Italy-based broadcasting group MFE-MediaForEurope reported consolidated revenues for 2025 of €4.03 billion, a 37 per cent increase. Group net advertising revenues reached €3.24 billion, while other revenues increased to €793 million. Consolidated net profit more than doubled to €301 million (+118 per cent), making it one of the strongest performances in recent years. Free cash […]

Italy-based broadcasting group, MFE-MediaForEurope, has reported a 24 per cent annual growth in net profit for the first half of 2025, to €130.2 million. Even when excluding the impact of the investment in Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1, adjusted net profit remained positive at €80.7 million. Consolidated net revenues in the same period dipped 2.7 per cent to […]

MFE-MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy’s Berlusconi family, has announced the final results of the voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. Following the end of the additional acceptance period of the MFE offer on September 1st, MFE has secured a total stake of 75.61 per cent of ProSiebenSat.1 shares through its […]

MFE-MEDIAFOREUROPE has increased the offer consideration for its voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. According to the MFE announcement, the offer consideration will be increased from €4.48 in cash and a share component of 0.4 MFE-A shares per ProSiebenSat.1 share by 0.9 MFE-A shares to a share component of 1.3 […]

Italy-based media group MFE-MediaForEurope achieved a net profit of €251 million in 2024, up 15 per cent year-on-year and 60 per cent higher than forecast at the beginning of 2024. According to the preliminary financial results for 2024, EBIT reached €370 million, free cash flow amounted to €343 million (+23 per cent), while revenues increased […]

MFE-MediaForEurope (MFE) has reported consolidated net revenues of €1.47 billion for the first half of 2024, an annual increase of 7.8 per cent. Net profit soared to €104.7 million, a 20.2 per cent increase from the previous year, while EBIT rose to €136.3 million (+12.7 per cent), of which Italy accounted for €59.9 million (+53.5 […]

Italy-based broadcasting group MFE-MediaForEurope is expected to close 2023 with profit exceeding €217 million, the figure recorded in the previous year. This figure does not include the effects of adding ProsiebenSat.1 to their finances. Advertising revenues in Spain and Italy are expected to grow by 5 per cent compared to the same period in 2023. The […]

ProSiebenSat.1 is upping ties with MediaForEurope as it faces an advertising downturn and competition from SVoDs. Bert Habets, CEO of the German TV network, told the FT that “meaningful co-operation” on advertising, technology and even content was underway with MFE, which is ProSieben’s largest shareholder.  A pan-European broadcast group is the longstanding ambition of Pier […]

Silvio Berlusconi’s eldest children, Marina and Pier Silvio, will jointly share majority control of his business empire the former Italian prime minister’s will reveals. Marina and Pier Silvio Berlusconi, who both already have executive roles in parts of the business, will hold equal stakes jointly adding up to around 53 per cent in the Fininvest […]

MFE-MediaForEurope has reported a net profit at group level of €216.9 million, down from €374.1 million in 2021 but an increase of 14 per cent on the pre-Covid 2019. Net profit at parent company MFE was €27.4 million, a significant drop on the net profit of €214.1 million a year earlier. Consolidated net revenues amounted […]