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The total during the company’s fiscal 3Q rose to $85 million, led by ad gains in the auto, retail and furnishing categories as well as increases in retrans fees.

However, a large drop in political money was mostly offset by a 55% increase in retrans fees and an 18% gain in digital revenue.

U.S. Hispanic media giant Univision Communications reports its net revenue in the first quarter grew to $562 million from $528.4 million in 1Q 2012.

A 58.7% gain in retrans revenue and a 2.3% increase in core advertising revenues more than offset lower advertising associated with the move of the Super Bowl to the company’s six CBS stations from its 12 NBC stations and a decrease in political spending of $3.4 million.

NEW YORK — The Associated Press said Monday that its revenue declined slightly in 2012 because U.S. elections and the Olympics drew less interest than expected, but it was largely […]

The company’s four full-power and four low-power stations account for $4.9 million, up from $4.1 a year ago. For the year, TV revenue is up to $18.5 million.

In addition to its earnings results, Chyron also announced an agreement to purchase Sweden-based Hego Group. Michael Wellesley-Wesley, Chyron CEO, says: “By combining the teams and resources of Chyron and Hego, we will deliver to our customers a highly diverse and compelling broadcast graphics capability.” The company’s new name will be ChyronHego.

That influx is helped by higher national ad money and increased retans consent revenue.  

The group’s core fourth quarter revenue growth of 8.8% benefited from a 12% rise in auto advertising and was complemented by a 55.9% rise in retransmission fee revenue and 24.9% increase in digital revenue.

The 4Q gain to $46.7 million is driven by political and an 81% increase in retrans money. Full-year rev climbs 15% to $147.3 million.

Fourth quarter revenue was up 76%, boosted by the eight stations acquired from New Vision in October. Local revenue was up 39%, national up 25%, interactive up 52%. For the full year, revenue rose 38% to $553.5 million.

Political ad money fueled the rise in same-station revenue, aided by an 11% gain in local, a 12% rise in national and a 41% increase in retrans revenue.

Political and Olympics advertising and retransmission consent money are among the drivers. The TV and cable divisions are the only Washington Post Co. segments to post revenue gains.

Strong advertising gains helped Univision Communications add nearly 10% to its revenue coffers in the fourth quarter 2012. Fourth-quarter revenue climbed 9% to $672 million for the Spanish-language media company’s TV, radio and digital businesses.

Dish Network’s fourth quarter and 2012 net income took a hit due to higher programming costs and a big litigation settlement. Net income was less than half of its results in 2011 — $637 million versus $1.5 billion. Net income in the fourth quarter 2012 was down about a third to $209 million from $313 million the fourth quarter.

Political advertising , retransmission consent money and Internet ad revenue push revenue up 50% to $126.6 million in the quarter. For the year, revenue is up 32% to $404.8 million.

Stripping out political revenues, local and national advertising dollars fell nearly 10% at Allbritton Communications in the last three months of 2012. But the company said in a government filing that was principally the result of political advertisers eating up the space.

“CBS had a record year in 2012, as well as a record fourth quarter, and the momentum is building for an even better 2013,” said Leslie Moonves, president-CEO, CBS Corp. “Advertising revenue is growing, and our revenue from non-advertising sources continues to grow even faster.”

Revenue from the segment increased 7.9% to $2 billion, driven by strong primetime ratings at the NBC network, as well as higher political ad money at the owned stations.

Political ad revenue and retrans gains help boost the quarter’s revenue to $205 million, full year’s to $715 million.

The company reported a 10.7 billion yen ($115 million) loss for the October-December quarter compared with a 158 billion yen loss a year earlier. Quarterly sales inched up nearly 7% to 1.95 trillion yen ($21 billion) despite declining sales of gadgets such as flat-panel TVs and Blu-ray video recorders, but only because Sony got a boost from a weaker yen. Sony has lost money for the past four years as it fell behind powerful rivals such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in profitability and innovation.

A 7.9% gain in television revenue is driven by a more than doubling of retransmission consent revenues and increased local advertising at the Fox Television Stations led by political advertising revenues. Cable revenue was up 18%.

Local net broadcast revenues, which include local time sales, retransmission revenues, and other broadcast revenues, were up 33.7% in the fourth quarter 2012, while national net broadcast revenues, which include national time sales and other national broadcast revenues, were up 58.8% versus the fourth quarter 2011.

The entertainment company’s believers and skeptics will find something to support their cases in the report this morning about its Q4 results. Time Warner generated net income of $1.17B, +51.3% vs the period last year, on revenues of $8.16B, -3.5%. Revenues were a little short of analysts’ consensus forecast for $8.25B. But adjusted earnings at $1.17 a share were well ahead of predictions for $1.10.

Walt Disney’s first fiscal quarter got dinged a bit from lower home entertainment and studio results and higher costs at ESPN — but investors held their ground. The broadcasting side of the business, the ABC network and its stations, did well — thanks to stronger advertising revenues. Broadcast revenues were up 6% with operating income 16% higher.

The growth was driven by $91.2 million in politically related advertising during the fourth quarter of 2012 and a 39% boost in retransmission revenues to $29.6. For the full year, broadcasting revenue is up 25.4%.