GMA-7 Hits P14.29B Revenues in 2010, Tops February NUTAM Ratings
Broadcast giant GMA Network, Inc. (GMA) remained steadfast as it capped financial performance in 2010 with revenues of P14.299 billion, half a billion higher than a year ago.
Net profits likewise registered a slight improvement at P2.821 billion, inching up 2009 profit level by P2.576 million or 0.1 percent. The Company still managed to post bottomline growth amid a slew of difficulties it encountered last year.
Consolidated airtime revenues from all platforms climbed four percent to P13.193 billion backed mostly by political advertisements during the election period, which totaled P2.054 billion as against the P636 million booked in 2009. Revenues from international and subsidiaries operations, meanwhile, grew three percent to P1.107 billion.
Flagship business unit Channel 7 chalked in the biggest revenues worth P12.213 billion, P334.06 million or three percent over the preceding year’s P11.879 billion. GMA Radio inked its success story with revenues worth P535.60 million, or a sales hike of 43 percent as against 2009.
GMA International brought in subscription and advertising revenues worth P925.37 million, eight percent up from 2009’s P855.18 million on strong sales in the US, Canada, Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.
Total operating expenses (OPEX) were up by P619.45 million or eight percent year-on-year to P8.461 billion. Production costs went up by eight percent or P338.53 million on account of the non-recurring election coverage as well as additional in-house produced programs in the weekday late afternoon grid and the weekend flagship entertainment variety program Party Pilipinas. The weekday primetime programs also had higher programming costs relative to their counterparts from a year ago.
General and administrative expenses (GAEX) were kept at a single-digit growth of eight percent to P3.733 billion. More than one third of the hike in GAEX was due to the spike in advertising and promotions to support the blitz in the regions and to hype the Company’s 60th anniversary.
The year finished with earnings before income, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) worth P4.711 billion, four percent behind 2009’s P4.889 billion. But the drop in non-cash expenses drove the net income to settle at P2.821 billion.
The Company paid out cash dividends to its shareholders amounting to P1.215 billion in December. It was the second payout of dividends for 2010–the first of which amounted to P2.187 billion disbursed in May. The Company need not rely on foreign loans or external funds to run its operations – it has enough reserves and remains debt-free to-date.
GMA Chairman and CEO Atty. Felipe L. Gozon, coming from a roller-coaster-like-ride in 2010, looks forward to a much more profitable year ahead with 58 percent of revenue targets already signed at the closing of last year.
Due to the proactive stance of its marketing arm, GMA Marketing and Productions, Incorporated (GMPI) headed by President and COO Lizelle G. Maralag, the Company already booked more than P7 billion worth of sales for 2011 as of December 2010.
GMA proved it can withstand the tests of times. I am confident the hard days are over and we can look forward to better times ahead. The entire organization – with footprints in regional, national, and international markets – is upbeat to exceed the records made in 2010 this 2011,” said Gozon.
GMA’s international channels – GMA Pinoy TV (GPTV) and GMA Life TV (GLTV) – both recorded double-digit growth in subscriptions by end fourth quarter 2010. GPTV’s subscribers were over 273,000 as of the mentioned period, up 16 percent year-on-year. Of this number, 125,000 are also subscribers of GLTV, increasing subscription rate by 17 percent from 2009.
On the other hand, GMA’s syndication sales and acquisition arm, GMA Worldwide, Incorporated (GWI), sold a total of US$687,629 worth of programs in 2010 to countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
On television, GMA surpassed ABS-CBN in national television ratings, based on the most recent data of Nielsen TV Audience Measurement – the broadcast industry’s more trusted ratings service provider.
According to the full February data [February 27 to 28 based on overnight ratings], GMA went further by 2.2 points in household audience shares in National Urban Television Audience Measurement [NUTAM] with 34.2 points versus ABS-CBN’s 32 points. GMA was also ahead of TV5 even if the latter’s 14.9 is doubled.
