For the first time in the last one and half years, Prisa TV, owner of digital DTH platform Canal Plus, has seen an increase in the number of its pay-TV subscribers. The new football pay-TV season boosted its subscriptions with over 23,000 new clients. It is the first positive gain since Q1 2012, and now […]
Spain’s largest cable operator, Ono, continues losing subs but achieved profit in the third quarter of the year. The company’s residential cable customer base declined by 1.7 per cent year-on-year to 1.7 million users. Around 95.5 per cent of Ono’s customer base use voice services, up from 95.2 per cent a year earlier, with the […]
Canal+ Group announced that at the end of September its channels had reached almost 14 million subscribers, up a million year-on-year, thanks to last year’s Polish merger between its Cyfra+ unit and TVN Group’s ‘n’ pay-TV platform. In its nine months numbers parent Vivendi revealed Canal+ Group growth was also delivered good numbers in Africa […]
YOU On Demand, a multi-platform entertainment and VoD company in China, has released its unaudited operating results for the three-month period ended September 30th 2013. On November 5th, the company announced that C Media Limited, a China-based mobile video service provider, raised its aggregate strategic investment in YOU On Demand to $6 million, with an […]
Pace has announced his Management Statement for the period July 1st 2013 to November 13th 2013. Trading in the period has shown good progress with continued momentum across the business. Key wins have been achieved in the period giving further confidence for 2014. Project delivery for the new wins is well underway and the underlying […]
Cisco Systems has forecast a steep drop in revenue. The company said that it expected an 8-10 per cent fall in current-quarter revenue. Cisco reported lower-than-expected revenue for the quarter ended October 26th mainly due to a fall in sales to telecom and cable service providers and in emerging markets. Cisco Chief Financial Officer Frank […]
Viacom said earnings rose in the fourth quarter as revenues rose at its cable networks. Net earnings were $804 million compared to $650 million a year ago. Revenues rose 9 per cent to $3.7 billion. “Viacom’s commitment to creative and operational excellence, and our continued investment in content, delivered an outstanding quarter and strong fiscal […]
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset ended the first nine months of 2013 with net revenues of €2.39 billion and EBIT of €109.6 million. The results, approved by the Board of Directors, also show that pay-TV revenues from the Mediaset Premium service rose 7.3 per cent to €410.3 million, compared with €382.4 million in the first nine […]
TalkTalk has shrugged off the football rights war between bigger rivals BSkyB and BT as the telecoms group added 167,000 TV customers in the last three months. “That’s more TV customers than BT, Sky and Virgin put together,” said chief executive Dido Harding. “Not everyone wants to pay a premium for TV sport.” TalkTalk – […]
RTL Group has struck a cautious tone on its outlook, saying it expected a full-year operating profit of more than €1 billion. Previously, RTL had said it expected to achieve EBITA of €1.08 billion, similar to last year’s. Europe’s biggest broadcaster, which is majority-owned by Germany’s Bertelsmann, said third-quarter revenue dropped 2.1 per cent to […]