French rocket launch company Arianespace reported impressive revenues for 2015, and helped by problems amongst its rival launch companies (notably less activity from SpaceX and the Russian Proton system). Overall revenues were €1.433 billion, and up 2.4 per cent on 2014. Arianespace’s net profits, however, were just €4 million from 12 overall launches (6 by […]
Multi-channel programmer UKTV – an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive – has recorded a 13 per cent leap in revenues and a 10 per cent increase in EBITDA on the back of a ratings performance that now puts its share of commercial impacts (SOCI) ahead of Sky and Channel […]
Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable network operator, has announced its pro forma FY2015 results (based on the assumption that the primacom and pepcom acquisitions had occurred on January 1st 2015). – For the full year 2015, pro forma revenues of the Group were €460.7 million – Pro forma 2015 total output for the […]
Spanish TV group Mediapro, owner of La Liga TV rights, ended 2015 with an EBITDA of €129 million, up 40 per cent on last year, with plans to reach €170 million by the end of 2016. With a staff of 4,300 people, the group has consolidated as one of the largest TV groups in Spain […]
Spanish public broadcaster, RTVE, lost €37.8 million in 2015 and ended the year with its worst audience rating, 9.8 per cent for La 1 versus 14.7 per cent in 2011. The company argued that the losses were the result of “insufficent revenues” urging the government to compensate it via state subsidies as the TV group […]
Despite the downward trend of the Italian pay-TV market in 2015, broadcaster Mediaset reported increased pay-TV revenues – €558.8 million compared to €538.4 million in 2014. Contributing to the growth was the availability of exclusive and high quality content, generating an 11 per cent growth of furnover in the second half of 2015. The number […]
Last week, Hong Kong-based AsiaSat unveiled lower revenues (down 4 per cent) for 2015 and said it expected more headwinds for 2016 as pricing pressures from competitors force down transponder and bandwidth rental prices. AsiaSat’s chairman, Ju Wei Min, in a statement, warned shareholders that the satellite operator was being squeezed and non-renewals of contracts […]
German cable provider Tele Columbus has reported strong growth driven by its primacom and pepcom acquisitions. The group reported €278.7 million of revenues for the full year, and in Q4 of the fiscal year 2015, the group reached €96.9 million of revenue. The new Tele Columbus Group consisting of Tele Columbus, primacom and pepcom represents […]
Altice, the French telco group in the midst of buying Cablevision Systems for $10 billion, said it expects an improving trend in revenue in 2016 after its home unit achieved subscriber growth in the final quarter of 2015. The company reported flat revenue year-over-year at €17.5 billion. Its French mobile phone and cable business SFR, […]
RTL Group has reported that 2015 revenue increased 3.8 per cent to €6,029 million (2014: €5,808 million), mainly driven by increasing revenue at Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, growing digital revenue and favourable exchange rate effects RTL Group said its revenue is well diversified, with 53.7 per cent from broadcast advertising (TV and radio), 22 per cent […]