In Urban Luzon, which made up 77 percent of total television households nationwide, GMA ranked ahead of competition by huge margins. It finished its February programming with 37.9 household share points, 12.9 points away from ABS’ 27 points; and 21.2 points higher than TV5’s 16.7.
In viewer-rich Mega Manila, which has expanded coverage to include Batangas and Laguna since January 2011 and now comprise 58 percent of total television households nationwide, GMA had 39.4 share points, or a 14.3-point margin over ABS’ 25.1 points; and 22.1 points higher than TV5’s 17.3.
The Nielsen TV Audience Measurement used by GMA is used by 21 companies including two other local TV networks, namely, TV5 and Solar Entertainment; Faulkner Media; CBN Asia; 13 advertising agencies and three regional clients. On the other hand, ABS-CBN is the only local network reportedly subscribing to Kantar Media, formerly known as TNS.
GMA Engineering Group, meanwhile, administered the renovation of Studio 5 at the GMA Network Center to suit the studio requirements of GMA News TV (GNTV). GNTV is the first and only free-to-air news and public affairs channel on VHF (Very High Frequency). Because it is on free TV, viewers do not need to pay a cable service provider to get the latest news and information.
The Group also provides the technical backend in the Company’s on-air operations. Just recently, it began the site preparations to run the media asset management system (MAMS) – by far the most sophisticated filing system in local broadcast bought at US$4 million. GMA Engineering likewise reinforces the Network’s regional presence thru constant improvement of the signals of its 21 television stations in Luzon, 12 in Visayas, and 13 in Mindanao.
In the 2010 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), GMA Films with Imus Productions produced the top grosser Si Agimat at Si Enteng with box office receipts of about P175 million.
wawa nman gma, kala siguro mataas na to, barya lang to sa abs..
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mag triple ba? , barya barya lang yan ng abs..
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hay nako sa mga tanga at walang kaalam alam na ebak fans, by second quarter, magtataas na ng ad rate ng GMA…. which is comparable sa Ebak station…. Hintay lang kayo at magtritriple na ang net income ng GMA!
Yahoooooooooooooo!
BASTA, MABUHAY TAYO MGA KAPUSO!! WALA PANG AMAYA NG LAGAY NA YAN. BONGGANG BONGGA ANG KAPUSO!!
MAY NALALAMAN PA KAYONG KAPAMILYA GOLD. KALAWANG NAMAN YUN FOR SURE DAHIL FLOP YUN KUNG ANU MAN YUN.
MGA CHEAP!
HAPPY YIPEE BUNGI….. MGA TAGA DOS BUNGI….
ANG PAPANGIT NILA PATI SI CHAROT SANTOS>>>> bwahahaha
EPAL KAPAMILYA
@593,
mura lang kaya kuha ng gma sa EB.. 😎
KBP,merong rules on max ads sa isang network per commercial break. wawa naman gma tinanggal, kasi humuhirit pa ng dagdag ads,
bakit kaya humhirit? siguro mura lang yung rate per ads. wawa naman tlga si gozon, naghihingalo..
search niyo sa google, bakit tinanggal ng KBP ang gma..
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ang EBS LBM handang magbayad ng malaki sa EAT BULAGA para lang lumipat pero sorry na lang kayo kase tapos na contract signing ng EB at GMA for three years.
Sorry dos dausdos, maytiyaga na lang kayo sa kabaret na hapee yipee bungi na show niyo,… bwahahahaha
mga kapamilyaks, mga pampam sa dami ng utang….
Basta GMA panalo…. yehey….
Mga bitter pangit!
GIGIL NA GIGIL ANG ILANG MGA HWES SA ABSCBN DAHIL MAS PINANINIWALAAN PA NG MGA PILIPINO ANG ABSCBN KESA SA KANILA.
Cheating & Data Tampering, Desperate Publicity, Mind Conditioning, Rating Manipulations, etc.
(w/ AGB & PEP).
