French pay TV provider Canal Plus had revenues of €3.364 billion for the nine months to the end of September, up 2.9 per cent year-on-year, on the back of a rising ad market and adding 248,000 net subs in the home market. EBITA was €760 million, up from €754 million a year earlier. Parent company […]
ITV has reported an 11 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues for the first nine months of 2010 to £1.45 billion (€1.71bn) and forecast that the TV advertising recovery will continue until the end of the year. The commercial broadcaster said it expected TV ad revenues to be up 10 per cent year on year […]
Kabel Deutschland (KDG) added 127,300 digital premium pay TV subscribers in the year to September 30 for a total of 1,135,300. ARPU reached €13.08 for its fiscal second quarter, up from €11.88 a year earlier. In the quarter KDG added 64,000 internet and phone customers, taking the company’s total to 1.21 million. The company’s overall […]
ITV’s revenues and profits are resurgent, proving again that it has the world’s simplest business model and that you are just unlucky if you end up running it (or any other FTA commercial channel) in an advertising down turn. But the new management team says it doesn’t want to ride its luck and has set […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO ended the third quarter of the year with 948,000 TV subs, down 1.9 per cent against the previous quarter and 3 per cent lower than last year with a loss of 29,000 in a year. The fall in its TV subscribers (TV customers represent 52.4 per cent of its total […]
An advertising rebound at its ABC television network, as well as the strong box-office performance of Toy Story 3, has lifted Walt Disney’s full-year earnings. However, the media group missed expectations for the fourth quarter due to a timing shift in the recognition of revenues at its ESPN sports channel. Net income for the 12 […]
BT profits have beaten expectations thanks to strong growth in both broadband and its BT Vision television service. Pre-tax profits at the telecoms giant rose 13 per cent to £496 million in the three months to the end of September, compared with the same period last year. BT said its full-year earnings were likely to […]
Sky Deutschland has added 45,000 new subscribers in Q3 to reach 2.52 million. However losses continue; turnover was E243.2 million with a loss of E89.3 million, down, at least from E116.7 million last time. Brian Sullivan, CEO said: “In the past quarter we continued our focus on content and innovation, launching Germany’s and Austria’s first […]
Viacom’s third-quarter earnings disappointed as the company announced plans to sell the division that produced the disappointing video game Rock Band. Net earnings were $189 million down from $463 million a year ago. The result includes a $299 million loss from discontinued operations including the Harmonix video game unit. Net earnings from continuing operations rose […]
Hulu should more than double revenue this year to $240 million, its chief executive Jason Kilar has said, as rumours of an IPO grow. Kilar said Hulu delivered videos to 30 million viewers in the past month and has more than 235 content partners. Launched three years ago, Hulu is now the second-largest Web video […]