Kabel Deutschland has published its consolidated financial results for the quarter ending on December 31st 2013 revealing further recovery of its premium TV business with 86 thousand RGU net adds, resulting in a total of 2.2 million pay-TV and DVR RGUs. Germany’s largest cable network operator also reported that continued Internet & Phone momentum with 88,000 […]
Time Warner reported strong fourth-quarter revenue growth with gains in its cable and movie businesses. Box office successes such as Gravity combined with television hits such as The Big Bang Theory and The Voice, for revenue up 5 per cent to a record $8.6 billion for the quarter. For the year 2013, revenue was about […]
UK quad-play operator TalkTalk added 175,000 TV customers in its 2013/14 Q3, according to its Q3 Interim Management Statement. The additional numbers take the viewing base to 732,000. TalkTalk also reported that 197,000 TVoD pay- per-view movies had been taken by TV customers, compared with 123,000 for Q2. Total revenue rose 5.1 per cent to […]
Sky Deutschland will reveal its full-year numbers (to December 31st) on February 6th. The market is looking for some good news as a balance to a major slide in the broadcaster’s share price over the past 5 weeks. (On December 23rd its price was €8.13. At the close on January 31st shares were priced at […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has published strong Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million. Freesat now reaches over 3.8 million UK viewers. Freesat’s continuing growth demonstrates the clear attraction of premium TV on a subscription-free basis. With a Freesat box, viewers have access to over […]
BT’s sales and profits have risen, driven by record broadband demand and its new sports channels. The telco reported pre-tax profits of £617 million for the last three months of 2013, on revenues of £4.6 billion. BT has moved aggressively into the TV sport business, taking on rival Sky, and now has 2.5 million customers […]
BSkyB’s latest results, for the quarter and half-year to December 31st, showed improvements in all sectors and in some case were well ahead of expectations. For example, the number of TV ‘paid for’ subscribers grew 77,000 in the three months to December 31st. HDTV subs grew 112,000 in the three months, while the broadcaster’s ‘Sky […]
US cable giant Comcast has revealed that profits soared 26 per cent in Q4 2013, and that it had finally put the brakes on a trend of customer losses. For the three months ended December 31st, Comcast added 43,000 net video subscribers – marking the first time in nearly seven years that the company did […]
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28th 2013. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion. These results compare to revenue of $54.5 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.9 per cent […]
Dolby Laboratories EV/CFO Lewis Chew has told analysts that his company was sitting on $958 million in cash and cash equivalents despite spending $11.7 million during the quarter-year to September 30th in buying in its own stock back in for cancellation. These days Dolby Labs is mostly a licensing operation for its audio, cinema and […]