blinkx has turned its first profit in the six months to September, more than three years after the flotation of the online video company. Revenues doubled to $27.4 million with a pre-tax profit of $2 million compared with losses of $7.3 million in the same period last year. Because blinkx’s operating costs are growing at […]
Mediaset Premium, Mediaset’s pay TV arm, grew sales by 61.4 per cent year-on-year to €342.5 million for the nine months to September. It had 3.3 million subscribers compared to 2.9 million a year ago. Mediaset group had revenues of €3.046 billion, up 14.6 per cent for the first nine months, and a net profit of […]
AonTV, Telekom Austria’s IPTV service added 55.3 per cent more subs to reach 134,000 at September. Telekom Austria said its multi-play product packages had stemmed the loss of fixed lines during the third quarter to only 1,200. Telekom Austria’s fixed-line broadband base grew by 13.9 per cent year-on-year to 1.1 million lines. Telekom Austria posted […]
Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group has posted a lift in third-quarter operating profit driven by strong performance in Germany, France and the Netherlands and said the fourth quarter has started well. The Luxembourg-based company reported that EBITA was E133 million, up 47.8 per cent. Group revenue rose 8.8 per cent to E1.16 billion. RTL […]
Reporting as a unit of media conglomerate Prisa for the first time, pay-TV operator Digital + played up the success of its PVR proposition, the increase in ARPU and a slowing loss of subscribers. In September, Digital + had 1,772,677 subs, down 73,100 in the nine month period reported compared with a loss of 135,600 […]
UK digital satellite platform Sky has reached its target of 10 million TV customers, equivalent to 36 per cent of households in the UK and Ireland. BSkyB set the target in August 2004, since when a further 2.6 million customers have subscribed. Sky TV now reaches more than 25 million people. Around a third of […]
US satellite broadcaster Dish Network reported total revenue of $3.21 billion for the quarter ended September 30th, 2010, a 10.9 per cent increase compared with $2.89 billion for the corresponding period in 2009. Net income attributable to common shareholders totalled $245 million for the quarter compared with $81 million during the corresponding period in 2009. […]
Liberty Global has swung to a third-quarter profit — its third quarterly profit in the past year after a string of losses. The company benefited from changes in currency values and growth in Western Europe. Subsidiary UPC strengthened its operations in western Europe, has seen revenue grow as more customers subscribe to bundles of two […]
News Corp has reported revenue in its fiscal first quarter was $7.43 billion, up from $7.2 billion in the previous year. Net income was $775 million up from $571 million last year. Rupert Murdoch chairman said, “Our global cable network programming business continues to lead News Corporation’s financial and operational momentum.” Meanwhile, MySpace, the social […]
By any measure Paris-based Eutelsat’s latest numbers (for its Q1 to Sept 30) are impressive. Overall revenues are up 12.9 per cent to €285.6 million, while all its divisional metrics are also in extremely positive territory. Video is up 8.1 per cent, Data and value-added revenues are up 23.5 per cent and Eutelsat’s “multi-usage” division […]