Cable operator Ziggo has said it will increase its marketing drive and grow sales in 2013 after 2012 revenues increased by four per cent. It said it expected core profit to rise by 2.5 to 3.5 per cent in 2013, with revenues growing slightly ahead of this rate. Adjusted core profit for 2012 increased 5.5 […]
Dish TV, which remains the largest pay-TV operator in a very crowded Indian DTH market, added some 829,000 net new subscribers during its Q3 trading. Churn remains stubbornly high, but this increased growth (the previous quarter’s was 477,000) suggests that Dish TV is on track to add a total 2.5 million gross additions this financial […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has announced that its pay-TV unit Mediaset Premium ended 2012 with around 2 million subscribers – and there are as many pre-paid cards. According to the head of content at Mediaset Premium, Marco Leonardi, the DTT-based platform added 62,000 new subscribers in the last quarter of 2012. Full year revenues amounted […]
In a preliminary financial statement ahead of its full results announcement on March 14th, Swiss-based TV technology company ADB says that its revenues last year grew by more than 10 per cent over 2011. ADB Group was founded in 1995 and specialises in supply set-top boxes to cable, satellite, DTT and IP-based platforms. Back in […]
Verizon has added 144,000 FiOS Internet and 134,000 FiOS Video net additions, with continued increased sales penetration for both services; 5.4 million total FiOS Internet, 4.7 million total FiOS Video customers. It had 8.5 per cent year-over-year increase in service revenues in Q4 2012; 8.4 per cent year-over-year increase in retail service revenues. 2.2 million […]
Sky Deutschland, the German pay-TV group, is coming closer to breaking even after posting full-year 2012 results showing its losses declined sharply – largely because of strong subscriber growth. Sky Deutschland said the company expects a full-year operating loss of €48 million – €58 million. That compares to a €155 million operating loss in 2011. […]
The Oprah Winfrey interview with cyclist Lance Armstrong generated 3.1 million US viewers to the full telecast, a record for OWN, the Winfrey-fronted channel (and totalled 4.3m with a later repeat), plus millions more around the world. OWN charged $100,000 per 30-second advert during the commercial breaks, a huge premium on the channel’s normal rate-card […]
The past 10 days have been busy for Munich-based Sky Deutschland. They have restructured their debt, issued extra shares to backer News Corp, declared record subscriber numbers and organised fresh working capital. All in all, says Sarah Simon, an analyst at Berenberg Bank, “Sky Deutschland continues to be the best structural growth story within our […]
France’s Netgem has announced consolidated revenue of €22.9 million for Q4 2012 taking the full year 2012 consolidated revenue to €81.2 million, of which nearly two thirds come from international sales. Following its international development in 15 countries over three years, the Group has identified supporting the deployment and penetration of its customer’s offers in […]
Pace now expects to exceed previous guidance it says in a trading update that highlights 7.3 per cent underlying operating margin on $2.4 billion of revenue and net debt reduced by 47 per cent in the year. The unaudited figures show the group performed strongly in H2 with record Q4 revenue largely driven by demand […]