Disney Profit Tops Analysts’ Estimates
Disney gets the bulk of its profit from its TV division. Operating income at the unit, which includes ESPN, ABC and the Disney Channel, was …
Disney gets the bulk of its profit from its TV division. Operating income at the unit, which includes ESPN, ABC and the Disney Channel, was …
The increase to $154.1 million comes despite a 3.1% drop in core advertising from a year ago. The boost was driven by political, retrans and …
Local revenues, which include net local advertising revenues, retransmission consent fee revenues and TV station website revenues, increased …
The boost to $88.3 million is driven by political advertising dollars and increased retransmission consent revenue.
DirecTV reported second-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates as the World Cup lured Latin American customers. Earnings of …
Record digital/mobile advertising revenues and higher retransmission-related money drive the quarter’s revenue to $111 million. For …
Sony's April-June profit soared to 26.8 billion yen ($261 million) from 3.1 billion yen a year earlier. Analysts had forecast a loss. …
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Nielsen took in healthy second-quarter revenues, largely due to its acquisitions, including Arbitron. Nielsen says gains in audience …
CEO Tom Rogers’ efforts to persuade pay TV distributors to offer TiVo boxes to customers who want online and conventional video worked …
Gains were driven by higher ad revenue as well as increases in retrans and political money.
The Tokyo-based maker of the PlayStation 4 game machine, Bravia TVs and Walkman digital players also forecast a $490 million loss for the …
The tech firm’s President- CEO Johan Apel: "ChyronHego's revenues for the first quarter are ahead of plan.”
Strong local advertising, retransmission revenue growth, Olympics and higher-than-expected political money boost the TV group to $102 …
The increase to $37.7 million is driven by higher core advertising and retransmission consent money.
The drop was due to the lack of Super Bowl revenue this year and two fewer NCAA Tournament games.
Record core TV advertising, political and retransmission revenue drives record 1Q operating income of $27.7 million.
The increase comes from higher local, political and Internet advertising as well as higher retrans money.
Super Bowl and retrans money drives the company’s fiscal 3Q television segment revenue to $1.6 billion.
Excluding political, the station group reported local core broadcast revenue was up 49.3%, while national net broadcast revenues were down …
Sales at the ABC broadcasting operation were essentially flat at $1.5 billion but operating income was up 15% to $159 million as …
The company's four full-power and four low-power stations account for $4.5 million, the same as a year ago.
Graham Holdings Co. says the rise is due to a $3.1 million increase in political ad revenue, $9.5 million in incremental winter …
NEW YORK — The Associated Press said Wednesday that it posted a net profit of $3.3 million in 2013, as it cut costs across the …
Retransmission consent money was the big driver, climbing 85.6% to $9.8 million.
The gain, coming after the company’s merger with Young Broadcasting, reflects growth in all of its revenue categories. Automotive and …
Local revenues, which include net local advertising revenues, retransmission consent fee revenues and TV station website revenues, increased …
The rise comes from higher ad sales, greater retrans money and one month of operating KMOV St. Louis.
Factoring out contributions from the Belo acquisition, core is up 6.5%, while retrans grows 66.4% and digital rises 23%.
That huge jump comes from the Winter Olympics. But even without it, revenue was up 17% due to ad gains and higher retrans fees.
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Declines in barter revenue and political advertising were only partially offset by gains in retransmission consent money.
In the quarter, local ad revenue increased 13%, to $57 million; national was up 7%, to $16.2 million; Internet ad revenue grew 6%, to $7.0 …
Total revenue is up 98% for the quarter and 57% for the full year and both those are still up even discounting contributions from Hego, …
But excluding political and Olympics revenue, same-station core revenue increased 11% in the quarter. Same-station local was up 2%, while …
Political disparity is the big culprit. Core local and national television advertising revenue rose 17%, retrans grew 42% and digital …
Lower political could not be offset by increased ad revenue and higher retransmission consent money.
The expanding group’s core revenue growth of 47% in the quarter was supplemented by a 67% rise in retrans as well as a 24% jump in …
The decrease at the Post-Newsweek Stations comes from lower political advertising revenue, a lack of summer Olympics-related advertising at …
Revenues were $696.2 million for the final quarter of 2013, up from $671.7 million in 2012. Net income in Q4 was $172.2 million, versus …
But with political factored out, that number becomes a 9% increase. The TV network posted a 4% revenue gain, while cable networks were up …
On a same-station basis, excluding political, the acquisitive station group reported local core broadcast revenue was up 10.8%, while …
GM rode record North American earnings to a profit of $913 million, or 57 cents per share. That compares with $892 million, or 54 cents per …
The gain was helped by higher retransmission consent money, advertising in sports programming despite fewer political dollars and lower …