James Murdoch, Deputy COO, speaking at News Corp’s results, said he thought the Liberty – Virgin deal would ‘do little to change the competitive landscape.’ Chare Carey, COO, said News Corp would ‘stay the course’ with BSkyB, but admitted the question of its long term future still exercised News management: “Over time, we need to […]
Time Warner reported fourth quarter operating income up 16 per cent, driven by record profits at Networks and Film and TV Entertainment. For the year OP was up 4 per cent on 2011 to $6.1 billion. Full-year Revenues decreased 1 per cent from 2011 to $28.7 billion, as growth at the Networks segment was more […]
The number of Swisscom TV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 (30 per cent) according to the Swiss telco’s full year figures. Around 200,000 Swisscom TV customers are already testing the replay function, which allows programmes from around 70 channels to be watched up to 30 hours after they have been broadcast. Additionally, around 80 per […]
Sony has cut its quarterly losses. Net losses for the October-December quarter fell to 10.8 billion yen ($115m), from 159 billion yen for the quarter in 2011, with sales up 6 per cent to 1.9 billion yen. The latest quarterly figures brought total losses in the nine months to end-December to 50.9 billion yen, a […]
Virgin has reported that total revenue for 2012 was up 2.7 per cent to £4.1 billion (€5.06bn), and up 1.6 per cent to £1,040 million for the quarter. Operating Cash Flow was up 4.0 per cent to £1.654 billion and net cash provided by operating activities was £1,040 billion for the year. The average number […]
Liberty Global has posted its preliminary unaudited consolidated financial and operating results for the year and three months ended December 31st 2012. Liberty expects to publish final consolidated results for 2012 on February 13th. Highlights for the full year and Q4 compared to the same period for 2011 include: Organic RGU additions increased 34 per […]
ESPN is considering quitting the UK as the sports network racks up losses and after having lost key sports rights contacts, reports the FT. The Walt Disney company is disenchanted with no progress against Sky and then being outbid for BT for secondary football rights. Most recently it also lost mobile rights when it was […]
SES’s HD+ venture is making considerable progress in Germany. SES says that during 2012 it more than doubled its paying subscriber base from 404,123 to 944,993. That number has continued to grow through January and has now passed the 1 million mark. SES says that its total number of active subscribers (paying, or in a […]
India’s DTH market continues to impress observers with its subscriber gains. The latest operator to unveil its numbers is telco giant Bharti, where its Airtel DTH division saw net subscriber numbers rise 439,000 during the most recent quarter-year (to December 31st), which is well ahead of last year’s 55,000. All its other key metrics were […]
YouView is estimated to have up to 230,000 subscribers six months after launch, with TalkTalk revealing that it is seeing demand running at more than 10,000 sign-ups per week. This contrasts with reportedly very slow sales through retailers. The joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk finally began […]