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Content investment boosts UKTV

Commercial broadcaster UKTV’s focus on investment in exclusive and original programming generated record ratings, revenue and profit in 2014. Officially the fastest growing broadcaster in Britain, UKTV’s £123 million investment in content produced strong growth in commercial impacts and in its on demand services. UKTV – an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and […]

May 19, 2015

Vodafone: German CEO steps down

Vodafone has reported full year group revenue up 10.1 per cent to £42.2 billion (€58.4m); full year like for like service revenue declined 1.6 per cent. Vodafone saw a return to growth in Q4 with organic service revenue up 0.1 per cent. Vittorio Colao, Group Chief Executive, commented:  “It has been a year of continued […]

May 19, 2015

Kabel Deutschland profit €239m

Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator, has reported net profit of €239 million for the fiscal year ended March 31st 2015, compared to a net loss of €68 million in the previous fiscal year. EBITDA amounted to €939 million compared to €910 million one year earlier; an increase of 3.3 per cent. The Group reported […]

May 18, 2015

Movistar tops 2m pay-TV subs

Telefonica’s Movistar TV has managed to triple the number of subscribers to 2.1 million at the end of the first quarter of the year,  It gained 255,000 pay-TV subs to March against 58,000 a year earlier. Its convergence offer Movistar Fusion now has 3.9 million subs, up 21 per cent year-on-year, with 50 per cent […]

May 14, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid

ITV ad revenues up, audience down

Commercial broadcaster ITV has posted 14 per cent growth in net revenue for the three months ending March 2015. Total revenue was £665 million (€920m), up from £585 million during the same period last year. Broadcast and online revenue was also up by 10 per cent, to £530 million, along with the studios division, which […]

May 14, 2015

Quad-play demand drives TalkTalk growth

UK comms provider TalkTalk has reported a strong year of growth driven by more customers choosing bundled ‘quad–play’ phone, broadband, TV and mobile packages. In the last 12 months, over a million TV, broadband, fibre and mobile customers joined TalkTalk, which the operator says demonstrates the demand for value for money services. The popularity of […]

May 14, 2015

Eutelsat: 5747 channels, up 10.3%

Eutelsat ticked all of the right boxes in declaring its 3 months and 9 months revenue and profit numbers. But despite a slew of highly positive statements analysts remain concerned that Eutelsat is now introducing various caveats as to future performance. Total revenues at the Paris-based satellite operator for the 9 months to March 31st […]

May 13, 2015By Chris Forrester

Deutsche Telekom “investments paying off”

Deutsche Telekom has reported a quarterly profit helped by its US operations and the weak euro.  EBITDA excluding special items rose to €4.57 billion. Profit was helped by €175 million from an out-of-court settlement with Liberty Global’s German unit Unitymedia over the acquisition of KabelBW. Europe’s largest telco by revenue said it still expected 2015 […]

May 13, 2015

Tele Columbus: “IPO a success”

Tele Columbus Group, the third largest German cable network operator, started the financial year 2015 with gains in all relevant key figures. Revenues grew by 2.2 per cent year on year to €53.6 million in the first quarter of 2015. Normalised EBITDA grew significantly by 11.7 per cent year on year to €24.4 million in […]

May 12, 2015

Altice reports strong Q1

Altice, the Luxembourg-based telco, has reported a 3.3 per cent drop in pro forma revenues for its first quarter to March 31st, to €3.26 billion. Although turnover from international operations rose 4.9 per cent to €527 million, sales at Altice’s core French business Numericable-SFR dropped 4.7 per cent to €2.74 billion. The French unit is […]

May 12, 2015