Dolby Labs, best known for its ‘noise reduction’ and Surround Sound products, has turned in record numbers for its Q4 and full year. Q4 net income was $79.1 million ($65m same period last year). Gross revenues for Q4 were $243.8 million (up from $227.8m). As a proportion of the above numbers Dolby’s licensing fees were […]
Vivendi has sold off a small part of its 63 percent stake in ‘Call of Duty’ video games outfit Activision Blizzard. Last week Vivendi Universal spent $1.9 billion buying music publisher EMI. Vivendi gained $427 million from the sale of stock which sees its stake in the video games company falling to 60 per cent. […]
Kabel Deutschland has announced it generated revenue of €830.1 million in the first half of its fiscal year ending 31 March 2011, an increase of 5.6 per cent on the year-ago period. Net profit reached €44.9 million, compared to a loss of €8.6 million twelve months previously. Kabel Deutschland said it invested a total of […]
Portugal Telecom’s pay-TV service Meo has surpassed one million customers, three and a half years since launching. At the end of the 3Q 2011, Meo customers represented around 93 per cent of Portugal Telecom’s fixed broadband customers and 38 per cent of fixed lines. Net additions since the beginning of October 2011 surpassed 25,000 customers. […]
Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView in early 2012. The broadband provider said it will launch a “friends and family” trial of the service in the first quarter next year, although the proposed launch date will likely be in January. TalkTalk will give around 3,000 of its YouView STBs, made […]
Despite increased revenues (up 16.1 per cent to $28.6 million) Israel-based satcoms specialists RRsat saw its overall Q3 position move to losses of $200,000 (last year, same Q3 period, net income of $600,000). RRsat says its expects Q4 revenues to be in the range of $27 million-$29 million, which will take its full year revenues […]
ITV achieved £1.51 billion (€1.75bn) revenue in the first nine months of 2011 as its ad revenue edged up 2 per cent against market trend, though it was only 1 per cent ahead of last year in Q3. Meanwhile, in production, ITV Studios revenue was up 9 per cent to £224 million on strong international […]
Telefonica-owned IPTV service Movistar Imagenio gained 20,000 clients in the third quarter of the year bringing the total to 804,000, up four per cent on a year earlier, and breaking the loss trend experienced in the first half of the year. Globally, Telefonica reached 3.2 million pay-TV subs by the end of the third quarter, […]
Disney has reported that its fourth-quarter net income rose 30 per cent, thanks to higher spending by theme park visitors and growth at pay TV operations ESPN and Disney Channel. Advertising revenue was up, but like other media companies, Disney maintained a cautious outlook. The price for TV ads booked at the last minute “has […]
SES reported a healthy set of numbers on November 11 for its nine-months trading to September 30. Perhaps most notable was the all-important contract backlog figure, up nine per cent since the end of 2010. The figure represents the forward orders contracted for transponder space on SES satellites. Its other numbers were also in positive […]