Earnings

Earnings: Liberty Interactive Up 10 Percent; IAC Resolution ‘Possible’; Starz-Viacom Competition - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 May 2008 12:04 PM PST

Maybe it’s just the time of day but looking at Liberty Media’s (NSDQ: LINTA) Q1 earnings and listening to the call is making my head hurt. While thorn-in-the-side Barry Diller…

Earnings: Primedia Profit Nosedives 87 Percent, As Ad Revenue Remains Flat - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 May 2008 06:09 AM PST

Consumer guide publisher Primedia (NYSE: PRM) profits plummeted 87 percent to $13.6 million in Q1 from $104.7 million the year before. The $91.1 loss was attributed to residual affects, such…

Earnings: Cablevision Widens Net Loss In Q1, Though Revenues Rise 10 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 May 2008 05:24 AM PST

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) was already having a big news week with its proposed $496 million purchase of the Sundance Channel and its $650 million bid challenging News Corp (NYSE: NWS).…

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Earnings: WMG Revs Up 2 Percent; Loss Deepens; Digital Up 47.6 Percent; Dividend Cancelled - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 08 May 2008 04:22 AM PST

Another challenging quarter for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), which has suspended its dividend in the name of “financial flexibility.” The label announced quarterly revenue of $800 million, up 2…

10-Q Watch: NYTCo: $1.9 Million Invested In QuadrantOne; Newspaper Buy; Epsilen; Debt Rating - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 04:27 PM PST

Some highlights from NYTCo’s (NYSE: NYT) 10-Q filed this evening: -- QuadrantOne: “In February 2008, the Company invested $1.9 million for a 25% ownership interest in quadrantONE LLC, a consortium…

10-Q Watch: IAC: Liberty Appeal Deadline Today; Ticketmaster Acquisitions; New IAC Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 03:37 PM PST

It looks like the clock has run out on Liberty if it wants to appeal the ruling it lost to IAC: according to IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) just-filed 10-q, the appeal…

Earnings: Macrovision Call: TVGuide Mag To Be Sold Without Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 02:32 PM PST

As we first reported, Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) is indeed looking to sell TVGuide the magazine sans its online home, TVGuide.com. Said CFO James Budge: “We expect the online properties to…

Updated: Chernin On FIM: ‘Yes, We Will Fall Short’ On $1B Revenue; ‘Too Soon To Milk For Margins’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:59 PM PST

First chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch got defensive about Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), then News Corp COO Peter Chernin hit the stories about Fox Interactive Media not making its $1…

Updated: Murdoch Comes Out Swinging On DJ; Defends Deal; Not Giving Up On Newsday - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:45 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch is intent on changing the Street’s image of News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) investment in Dow Jones and he’s using today’s earnings call to make the case that the…

Earnings: News Corp Q1 Revenues Up 16 Percent; ‘Strong Revenue Growth’ For FIM—Higher Costs, Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:08 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch probably won’t send a thank-you note to John Malone but News Corp (NYSE: NWS) delivered a profit of $2.7 billion, or $0.91 per share, up dramatically from $827…

Earnings: WebMD’s In Q1 Losses On Charges; Revenues Up 14 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 May 2008 12:47 PM PST

WebMD (NSDQ: WBMD), which has already pre-announced its lower guidance for the year, has now announced its Q108 results, and revenue came in at $81.7 million compared to $71.9 million…

Earnings: TechTarget’s Q1:Small Losses; Revenues Up 30 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 May 2008 11:54 AM PST

TechTarget (NSDQ: TTGT), the B2B tech media company, has reported its Q108 earnings numbers, and total revenues increased by 30 percent to $23.9 million, compared to $18.3 million for the…

Earnings: DirecTV Q1 Revs Up 17 Percent; Net Income Up 10 Percent; Strong Gains In Latin America - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 04:00 AM PST

A solid quarter from DirecTV (NYSE: DTV), which reported a 17 percent rise in revenue to $4.6 billion from $3.9 billion. Net income was up just over 10 percent to…

Earnings: THQ Bombs, $35.3 Million Loss For ‘08 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 06 May 2008 01:44 PM PST

THQ reported net $1,030.5 million for the 12 months ending March 31 2008, a slight increase on the $1,026.9 million in sales the previous year (and the companies 13th consecutive…

Earnings: United Online Q1 Revs Slip 6 Percent; Classmates Revs Up 22 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 01:22 PM PST

United Online (NSDQ: UNTD), the owner of a dial-up business, Classmates.com and eventually flower company FTD, announced Q1 revenue of $121.8 million, a 6 percent slide from $129.9 million in…

Earnings: ValueClick Q1 Profits Gain 3.2 Percent, Revs Up 12 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 01:21 PM PST

Online ad firm ValueClick (NSDQ: VCLK) posted modestly higher Q1 net income of $19.2 million, or $0.19 per diluted common share, a 3.2 percent gain over last year’s $18.6 million,…

Earnings: Cisco Revs Up 10 Percent; Sees Weak Growth In Current Quarter; Cable Co. Revs Down - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 01:10 PM PST

Economic bellwether and online video beneficiary Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) has announced earnings, up 10 percent to $9.8 billion from $8.9 billion in the year-ago quarter ending March 31. This is…

Earnings: Disney Q1 Beats Estimates Handily; Net Income Up 22 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 May 2008 01:02 PM PST

The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company disappointed only the naysayers today for the most part today, turning in yet another quarter of the kind that produces gushing from the TV…

Earnings Preview: Disney, News Corp.; Plus ValueClick, United Online, Macrovision, THQI, TechTarget - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 10:51 AM PST

We’re past a lot of the big ones, but this is another crazy week for earnings. So far today, we’ve heard from Alibaba, Playboy and WWE. Up next: -- Disney:…

Despite Being Rebuffed By TNS, WPP Continues To Hold On; Higher Offer Expected - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 08:27 AM PST

Although WPP Group’s $1.9 billion offer to acquire audience researcher Taylor Nelson Sofres was rejected over the the weekend, the UK ad holding firm is still pressing the TNS’ board…

Earnings: WWE Q1 Digital Revs Up 15 Percent; Total Revs Up Big On Event Timing - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 05:41 AM PST

World Wrestling Entertainment reported revenue of $162.6 million, up big from $107.4 million in the year-ago quarter. However the company benefited from the timing of its Wrestlemania event, which didn’t…

Earnings: Playboy Swings To Loss; Online Revs Drop 3 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 May 2008 05:13 AM PST

Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) reported a Q1 net loss of $3.1 million, or $0.09 per basic and diluted share, compared to net income of $5.1 million last year. Revenues were…

Earnings: Alibaba.com Q1 Revs Up 53 Percent; Sees Pressure On Global Trade - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 04:25 AM PST

Alibaba.com, the Chinese B2B marketplace and a key puzzle piece in valuing Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), announced Q1 revs of RMB680.1 million ($97.3 million) for 53.2 percent growth over last year.…

Earnings: Virgin Mobile’s Q1 Was Tough; Looking At Strategic Opportunities For Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 05 May 2008 03:27 PM PST

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) released its first quarter earnings today, showing that results were substantially lower compared to the year-ago period, however, were at the upper end of expectations for…

Earnings: DivX Q1 Revs Up 24 Percent; Full-Year Outlook Raised - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 05 May 2008 01:15 PM PST

Digital encoding firm DivX (NSDQ: DIVX) announced Q1 revenue of $25 million, a 24 percent increase from $20.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Net income slid to $2.48 million ($.07…