ITV has reported £286 million (€337.5m) of pre-tax profits for 2010 as advertising revenue has surged back. The equivalent figure was £25 million last year. Net advertising revenue rose to £1.5 billion, up from £1.29 billion a year earlier. The company’s strong position – net debt will have more than halved to about £300 million, […]
Technicolor achieved Q4 revenues of €1.155 billion, up 21.4 per cent vs. Q4 2009, second half revenues over all were €2.075 billion up 17 per cent. Nonetheless annual turnover was down 1.2 per cent on 2009 though EBITDA was 1.2 per cent up at €505 million, a margin of 14 per cent. A net loss […]
Vivendi Group has reported full year revenue of €28.878 billion, up 6.4 per cent. Pay TV division Canal Plus reported full-year revenues of €4.7 billion, a 3.5 per cent year-on-year increase, €3.956 billion coming from Canal Plus France. At the end of 2010, Canal Plus France had 11.1 million subscriptions and ARPU was up €1.6 […]
In a disappointing set of results reporting a €582 million fourth-quarter loss following a €1.3 billion writedown on impairments in Romania and Greece, Deutsche Telekom revealed it ended 2010 with a total of 1.6 million customers for its IPTV platform Entertain, a growth of 81 per cent compared with 2009. DT said it was aiming […]
International MSO Liberty Global revealed quarterly revenue up 17.8 per cent following on good growth in Germany and Poland, and confirmed its European expansion ambitions. “Over 80 per cent of our business is now squarely focused in Europe… we remain well capitalized to pursue additional consolidation opportunities in our core European markets,” said president and chief executive […]
Belgacomhas reported Q4 earnings before EBITDA and special items rose 6 per cent to €495 million, beating expectations. Belgium’s largest telco added 223,000 subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Belgacom TV’ to reach a total of 975,000 customers by the end of 2010. The company sold a total of 311,000 multi-play packs last year, bringing the […]
Dish Network posted bigger-than-expected subscriber losses for the fourth quarter because of customers cancelling their service after a dispute with Fox Network in October blacked out sports shows. The second-largest US DTH provider lost 156,000 subscribers during the quarter. The company is losing market share to main competitor, DirecTV Group, which reported a higher-than-expected profit […]
France Telecom has reported strong growth in profit for 2010, driven mainly by higher gain on the formation of Orange and T-Mobile joint venture in the UK as well as strong revenue performance in rest of the world segment. For the year, net income attributable to owners of the parent increased to €4.88 billion from […]
As expected, Sky Deutschland has confirmed greater losses for the year (to December 31st 2010), despite managing to grow sales revenues impressively up 8 per cent (to €977.8m) with Q4 revenue well ahead of 2009’s effort at €263.7 million (€230m in 2009). But the headlines will be the widening losses, with EBITDA loss at €268.6 […]
The Kudelski Group, owner of Nagravision and Open TV, announced its 2010 results with total revenues revenues flat but EBITDA up 25 per cent at CHF173 million (€135m). There was strong organic growth in the Digital TV division, posting a sales growth of 6.8 per cent. This was in contrast with weaker growth rates in […]