Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network has reported revenue totaling $3.68 billion for the quarter ending September 30th, compared to $3.51 billion for the corresponding period in 2013. Subscriber-related revenue increased 5.3 per cent to $3.65 billion from $3.46 billion in the year-ago period. Net income attributable to Dish Network totaled $146 million for the quarter compared […]
German pay-TV company Sky Deutschland has reported its first quarterly net profit since 2007 as it prepares to be absorbed into a European media giant being formed by Britain’s BSkyB. Sky Deutschland, currently controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment group 21st Century Fox, reported a net profit of €12.3 million in the three months to September […]
Discovery Communications has reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30th 2014. Q3 revenues of $1,568 million increased $193 million, or 14, over the third quarter a year ago, as 32 per cent growth at International Networks was partially offset by a 1 per cent decline at US Networks, primarily due to additional […]
Satellite operator SES, reporting its Q3 figures, says it has delivered strong growth in Western Europe and International markets, with revenue of €1.4066 billion for the year to date, up 4.7 per cent over the prior year. It says it remains well placed to deliver long-term growth, expanding its core DTH business by securing rights […]
Time Warner Cable the cable company awaiting regulatory approval to merge with Comcast reported profit behind analysts’ estimates as more video subscribers canceled service and programming costs rose. Time Warner Cable lost 184,000 video customers in the third quarter, while rising costs for sports programming cut into profit. The company lowered its revenue forecast for […]
Mumbai-based Dish TV reported that it had added 378,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter (to September 30th) taking its total subscriber base to more than 12.1 million. However, despite increasing revenues 12.13 percent and being helped by a growth in HDTV subs, the broadcaster saw a net loss of $2.46 million (INR 151m). ARPU […]
Patrick Harshman, president/CEO at Harmonic, speaking to analysts following the company’s Q3/2014 results, said that Harmonic was increasingly seeing broadcasters “coming off” HD and finding ways of investing in Ultra HD/4K. “The past quarter we’ve grown incrementally more confident than Ultra HD 4K services will become real starting in 2015, and that these will be […]
Intelsat’s Q3 numbers showed the operator is still under pressure with quarterly revenues falling from $651.8 million last year to $608.6 million (down 6.6 per cent year-on-year) in the three months to September 30th. There were revenue falls in all of Intelsat’s key divisions, including its all-important Network Services which registered a fall in revenues […]
Discovery Networks International has closed the books on its biggest-ever quarter, with record viewing levels and online growth internationally. Reaching 643 million viewers outside the US (+6 per cent year-on-year) during Q3 2014, the pay-TV programmer continues to enjoy exponential growth – charting its highest-ever average audience (+8 per cent) and delivering new highs among […]
Telenor’s Q3 results show that its satellite broadcasting division suffered reduced revenues (year-on-year) falling from 2013’s NOK 241 million (€28.4m) to NOK 238 million. Telenor said revenues and EBITDA decreased partly due to lower revenues from TV distribution and offset by higher revenues from data communications. This translated into EBITDA revenues falling from NOK 171 […]