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Early Signing-Off, Cost Cutting, Debt Increase & Financial Crisis.
Words that best describes gma.
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Boboserye, Copyserye, Flopserye, Peryaserye, Pornoserye, O.A.serye, T.H.serye, etc.
Tatak-gma tlga.
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KORAK YUNG NAGSABING “ANG ABSCBN LANG ANG NETWORK NA MAY PRINSIPIO, DI ITO GAGAWA NG ANUMANG BAGAY PARA LANG PABORAN SA KORTE” GIGIL NA GIGIL ANG ILANG MGA HWES SA ABSCBN DAHIL MAS PINANINIWALAAN PA NG MGA PILIPINO ANG ABSCBN KESA SA KANILA.
in accounting
ASSETS= LIABILITIES+EQUITY
Secret Weapons ng gma.
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Weakness tlga ng gma ang lumaban ng patas.
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Konting Delicadeza naman gozon.
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Dahil sa PERA, nawala tuloy prinsipiyo.
Pera-Pera lang po mga kapuso.
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“Napakahirap na ng buhay ngayon, kaya for a movie to make over P135 million in 3 days is a miracle. Divine intervention ito”.
-lily monteverde (baliw).
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anong drama mo naive-naivan? kahapon ka ba ipinanganak? FYI-lantaran ang mga anomalya sa sistema ng hustisya ng pilipinas.boba!
Patawa itong mga Kapupu, ang papangit ng mga teledramas nga ninyo. So Baduy and Cheap. Mga endorsers puros Kapamilya stars kasi me hatak sa buyers ULOL.
Go go go Kapuso! Nagtatago na ang mga kapams na talunan at Bitter…
Its time to rejoice mga kapuso because we are number 1 NATIONWIDE!
YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
barya lang yan kung ikukumpara sa kinita ng abscbn.
B0B0. papaboran ba ng korte kung mali? kinukwestyon mo na ang korte suprema. MANGMANG
NAIINTINDIHAN KO ANG SENTIMIENTO NG ISANG KAPUSONG TALUNAN NA TULAD MO.AKO MAN ANG MALAGAY SA SITWASYON MO, SASABIHIN KO RIN YAN.HEHEHE.CONDOLENCE.KASI NUMBER 3 NA LANG KAYO NGAYON.NAUNGUSAN NA KAYO NG TV5.
galit ang mga hwes sa abscbn dahil sa ang abscbn lang talaga ang nag-iisang istasyon na may prinsipio, tunay na panig sa katotohanan at panig sa bayan.sa abscbn-talo kung talo pero never itong gagawa ng anumang bagay para lang paboran sila sa korte.
aii nako ayaw pa ksi aminin kakapiranggot lang supporters ng abs!!!!
SC dismisses ABS-CBN case vs Mel and Jay
wawa talaga kapampam. wala ng pinanalong kaso.
Pampam kasi.
BOBO talaga mga yan. walang mga pinag-aralan. salot sa lipunan.
BOBO TALAGA NG MGA EPALMILYUCKS
may malaking pagbabagong magaganap. at nga pala,panu kame maniniwala sa agb wala naman pinapakitang daily NUTAM figures? bat tinatago? aber?
confirmed na confirmed na rin ang muling pagbabalik ng encantadia.. good thing na mapapaltan for sure ang gaganap kay alena. Lubog na talaga kayo kapampam.
wow. haha!!malaki pala kita ah?? eh, bakit ng-resign ang director ng Party Pilipinas, dbah dahil sa maliit lang ang sweldo.. kakahiya ang GMA!
