ITV has reported a 14 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £327 million in 2011 as chief executive Adam Crozier hailed a turnaround in its TV production business. The UK commercial broadcaster, which reported adjusted pre-tax profits up 24 per cent to £398 million said that total revenues increased 4 per cent to £2.1 […]
TiVo is planning to extend its digital TV technology expertise beyond the DVR. Commenting on the company’s Q4 results, Tom Rogers, TiVo President and CEO, said the advanced television services specialist was continuing to make strides to bring the look and feel of the TiVo user interface to other platforms beyond the DVR. “To that […]
The news earlier this week that TiVo and Pace had signed a strategic partnership was amplified February 23 by comments made by TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers while discussing the company’s Q4 results. Addressing the new Pace relationship, Rogers, said: “A significant part of the development in any one of these projects is the […]
Liberty Global has announced financial and operating results for the year and the three months ended December 31st, 2011. Highlights include organic RGU additions increased 42 per cent to 1.2 million, revenue up 5 per cent to $9.5 billion and operating income increased 30 per cent to $1.8 billion. Meanwhile, Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported […]
Deutsche Telekom has reported a €1.3 billion loss for 2011 due to a drop in demand in Europe. It would have been worse had it not picked up €3.2 billion in compensation for the collapse of the AT&T deal. Deutsche Telekom did however further increase the number of subscribers to its IPTV service Entertain in […]
The largest private TV channels in Spain, Mediaset-controlled Tele 5 and Antena 3 TV, reduced their profits in 2011 by 10.6 per cent and 14.4 per cent respectively following the sharp fall in ad revenues with a drop of 11.4 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively. Mediaset Spain, ower of Tele 5 and Cuatro, […]
Switzerland’s Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision, has revealed its 2011 annual results. Group revenues in constant currency declined by 3.8 per cent from CHF 1.069 billion (€887m) in 2010 to CHF 896.6 million in 2011, with the Digital TV segment driving most of the decline The continued fall of USD and Euro rates affected the […]
DISH Network has reported total revenue of $3.63 billion for the quarter ended December 31st, 2011, a 13 per cent increase compared with $3.21 billion for the corresponding period in 2010. “DISH delivered a quarter and a year of strong growth in net income and total revenue compared to the same period last year,” said […]
Canadian satellite operator Telesat (which operates the Nimiq, Anik and Telstar fleet of craft) saw its Q4 revenues fall back a little (about 1 percent to C$204.73 million from C$207.24 million in the same period one year previous. Adjusted EBITDA of C$157 million for 4Q/ 2011 was unchanged. Net profits grew to C$241.81 million from […]
Belgian cable operator has Telenet reported full year revenues up six per cent year-on-year to €1.37 billion. EBITDA rose 8 per cent to €723.4 million while the margin advanced to 52.6 per cent. Meanwhile, the net profit fell 81 per cent to €16.8 million on the back of increasing losses on derivatives, higher depreciation costs, […]