Despite delivering a near-perfect set of “strong” numbers (see separate story), UK-based TV technology company Pace failed to convince investors with their results (to December 31st 2010) and general outlook. Pace’s share price tumbled 36.5p (14 per cent) to 183p during March 8th, a five-week low point and the largest fall on the UK’s important […]
UK set top maker Pace PLC has reported its full year’s for 2010 with a 17.4 per cent year-on-year increase in sales to £1.331 billion with organic (extracting acquisitions) revenue up 9.7 per cent. Adjusted EBITA is up 35.6 per cent to £103.6 million (2009: £76.4m) with organic business contributing £94.3 million and acquisitions £9.3 […]
Multimedia Polska, Poland’s third largest cable operator has expanded its cable-TV offer with three channels from Polish satellite operator Polsat. Polsat Sport, Polsat News and Polsat channels are now available to Multimedia Polska analogue TV subscribers. Nine channels from Polsat were introduced for digital TV subscribers earlier this year. Meanwhile, the cableco has reported that […]
The cable industry scored record highs in both national and local advertising revenues in 2010, according to the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau. Cable ad revenues were $27.1 billion, up 12 per cent from 2009. National network revenues were $20.5 billion, up 9.6 per cent and local cable revenues jumped 20 per cent to $6.6 billion. “In […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO increased its subscribers in 2010 but total revenues and profits dropped by 2.7 per cent to €1.472 billion and 7.1 per cent to €47 million, respectively, with an EBITDA decreasing 0.8 per cent to €725 million. The company ended the year with 4.31 million residential subs (triple play), up 2.3 […]
TiVo has revealed that its Q4 net loss more than tripled after the company dumped deep-discount digital video recorder boxes during the holiday season and racked up legal fees in a series of patent disputes. TiVo reduced its entry-level box price from $300 to $100, and the top-tier Premiere XL box from $500 to $300 […]
Simon Woodward, CEO of digital TV software provider ANT, has implied that delays in agreeing product specifications that deliver the benefit of merged linear and Internet TV has affected the company’s revenues. Woodward’s comments came as ANT reported a seven per cent drop in full year revenue to £4.35million (€5.14m) last year from £4.70 million […]
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 […]