@kapamilyakapuso it’s clear you don’t know what you’re talking about. mangmang.
kahit anong depensa ng dos,kahit anong explanation ninyo,alinaw na MALAKI ANG UTANG NG DOS.kaya nga number television sa PANGUNGUTANG e.toink!!!
ang GMA-7 ay hindi nagyayabng,inilalabas lang ang totoo.ung isang nagcomment jan na ipinagmayabang ang kinita ng gma7 sa 3rd quarter ng nakalipas na taon, balikan mo muna ung laman ng press release bago ka magcomment.in fact,inamin nga ng gma-7 na medyo bumaba ang kanilang kita ,so paano sila nagyabang?jan nga ako bilib sa gma-7 dahil very honest sila.noong natatalo sila sa rating sa mega manila ay inamin din nila hindi kagaya ninyo na napakaliwanag na nga na TALO kayo,ipinagpipilitan pa rin na panalo.ginagawa niyong bobo ang mga tao.
ABS-CBN-NUMBER 1 SA PANGUNGUTANG,THE CRIMINAL NETWORK!!!
This is not surprising. GMA is indeed the leading TV station in the country.
KAPUSO, ANU MANG KULAY NG BUHAY!!
KAPUSO, NO. 1!! Magiisang dekada na tayong nangunguna.
CONGRATS, MGA KAPUSO!!
yuck no.1 daw ang kapuso! di na nahiya!
seryoso?! may naniniwala sa TNS?! LOL wag na kasi pagpilitan na number one ang dos. Dos Laos na eh. Wagi tayo mga Kapuso!! Nakkapangilabot na nakuha natin ang top spot!!!! sobrang nakakaproud!!
ambot sa lakaw puro raman data sa agb intawon dapat pakita pud data sa TNS para patas ang laban.
Ang SAYA!!! GMA NO. 1!!!!! Walang tatalo. Kahit magsanib pa kayo sa mga kapatid, wa epek yun!! KAPUSO NO. 1!!! the Best.
kmusta nman primetime nyo mga kapuso? namamayagpag? lol.
abs-cbn goes digital? abangan sa tv patrol on march 16!
mabuhay ang mga kapuso!!! ito na ang sinasabi kong pamamayagpag natin!!
hai naku,,kahit anu gawin nyu GMA hndi kami naniniwala sa inyu dahil ABS pa rin ang still no.1
FYI d pa nagpapakita ang abs kung ilan nga ba kita nila n0ng 2010..Ganun naman talaga ang gma parating uunahan ang abs sa pagreleased para sabhing malaki ang kita,.Dd you remember sa 3rd quarter pa lang unang nagreleased tas sabi nila malaki daw kta.After few days naglabas dn ang abs at dun nakta ang ka22hanan na malaki parin ang kita ng abs kesa gma..And w8 nyo mga kapusy kung magpapalabas na ang abs baka mangiyak ngiyak kayo sa kakahiyan.:p
kahit ano pang paninira ang gawin ng abs-cbn fans,wala ding mangyayari.ang mga advertisers ay sa AGB nakasubscribe samantalang sa TNS ay abs-cbn LANGGG…
ngayon, alin sa dalawang survey firm ang mas pinaniniwalaan?ang maraming subscriber o ung nag-iisang subscriber lamang?
ito ang dahilan kung bakit todo ang paninira ng mga kapams sa gma-7 ngunit ang resulta waa pa ring naniniwala sa kanila lalo na ngayon,sobrang NEGA ang dos.TOINK!!!!!
ANG masaklap pa,mismong TNS nila ,hindi na rin sila naniniwala kasi ayaw nilang tanggapin na talo sila samantalang napakaliwanag naman sa tns survey nila na talo ang dos.
ABS-CBN-NUMBER 1 SA PANGUNGUTANG ,CRIMINAL NETWORK PA!!
ito namang estasyon ng walang puso puro press release lang, para maka akit ng ads…haizzt wawa naman…magsara na kau, at ung bakanteng lote dyan sa kamuning na iiwan nyo taniman ng kamote at kangkong ni gozon at ni galvante
READ THIS:
GMA 7 – 2.821 BILLION DEBT FREE
VS.
ABS CBN – 3 BILLION with more than 10 BILLION LOANS. So negative pa rin ang labas ng ABS.
GMA 7 panalo!!!