Ian Livingston, the outgoing Chief Executive of BT, has revealed that the telco’s forthcoming BT Sport service has already attracted over 500,000 customers prior to its August 1st launch. Commenting on BT’s Q1 results, Livingston said: “It is early days but we are very pleased with the strong start in BT Sport. More than half […]
John Malone-controlled pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM reported 715,000 net new subs in Q2, with revenues for the quarter at $940 million (up 12 per cent on 2012) and saw the operator crash through the 25 million subscriber number (up 9 per cent) and the best quarterly gain since Q4/2007. Just about every metric was beaten, including […]
Conax, a global provider of solutions for securing multi-device and digital video content distribution and part of the Telenor Group, has published its Q2 results. Conax saw revenue growth of 14 per cent from the same quarter last year, driven by increased smartcard sales. Overall margin decreased due to lower prices in emerging markets, resulting […]
UK free-to-air digital satellite television provider Freesat has reported its 21st quarter of consecutive growth, adding 145,000 homes to the service in the last twelve months. The continued growth of the subscription-free service – jointly owned by BBC and ITV – is expected to outpace pay-TV rivals, Sky and Virgin Media, in the same period. […]
In a busy reporting period for the UK’s digital TV platforms, quad-play comms provider TalkTalk has signed up 160,000 new TV subscribers to its YouView service in the three months to end June taking the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to 390,000 in that period. It described June as its strongest […]
Online entertainment streaming service Netflix has reported second-quarter earnings more than quadrupled with programming such as the revival of comedy series Arrested Development attracting more subscribers. Company executives also suggested that domestic profits would fund international growth. Netflix added 630,000 U.S. subscribers during the three months ending in June. That performance was slightly above the […]
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) latest numbers (Q2, to June 30th) show that while its 1 degree West orbital slot is now delivering programming to a record 8.8 million homes, and with “strong and stable” DTH penetration for one of its Central European ‘anchor’ client, UPC, EBITDA revenues fell. TSBc say that the EBITDA decrease is […]
On July 26th BSkyB will unveil its latest numbers, but the market is not expecting much. Investment banker Morgan Stanley anticipates that subscriber growth will again be “subdued”, and echoes what is now a consensus in saying that sports rights inflation will impact BSkyB’s cost of programming, and thus its bottom line. Nevertheless, most observers […]
One of the risks with any satellite operator is that its satellite launch timetable somehow or other goes pear-shaped. And Luxembourg-based SES is suffering a high degree of launch uncertainty just at the moment, and delays are not helping in its own revenue expectations. Banker Morgan Stanley, for example, in a note to clients on […]
While headlines surrounding the BBC’s overall Annual Report are dominated by matters of management and governance, its commercial arm BBC Worldwide has reported what it describes as a “solid performance” in a challenging economic climate. In the 12 months to 31 March 2013, the company reported a 1 per cent rise in headline profit to […]