Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable network operator, has reported that its Q3 revenue grew 6.8 per cent to €548 million from last year’s €513 million, mainly on strong growth in Internet and Phone Business revenue. Net profit, however, fell 9.9 per cent to €66 million from last year’s €73 million. In Premium TV, Kabel Deutschland […]
Cisco has reported second quarter results for the period ended January 23rd 2016. Revenue was $11.8 billion, up 2 per cent with product revenue also up 2 per cent. Service revenue growth was 3 per cent. Revenue by geographic segment was: Americas and EMEA each up 1 per cent, and APJC up 11 per cent. […]
The Walt Disney Company has reported record quarterly earnings of $2.9 billion (€2.6bn) for its first fiscal quarter ended January 2nd 2016 compared to $2.2 billion for the prior-year quarter. “Driven by the phenomenal success of Star Wars, we delivered the highest quarterly earnings in the history of our Company, marking our 10th consecutive quarter […]
Viacom’s shares crashed a worrying 21.5 per cent on February 9th following on from a troubling set of results and not helped by recent succession worries. Analysts at MoffettNathanson Research summed up the day by bluntly saying “All of our hoped-for catalysts appear to be gone”. A report to clients stated that they had expected […]
The successful launch of Telenor Satellite’s latest satellite, Thor-7, last April was the catalyst for helping revenues grow (up 5 per cent) at the Norwegian operator. The company says the new satellite has delivered the additional growth capacity needed to expand business overall, although the improved revenues were also helped by the stronger US dollar. […]
21st Century Fox has reported financial results for the three months ended December 31st 2015. The Company reported total quarterly revenues of $7.38 billion, a decrease of $49 million, or 1 per cent, from the $7.42 billion of adjusted revenues reported in the prior year. The decline compared to last year’s adjusted revenues reflects higher […]
Swedish cablenet Com Hem has posted Q4 revenues up 3.3 per cent at SEK 1.271 billion (€130m) and has seen TV take-up boosted by its TiVo offering. Anders Nilsson, CEO, Com Hem, commented: “Our final quarter of 2015 was another consistent quarter, with steady execution on our growth drivers delivering a sound foundation for the […]
In the last quarter of 2015, Vodafone Spain saw its revenues fall by 1.3 per cent to €1.256 billion from the same period the previous year with revenues per service dropping by 3.1 per cent to €1.116 billion. The company did manage however to surpass 1 million TV subscribers after adding 100,000 new customers in […]
Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has posted a strong final quarter to 2015, with the addition of 36,000 new homes in the three months to December 2015. After adding 61,000 homes over the course of 2015, Freesat is now available in over 1.93 million households and is watched by more than four million […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM outperformed market expectations last year by a considerable amount. CEO James Meyer told analysts that 2015 was “an incredible year” for SiriusXM. “We exceeded all of our original operational and financial goals, and we are predicting continued growth in subscribers and all of our financial metrics this year. Last January, we told […]