Spain’s largest cable company ONO ended the first quarter with a net benefit of €15 million, up 66.2 per cent, over total revenues of €383 million, up 5 per cent with EBITDA growing by 4 per cent to €186 million. ONO’s TiVo service is increasingly growing with now 16,000 clients. Today, 60 per cent of […]
At The Cable Show 2012 in Boston, May 21-23, Arris Group will showcase an array of new products that expand its vision of next generation converged IP solutions. The Company will demonstrate how it can help cable service providers reach their service goals and satisfy subscribers’ demands for bandwidth, content and anytime/anywhere flexibility. “Today’s consumers […]
Danish cable operator TDC’s Q1 revenue increase 0.5 per cent to DKK 6.644 billion (€880m). Profit for the period excluding exceptional totalled DKK 740 million, down by DKK 133 million (15.2 per cent). TDC saw its best quarterly pay-TV subscriber growth with 37,000 additions driven by HomeTrio Mini and YouSee following market changes. The number […]
Zon Multimedia shares rose as much as 1.3 per cent after shareholder Isabel dos Santos increased her stake in Portugal’s biggest cable-television provider to 14.9 per cent. Dos Santos agreed to buy 4.9 per cent of the Zon through her Amsterdam-based holding company Jadeium, adding to the 10 per cent stake she already controlled through […]
Mexican MSO Megacable reported 1.98 million pay-TV subscribers, up 15 per cent y-o-y, with 1.04 million of that number hooked up to the company’s digital services (53 percent of the total). Megacable enjoyed a dramatic shift towards digital during the year, with growth of 78 per cent. Megacable started its digital roll-out a year ago […]
With cable and satellite TV platforms facing the threat of ‘cord-cutting’ from viewers cancelling their pay-TV subscriptions in favour of connected TV and over-the-top TV alternatives, US cable TV industry trade body the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has launched a multimedia campaign positioning cable as being ‘More than TV. It’s How We Connect’. […]
Comcast, the largest cable company in the US, reported a 30 per cent profit increase in the first quarter, beating expectations on the strength of Super Bowl advertising and its popular broadband service. It reported that its net income rose to $1.22 billion between January and March, up from $943 million in the same period […]
Adelphia Communications was once the USA’s fifth-largest cable MSO. Its founder, John Rigas along with son Tim Rigas, were convicted back in 2004 of securities fraud. The company itself went bankrupt in 2006 and its assets split between Comcast and Time Warner. Now the Southern District of New York has confirmed to the 8,500 claimants […]
Time Warner Cable, the second-largest US cable-television provider, has reported improved first-quarter financials, but said it lost 94,000 residential video subscribers to end March with about 12.47 million. In the period last year it had lost 42,000 subscribers. First-quarter earnings of $383 million rose 18 per cent from $326 million in the year-ago period. Revenue […]
Reporting its Q1 2012, Virgin Media says it is making steady progress against forecasts. Most notable is the incline by 1.7 per cent year on year in the ARPU to £46.95 (€57) boosted by further penetration for TiVo, up 242,000 to 677,000 or 18 per cent of the subs base. Turnover was up 2.4 per […]