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CRTC releases 2014 financial results for Canadian local television stations

Quick facts

  • Private local television stations saw their revenues drop by 7.2%, from $1.94 billion in 2013 to $1.8 billion in 2014. Expenses went from $1.85 billion in 2013 to $1.84 billion in 2014, a slight decrease of 0.4%. Profits before interest and taxes (PBIT) declined from -$2.3 million to -$138.7 million, and the PBIT margin decreased from -0.1% to -7.7%.
  • Investments by private local television stations in Canadian-made programs increased by 2.3%, from $605.4 million in 2013 to $619.3 million in 2014.
  • Private local television stations invested $60.4 million for drama series, $5.3 million for feature films, $84.7 million for general interest programs, $361.1 million for news programs, $6.3 million for long-form documentaries, $29.3 million for other information programs, $22.3 million for music and variety shows, $1.1 million for sports programming, $19 million for game shows, $25.5 million for reality TV shows, $3.7 million for awards shows and $0.5 million for other programs.
  • As part of these investments, local television stations paid $138.6 million to Canadian independent producers.
  • Revenues from the sale of local advertising declined from $351.2 million in 2013 to $333.6 million in 2014, a 5% decrease. Private local television stations also experienced a 7.8% decline in national advertising revenues, from $1.28 billion in 2013 to $1.18 billion in 2014.
  • In 2014, CBC/SRC reported advertising revenues of $474.6 million, which represented a 43.3% increase from the $331.1 million generated the previous year.
  • CBC/SRC's programming expenditures totalled $810.8 million, 97% of which was spent on Canadian programs.
Full Press Release

Conventional Television – Statistical and Financial Summaries 2010-2014

Last year's discussion: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=207138
 
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CRTC releases 2014 financial results for Canadian cable and satellite companies

Quick facts: Cable and IPTV companies
  • In 2014, cable and IPTV companies reported revenues of $6.5 billion from their programming services. This total represents an increase of 3% from $6.3 billion in 2013.
  • Operating expenses for these companies increased by 7.6% from $5.1 billion to $5.5 billion.
  • The number of Canadian households that subscribed to a cable or IPTV company increased by 0.2% from 8.81 million to 8.83 million.
  • IPTV continues to register significant growth, with subscribers increasing 29% and revenues up 39% in 2014.
  • Cable companies saw declines in both subscriptions and revenues of 5.2% and 3.2% respectively.
  • In 2014, the total number of terrestrial television distribution company employees rose by 1.3% from 26,852 to 27,188 people. Total employee earnings rose by 5.6% from $2.2 billion to $2.3 billion.
  • In 2014, cable and IPTV companies spent $2.5 billion on affiliation payments for pay and specialty services. This total represents a 7.8% increase compared to the $2.3 billion spent in 2013.
Quick facts: Satellite companies
  • Satellite companies' revenues decreased by 2.4% from $2.5 billion in 2013 to $2.4 billion in 2014.
  • Operating expenses for these companies were essentially unchanged at $1.6 billion.
  • The number of Canadian households that subscribed to a satellite company's television service decreased by 4.9% from 2.7 million to 2.6 million.
  • Satellite companies employed 1,840 people in 2014, down from 1,973 in 2013. These companies spent $162 million on salaries in 2014, down from $183 million the previous year.
  • Satellite companies saw affiliation payments increase by 1.9% from $794 million in 2013 to $809 million in 2014.
Full Press Release
Financial Summaries for Broadcasting Sector
 
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Subscriber Analysis

Cable & IPTV |2010 |2011 |2012 |2013 |2014
Direct Subscribers |7,726,836 |7,940,449 |8,185,003 |8,283,357 |8,270,863
Indirect Subscribers |567,127 |579,112 |518,180 |531,844 |562,589
Subtotal |8,293,963 |8,519,561 |8,703,183 |8,815,201 |8,833,452
Satellite |2,862,076 |2,877,423 |2,825,677 |2,691,204 |2,558,958
Total |11,156,039 |11,396,984 |11,528,860 |11,506,405 |11,392,410
Change | |240,945 |131,876 |-22,455 |-113,995

The number of subscribers that pay for TV declined by almost exactly 1% from August, 2013 to August, 2014.
 
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Found this definition in an old (1997) Stats Canada document, so I hope it is still correct.

Subscribers, direct. Corresponds to the number of single dwellings billed directly by the cable system operator. Single dwellings would include single houses, each half of a semi-detached (or double) house and each section of a row or terrace. Each single dwelling is served by one main outlet; additional outlets are not counted.

Subscribers, indirect. Corresponds to the number of subscribers billed under contract with a third party such as a landlord, hotel or motel operator. Each indirect subscriber is served by one main outlet; additional outlets are not counted.
 
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Quick facts
  • In 2014, 230 Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view and video-on-demand television services generated revenues of $4.2 billion, a 3.1% increase over the $4.1 billion in revenues from the previous year.
  • The increased revenues in 2014 are largely attributable to an increase in subscription revenues ($160.3 million or 5.9%), which more than compensated for the 4.2% drop in national advertising revenues.
  • Though revenues continued increasing in 2014, expenditures increased faster, rising from $2.9 billion in 2013 to $3.1 billion in 2014. As a result, profits before interest and taxes (PBIT) dropped from $1.1 billion to approximately $1 billion, and the PBIT margin from 26.5% to 23.7%.
  • Bilingual and English-language services yielded a total of $3.5 billion, and French-language services produced revenues of $678.4 million.
  • On an individual basis, sports services (such as TSN, Sportsnet and RDS) were among the specialty services with the highest increase in revenues, which increased by $124 million (13.6%).
  • Pay and video-on-demand services reported revenue decreases of 2.1% (or 9.4 million) and 1.3 % (or $3.2 million) respectively in 2014.
  • Canadian programming expenditures reached $1.5 billion in 2014, an increase of 12.6% compared to 2013. Expenditures in the “sports” programming category showed the largest increase: $132 million.
  • Of those investments, $432 million went to independent Canadian producers, $376 million of which came from specialty television services.
  • Expenditures related to foreign programming increased from $528 million in 2013 to $574 million in 2014, $389 million of which came from specialty services.

Full News Release: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=983729

Specialty, pay, pay-per-view and video-on-demand television services – Statistical and financial summaries for 2010-2014
Individual specialty, pay, pay-per view and video-on-demand television services
 
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