Chrysalis Group plc
Chrysalis: H1 results
Chrysalis Radio’s performance in the half year was fairly typical for the industry with revenues down 4.6% but the second half has started very well with revenues up 10%. A significant profit recovery looks likely.
The smaller Chrysalis Music (27% of EBITA) did not produce any revenue growth over the half year, but its margins did […]
Rajar radio market shares
Once again Rajar numbers show the BBC taking audience share from commercial radio, increasing its share of total listening hours to 55.4%: an increase of 0.3% over the previous quarter and 1.2% over the same quarter last year.
Several of GCap Media’s most important stations performed badly. Both Classic FM and Capital Radio have lost […]
Chrysalis: update
Chrysalis has changed greatly over the last year. The disposal of loss making Chrysalis books was immediately earnings enhancing but this was offset by deterioration in both the other businesses.
Organic EBITDA in the continuing businesses fell 42% in FY2005 (year to august 2005). The acquisition of Century FM added little to this as it was […]
Rajar radio market share numbers
The BBC continues to gain share from commercial radio with its 55.1% share in the last quarter of 2005 up half a percentage point on the previous quarter and 1.1 percentage points over an year.
This is likely to bring more protests from commercial radio stations about “unfair” competition. However any political effect this has is […]
Radio audience share numbers
Total radio listening is up 0.37% on the previous quarter and 0.41% on the third quarter of last year. However the number remains within its normal range of variation and we do not see too much evidence of a trend in this. However do do continue to believe that the long term outlook for total […]
Radio audience share
Total radio listening shows no clear trend with total listening hours recovering most of the ground lost earlier in the year to be down just 0.4% over the same quarter last year. The BBC’s share of listening continues to creep upwards from 53.1% to 54.2% in an year. This clearly means some loss to commercial […]
Chrysalis
Chrysalis Radio continued to perform well in revenues terms in the 2004 financial year with revenues up 21% on 2003 to £67.7m and EBITDA up 48% to £14m, however not only has there been a decline in audience in 2004, but is continued into the first quarter of the current financial year with listening […]
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