{"id":86996,"date":"2010-05-07T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-earnings-more-than-double-in-first-three-months-of-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T23:33:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:33:18","slug":"directv-earnings-more-than-double-in-first-three-months-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-earnings-more-than-double-in-first-three-months-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Earnings More than Double in First Three Months of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-07-10] <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> posted revenue gains of 14 percent in the first quarter of 2010 to $5.6 billion, the company announced May 6. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First quarter earnings more than doubled to $558 million in the same period. In the first three months of 2009, DirecTV earned $201 million on revenues of $4.9 billion. \tDirecTV credited the revenue gains to strong subscriber and ARPU growth as well as $57 million of revenue mostly related to DirecTV Sports Networks, which was acquired as part of the transaction with <strong>Liberty Media Corp.<\/strong> in November. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV U.S. revenue grew from $4.3 billion in 2009 to $4.8 billion in 2010, while average revenue per subscriber (ARPU) was $85.47 in the first three months of 2010, compared to $80.35 in the same period in 2009. Subscriber acquisition costs at DirecTV U.S. fell due to a decline in gross subscriber additions, though the total subscriber base now stands at 18.7 million, compared to 18.1 million at the close of March 2009. \t<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Revenues for DirecTV Latin America increased 30 percent to $779 million, mainly due to strong subscriber growth and a 9.5 percent increase in ARPU. First quarter net additions increased 49 percent to 221,000 subscribers, primarily due to strong growth in Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-07-10] DirecTV posted revenue gains of 14 percent in the first quarter of 2010 to $5.6 billion, the company announced May 6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First quarter earnings more than doubled to $558 million in the same period. In the first three months of 2009, DirecTV earned $201 million on revenues of $4.9 billion. DirecTV credited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}