Advanced Television

Results

Sirius XM results strengthen

Sirius XM posted strong Q4 results thanks to additional subscribers and severe cost cutting. Quarterly earnings came in at $14.2 million, up from a loss of $245.8 million a year earlier. More than 257,000 net new customers were added leaving Sirius to close the year with 18.8 million subs, slightly less than the 2008 number. […]

March 1, 2010

Telefonica pay subs grow

Telefónica Spain's Imagenio service added 48,725 pay-TV subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2009, taking its customer base to 702,980, up 14.8 per cent year-on-year. It said that the now had a pay-TV market share of 17 per cent, based on coverage that was limited to only 60 per cent of Spanish households. Telefónica said […]

March 1, 2010

Belgacom TV reports strong growth

Convergence and innovation were the keys to success and record sales of Packs, Belgacom TV has stated. In 2009, the Belgacom Group reported a net profit of E904 million. Didier Bellens, CEO of the Belgacom Group said “Not only did we obtain many new customers, but existing customers remained loyal to us, despite the fierce […]

March 1, 2010

Virgin Media up and 100Mb on

Virgin Media has reported that revenues rose by 3.3 per cent to £980 million (E1.11bn) in the fourth quarter, adding 63,600 broadband subscribers – as superfast Internet connections prove popular. Overall the provider added 28,600 net new households in the three months to the end of December, bringing the total signed up to 4.77 million. […]

February 26, 2010

Sky Deutschland narrows loss after relaunch

In the first six months since the launch of its new TV entertainment service in July 2009, Sky Deutschland attracted 369,000 new customers to its service, up 26 per cent compared to the second half of 2008. Net subscriber growth was 105,000 taking the total number of direct subscribers to 2.47 million on 31st December […]

February 26, 2010

Liberty Global posts Q4 profit

Liberty Global reported fourth-quarter revenues up 19 per cent from a year earlier to $3 billion, helped by solid growth in its digital TV and broadband customer bases. Revenues rose 7 per cent and operating profit rose to $469 million from $225 million a year earlier, and the net result improved to a profit of […]

February 26, 2010

Orange TV up 45%

Orange TV subscribers grew by 53 per cent to a 3.22 million total in 2009 and by 45 per cent in France to 2.76 million, where it is available via IPTV and satellite. In France there were 8.5 million VOD purchases in 209, a year-on-year increase of 67 per cent.

February 26, 2010

TidalTV raises $16m funding

TidalTV, a video advertising management solutions provider, has raised more than $16 million in recent second round funding led by Comcast Interactive Capital, as well as New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Valhalla Partners. The new funding provides TidalTV with the ability to invest additional resources in online video advertising and monetisation solutions for advertisers and […]

February 23, 2010

TF1 results disappoint

TF1, France's largest commercial broadcaster, targeted only a 2 per cent increase in sales in 2010 after two years of slumping advertising revenues. The company reported net profit of E115 million for 2009, down 30 per cent on the previous year, on sales of E2.365 billion, down 9 per cent. Advertising revenues for the TF1 […]

February 22, 2010

Clicker raises another $11m

Clicker, a comprehensive search engine for TV content on the web, has closed an $11 million Series B funding round led by JAFCO Ventures, with existing investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures also participating. JAFCO’s Joe Horowitz will join the Clicker board. The new funding brings Clicker’s total funding to $19 million, after an $8 […]

February 22, 2010