5 million
(E6.2m) per year.
It also emerged that 4Digital Group has given BSkyB
until the end of June to decide whether it will participate
in the multiplex...............................................more
See
Also:
Cablevision buys Sundance
Spain's
ONO and Antena 3 VOD deal
Spain
face EC punishment over TV advertising rules
RTL
hit by ad decline
TV
and web combo ads more effective
IPTV
underdeveloped in Australia
New
York cracks down on piracy
Alcatel-Lucent
and Quantum co-operate for DVB-SH
Premiere
renews partnership with KDG
Two
Way rebrands
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