Announcing its first half-yearly results across the new Sky business following the acquisition of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia, the pay-TV operator is claiming an “excellent” first half with good momentum across the expanded business. Jeremy Darroch, Group Chief Executive, Sky, said the broadcaster had delivered an excellent operational and financial performance in its first […]
MTG, the free and pay-TV broadcast group, has posted Q4 revenues of SEK4.4 billion ($531 million) compared with SEK4.1 billion a year earlier. Full-year 2014 revenues of SEK15.8 billion compared with SEK14.1 billion a year earlier. EBIT profit was up in the most recent quarter to SEK468 million from SEK461 million a year earlier, but […]
UK comms and entertainment provider TalkTalk has revealed its best ever results for mobile, TV and fibre. Between September and December, 115,000 more homes signed up to TalkTalk TV, 50,000 took mobile and 88,000 signed up to fibre. The number of overall broadband customers increased by 15,000, while the number of customers choosing to leave […]
An authoritative report in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph says that Sky is bringing its launch of 4K transmissions forward dramatically to this spring. Sky, says the report, will launch its all-new ‘Project Ethan’ Ultra-HD set-top box to help counter the threat from BT’s exclusive deal to screen European Champions League and Europa League football. The […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat has announced strong quarterly results with the addition of 24,000 new homes in the three months to the end of December 2014. After adding 56,000 homes over the course of the year, Freesat is now available in over 1.9 million households and is watched by more than four million […]
Amino Technologies, the Cambridge-based specialist in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, OTT and in-home multimedia distribution, announces audited results for the year ended November 30th 2014. Commenting on the results, Keith Todd CBE, Non-Executive Chairman, stated: “2014 was an important year for Amino where we have turned the corner and moved into a period where […]
UK telco BT has revealed plans to transform the UK broadband landscape from superfast to ultrafast. The announcement came as BT reported its Q3 Results which showed it had added 45,000 TV customers and continued to grow its BT Sport residential and commercial customer bases. In just over a year since launch, 25,000 commercial premises […]
Chromecast, Google’s HDMI dongle that has been on the market for 18 months, is still riding high. According to analyst group NPD, Chromecast was the top selling streaming device throughout the US in the year of 2014, with users casting more than 1 billion times since its launch. Google’s Chief Business Officer Omid Kordestani said […]
Viacom’s first-quarter earnings fell as the company’s domestic ad revenues fell 6 per cent. Net earnings were $500 million down 9 per cent from $547 million a year ago. Total revenue increased 5 per cent to $3.34 billion. Operating income for Viacom’s Media Networks unit, which includes Nickelodeon and MTV, was down 1 per cent […]
Jeremy Darroch will unveil his latest set of numbers for his Sky Europe trio of pay-TV broadcasters on February 4th, and one market analyst admits it could be a “bit of a mess”. The criticism is not about the numbers themselves but for the market to get a handle on a new set of benchmarks. […]