{"id":88182,"date":"2009-11-06T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-increases-free-cash-flow-94-percent-in-strong-third-quarter-performance\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:08:22","slug":"directv-increases-free-cash-flow-94-percent-in-strong-third-quarter-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-increases-free-cash-flow-94-percent-in-strong-third-quarter-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Increases Free Cash Flow 94 Percent in Strong Third Quarter Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-06-09] <strong>The DirecTV Group<\/strong> reported a 94 percent increase in its free cash flow to $643 Million in its 2009 third quarter results, released Nov. 5.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV\u2019s total revenue, which includes <strong>DirecTV Latin Amerca<\/strong>, grew 10 percent to $5.47 billion in the quarter compared to 2008. In the United States, revenues increased 9 percent to $4.7 billion due to solid subscriber and ARPU growth. On its own, DirecTV Latin America saw a 16 percent increase in its revenues to $761 million over last year\u2019s results.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV Latin America and DirecTV in the United States gained 162,000 and 136,000 net subscriber additions, respectively, in the third quarter due to the addition of AT&amp;T as a marketing partner and increased demand for its HD and DVR services.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The pay-TV company\u2019s third quarter net income increased slightly to $366 million while diluted earnings per share increased 12 percent to $0.37 compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Next-Gen Users: Driving Video Transformation<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 1, 2009<br \/>\nThe Internet and wireless communications have had a major impact on the consumption of video content. TV operators no longer can think of just offering services via a single device at a set time and now have to think about whether to extend into\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thomson, LiveTV Partner to Deploy Airline IPTV Technology<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 26, 2009<br \/>\n[10-26-09] Thomson signed a long-term contract with LiveTV to develop of a live TV broadcast system for aircraft based on Thomson s IPTV-based satellite television distribution technology, the company announced Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Satellite Video and Hybrid Networks<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 1, 2009<br \/>\nThe DTH sector is doing well, however, the business has two potential long-term problems. These might be seen as bandwidth quantity and offering quality, and both can be addressed through the use of hybrid networks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-06-09] The DirecTV Group reported a 94 percent increase in its free cash flow to $643 Million in its 2009 third quarter results, released Nov. 5. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV\u2019s total revenue, which includes DirecTV Latin Amerca, grew 10 percent to $5.47 billion in the quarter compared to 2008. In the United States, revenues increased 9 percent [&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-88182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88182"}],"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=88182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}