Subhash Chandra-backed Dish TV has enjoyed its best Q1 for three years in terms of net subscriber additions, at 390,000 (332,000 same period last year). Good as this is it wasn’t quite as favourable as Q4 last year when it added 404,000 net new subs to its total. Nevertheless, Dish’s formal guidance is to expect […]
Twitter’s Q2 revenue and earnings have beaten expectations, but co founder Jack Dorsey has said he is “not satisfied” with its user growth. The social media site posted revenue of $502 million (€321m), up 61 per cent year-on-year and beating its own top forecast of $485 million. But active users reached 316 million in the […]
Pay-radio operator Sirius-XM reported another record-breaking quarter (Q2) with revenues up 8 per cent at $1.12 billion, and net income of $103 million. Churn is also at a very low (“outstanding”) 1.6 per cent/month, according to Jim Meyer, CEO, and down from last year’s 1.8 per cent. Net subscriber growth was 692,000 (up 46 per […]
Harmonic’s was a “tale of two businesses” in Q2 said CEO Patrick Harshman revealing a 13 per cent rise in sales for the VOS software media processing platform but a 28 per cent decline at its Cable Edge (QAM, CCAP) business. Overall Q2 revenues were down 1 per cent, to $103 million (€93.2m). Harmonic posted […]
ITV reported a 25 per cent increase in pre-tax profits, despite a 4 per cent drop in audience numbers in the first half of this year. The commercial broadcaster said pre-tax profits rose 25 per cent to £391 million (€552.3m) in the first half of the year, adjusted for amortisation and acquisition costs. On a […]
Pace, developer of technologies and products for pay-TV and broadband service providers, has published its results for the 6 months to June 30th 2015. Over the first half, EBITA rose 11 per cent to $118 million (€107m). H1 revenue was $1.08 billion, compared with $1.14 billion a year ago. In April, it was announced that […]
Rightster, the digital video distribution and monetisation network, has reported during the first six months of its financial year to June 30th 2015, it continues to show strong growth across the business. Unaudited net revenue in the period reached approximately £7 million (€9.8m), an increase of 268 per cent from the same period last year. […]
AT&T lost 22,000 U-verse TV subscribers in Q2, compared to 190,000 net adds in the same quarter a year ago. The US telco, which ended Q2 with 5.97 million video subs, blamed typical “seasonality” over cord-cutting, alongside the decision to target promotions to more profitable, higher-value subscribers. “On the U-verse video side, the first point […]
SES has signed agreements for a further three UHD channels to be launched by the end of the year, and these are in addition to the 4K service already announced for Sky Deutschland and a shopping channel (pearl.tv) scheduled to launch in September. CEO Karim Michel Sabbagh, in the SES half-year financial statement, said that […]
It seems investor confidence in satellite operator Intelsat is evaporating. There has been a steady fall in the company’s Common stock share price, and Thursday (July 23rd) was no better with a fall of 3.34 per cent to an all-time historic low point of just $7.82. A week ago it stood at $8.70. On October […]