Sky Deutschland has reported its first-quarter operating loss improved to €40.6 million. The company added 73,000 new subscribers at the end of March, slightly better than forecast. The pay-TV broadcaster increased first quarter revenues by 18 per cent to €318 million. “Germany and Austria are amongst the highest potential markets for pay-TV across Europe, and the acceleration of demand across [...]
Canal Plus France, including its pay TV operations in mainland France, and Africa, attracted 211,000 new subscribers during the first quarter, ending March with a total of 12,817,000 customers. Revenues increased slightly to €1.03 billion from €1 billion a year ago. In France, ARPU increased €47.6. In Poland and Vietnam, the Vivendi-owned operator attracted 81,000 pay TV customers, ending March [...]
Channel operator AMC Networks, which counts hit series The Walking Dead and Mad Men among its programming, is benefiting from the online availability of such shows, according to President and Chief Executive Officer Josh Sapan. “New viewers are finding these shows on a digital service, catching up on prior seasons and then tuning into AMC for new seasons in greater [...]
Channel 4 group has reported a six-fold increase in losses at its main network to more than £40 million (€49m) in 2011, as ad revenues fell by almost 20 per cent. Group revenues rose 6.2 per cent year on year to £941 million in 2011, thanks to the TV ad sales contract Channel 4 has with pay-TV operator UKTV, but [...]
Thailand’s satellite operator Thaicom, formerly known as Shin Satellite, has moved from loss into profit helped by revenues from its iPSTAR-1 and Thaicom 5 satellites. Thaicom on May 14th said it had posted a net profit in Q1 (to March 31st) of Thai Bhat 42 million helped by a gain on foreign exchange of THB 12 million, while the company [...]
Cable operator Liberty Global reconfirmed its full year guidance targets as fourth quarter consolidated revenues went up 12 per cent year-on-year to $2.54 billion, driven mainly by the addition of KBW and Aster and organic revenue increase. Excluding the acquisition of KBW and Aster, revenue lifted 5.5 per cent to $2.54 billion. Liberty Global said the integration of the two [...]
Sony shares have slumped to a 31-year low, a day after the company reported a record annual loss of 456.7 billion yen ($5.7bn). Sony shares fell as much as 6.7 per cent to 1,132 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Sony, which has been making a loss for each of the past four years, has forecast that it will return [...]
Spain’s Telefonica said first-quarter net profit halved after the value of its stake in Telecom Italia plunged following a capital increase and it cut prices in its recession-hit home country. Net profit at the euro zone’s largest telecoms company fell 54 per cent to €748 million. The bottom line was hit after Telefonica wrote down the value of its 10 [...]
Luxembourg-based SES reported that it was continuing on its growth track in reporting its first quarter-year results early on May 11. Its y-o-y revenues grew 5.1 per cent (to €450 million), generating EBITDA of €337.3 million (up 4.9 per cent) and a margin of 74.9 per cent. Its contract backlog rose some €260 million from €6.83 billion to €6.59 billion. [...]
Eutelsat’s quarterly and 9-month financials show that its revenue growth remains firmly upward, although there are signs that its important ‘multi-usage’ segment is slowing in growth terms. Overall revenues are up 4.6 per cent for the quarter-year (to March 31st) and a matching 4.6 per cent for the 9 months to the same date. Video-based clients helped drive revenues up [...]
