French quad-play operator Free has posted Q3 consolidated revenues up 5.3 per cent to € 1.111 billion, and a total subscriber base of 17 million, which includes 6.08 million broadband and ultra-fast broadband subscribers. Over the quarter, Free, an Iliad Groupsubsidiary, registered 91,000 new broadband and ultra-fast broadband subscribers. Free’s consolidated revenues for the first […]
Viacom has reported financial results. Quarterly revenues declined 5 per cent to $3.79 billion. Excluding an unfavorable 3 per cent impact of foreign exchange, revenues decreased 2 per cent. Media Networks revenues grew 5 per cent to $2.79 billion, principally due to growth in affiliate fees and international advertising revenues, partially offset by declines in […]
RTL Group has raised its full-year revenue guidance, bossted by the positive impact of exchange rates, its digital business and a growing German television ads market. The Europeanbroadcaster, which is controlled by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, expects annual revenue to rise by between 2.5 and 5 per cent, compared with a previous forecast for an […]
Following the acquisition of primacom, Tele Columbus, the third largest German cable network operator, has published for the first time consolidated results of the combined Tele Columbus and primacom Group. In the third quarter 2015, affected by the primacom results for August and September, Tele Columbus reached revenues of €73.9 million. In the same period, […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset ended the first nine months of 2015 with pay-TV revenues of €406.1 million, compared to the €402.5 million in the same period in 2014. During a conference call with analysts, the president of pay-TV unit Mediaset Premium, Marco Giordano, said the number of subscribers reached 1.81 million at end-September. He added […]
US pay-TV giant Dish Network has seen an increase in subscriber churn in its Q3 period. Dish Network said that while its profits topped Wall Street expectations, it lost 23,000 net pay-TV subscribers in the quarter, compared with a loss of 12,000 a year earlier. Dish does not break apart its core DTH subscriber numbers […]
Canal+’s performance in the first nine months of 2015 was boosted by strong performances in Africa and Vietnam and by the Canalplay SVoD service in France, but the French pay-TV provider saw a decline in its French subscribers. Canal+ added 619,000 subscribers in the year to September 30th, taking its total to 15.4 million, while […]
Along with its results, Vodafone reported it plans to launch its long-awaited TV service in the UK in the fourth quarter of its 2016 financial year, or by March next year. Vodafone launched home broadband service in October, with availability to 22 million homes, or 95 per cent of BT’s fibre footprint. The company reported […]
ITV saw Q3 ad revenues rise 8 per cent as the Rugby World Cup proved a hit with viewers and advertisers, putting the commercial broadcaster on track for another year of record profits. ITV said that for the first nine months of the year, total revenues, including for its online and production arm, were up […]
Telefónica had 2.5 million TV customers in Spain at the end of September, up 275,000 quarter-on-quarter and up 1.6 million compared with the same period last year. The company’s Movistar Fusión bundled offering had four million customers at the end of the period, accounting for close to 90 per cent of gross additions for the […]