In its half-year results (to December 31st), Sky says that an overall 337,000 new customers joined Sky in Q2 and helping “the highest UK and Ireland customer growth for 10 years”. Sky’s customers bought 1.1 million new products. UK & Ireland growth during Q2 was 205,000, with 146,000 new TV customers jhoining in the pre-Christmas […]
Online retails giant Amazon’s Q4 saw operating cash flow increased 74 per cent to $11.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $6.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31st 2014. OTT and TV device highlights for quarter include: – Fire TV remains the #1 best-selling streaming media player in the U.S., having […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat has enjoyed a good few days in terms of its share price and helped by a very positive pair of reports from investment banks. One report, from equity analysts at Exane/BNP-Paribas, comes with a “BUY” recommendation and a target share price up 22 per cent at €35 a share (and already rising […]
SES’ German HD platform HD+ recorded an 11.3 per cent increase in subscribers in 2015. HD+ had 1.84 million subscribers at year-end 2015, compared to 1.65 million at year-end 2014. In addition, HD+ had over 1.1 million customers in their six-month free-trial period. Users of HD+ have access to more than 50 HD channels, comprised […]
Time Warner Cable (TWC) reported its best video and high-speed data customer metrics for years in the fourth quarter. It added 54,000 basic video customers and 32,000 for the year, its first 12-month positive customer growth in that segment since 2006. TWC also added 281,000 high-speed data customers in the quarter, one million for the […]
Lost in the market worries about slowing iPhone sales, Apple TV recorded its highest sales quarter. In financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter Apple posted record revenue of $75.9 billion (€69.7bn) and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion. These results compare to revenue of $74.6 billion and net income of $18 billion, in the year-ago […]
Semiconductor specialist STMicroelectronics is to discontinue the development of new platforms and standard products for set-top-box and home gateway, citing “significant” losses in an increasingly difficult market. It revealed the closure as it reported its 2015 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results showing 2015 net revenues of $6.90 billion (€6.35) and net income of […]
The largest Russian Pay TV operator Tricolor TV has summarised its activities in 2015. The provider’s annual receipts that grew from year to year have increased for more than 40%, and the number of subscribers having access to high-definition television has increased for 45%. Opening of the corporate retail chain and launch of the first […]
Continued international subscriber growth for streaming service Netflix – which added 4.04 million in the final three months of 2015 – could be threatened by the cost and availability of high-speed broadband in many of the 130 additional territories it is expanding into. According to a Deutsche Bank
Yesterday’s news that Sky has signed a pan-European agreement with US premium programming giant Showtime (itself part of the CBS/Viacom empire) is more good news for the pay-TV broadcaster. The news helped balance what is proving to be a challenging pre-results period for Sky. Equity analysts are concerned over how well Germany and Italy are […]