BT added 21,000 subscribers for its IPTV service BT Vision in the second quarter of 2012 to reach a total of 728,000 customers. Growth was slower than than the previous quarter, but the UK telco expects growth to pick up again once its new football-focused channel arrives in time for the 2013/2014 Premier League season. […]
Netflix Q2 earnings plummeted 91 per cent as the online movie rental company posted higher subscription costs, though subscriber rolls kept improving. The company, which provides streaming movies over the Internet as well as DVDs by mail, added 530,000 US subscribers to its online video service from the previous quarter, bringing the total to 23.9 […]
French media solutions provider Technicolor posted a net loss of €26 million in the first half of 2012, narrower than a net loss of €112 million in the first half of 2011. For six months, revenues from continuing operations amounted to €1.646 billion compared with €1.559 billion 12 months ago, an increase of 0.6 per […]
The number of subscribers to Virgin Media’s Tivo box is due to reach 1 million this week – less than a year after its launch. The number of homes with the box, which connects sets to the Internet as well as traditional TV channels, rose 261,700 to 938,800 during the last quarter, helping boost revenues […]
Digital TV technology specialist Pace has raised its full-year earnings forecast as margins improved and the supply disruptions that marred the company’s profit in the first half receded. Announcing its Interim Results for the six months ended June 30th 2012, Pace said full-year operating margin would be greater than its previous forecast of 7 per […]
Spain’s Prisa, owner of pay DTH platform, Canal Plus, ended the second quarter with 1.831million pay-TV subscribers on its Canal Plus business, along with 100,209 from other operators and OTT. Its multiplatform delivery strategy seems to be bearing fruit as the company added 40,968 new (satellite, OTT and from other operators) clients on the same […]
Sky Germany’s CEO Brian Sullivan has given his clearest hint yet that the News Corp-backed pay-TV platform will move into operational profits in its Q2. Speaking to German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sullivan said: “Results haven’t been finalised yet, but at present it looks like we’ll post earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation […]
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has reported a 6.3 per cent rise in quarterly revenue, boosted by higher subscriptions for bundled TV, Internet and telephony packages. “We are on track to continue to increase our market share and grow our revenue and EBITDA in the second half of 2012,” chief executive Bernard Dijkhuizen commented. Ziggo swung […]
FiOS, the multichannel broadband service from Verizon is doing some blistering business. Increases at both its TV and broadband division helped drive operating revenues up 3.7 per cent and net up up 13 per cent, compared with the same period last year. Verizon’s video subscriber numbers increased a net 120,000 and broadband customers increased a […]
Romanian DTH supplier Focus Sat, owned by Liberty’s UPC MSO, suffered a major revenue collapse of some 24 per cent last year. The report, carried by local business newspaper Ziarul Financiar, stated that the loss is within the financial statement made by Focus Sat to the Finance Ministry. Specifically, the newspaper states that Focus Sat’s […]