Vivendi Revenue Falls in Wake of NBC Deal
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Vivendi Universal SA, the French media and telecommunications group, said Tuesday its revenue fell 20 percent in the third quarter largely because of the sale of its entertainment assets to General Electric Co.'s NBC division.
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CANNES, France  - Vivendi Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy has no plans to spin off the music unit Universal and he said on Saturday he believed the gloom surrounding the industry had been over done.
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French media and telecoms group Vivendi   posted on Wednesday an 18 percent rise in adjusted  full-year net profit in line with forecasts, pulled by Maroc  Telecom and its games, French mobile and pay-TV units.
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WPP Group (WPPGY:Nasdaq ADR - news - research) sank 3% after the British ad agency agreed to buy New York&#39;s Grey Global (GREY:Nasdaq - news - research) for about $1.
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Annual profits at broadcaster ITV fall  as a result of a continuing decline in advertising revenues.
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Shares of Vivendi Universal, the owner of Universal Music Group, and Britain&#39;s EMI Group each traded down over 2 percent Friday amid a report that New York Attorney General
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Vivendi Universal posted a first-half net loss Tuesday that almost doubled to 1.86 billion, as it was hit by currency translation losses linked to its entertainment deal with NBC.
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Vivendi Universal SA, owner of the world&#39;s largest music company, plans to sell a 15 percent stake in Veolia Environnement SA to cut debt and focus on media and mobile-phone businesses.
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French media giant Vivendi Universal reported a second quarter net loss of 1.852 billion euros (2.3 billion dollars), six times larger than the 313-million-euro shortfall in the same period last year.
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PARIS : French media giant Vivendi Universal reported a surge in its net loss so far this year but forecast a sharp turnaround in its finances for all of 2004.
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Shares in car rental group Avis Europe drop 12% after it reports a slide in profits and warns that earnings will remain under pressure.
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VIVENDI Universal, the French media and telecommunications company, said its net loss grew to Â£1.26 billion in the second quarter.
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Vivendi condemned as &quot;indecent&quot; the  contract terms between its Universal Music Group (UMG) unit and  Apple Inc, the computer maker whose iTunes online store  dominates the digital music market.
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The New York Times Co. said November advertising revenue declined 3.8 percent. Total company revenue, excluding TV stations up for sale, declined 1.7 percent to $278.5 million, the publisher said. The drop reflects the industry's continued loss of advertisers to other media. Ad sales at the New England Media Group, led by The Boston Globe, slid 11 percent to $36 ...
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French media and telecommunications giant Vivendi Universal reported that third quarter sales fell to 4.7 billion euros (6.1 billion dollars) from 5.9 billion a year earlier but were nonetheless ahead of experts' expectations.
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Vivendi Universal posted a near doubling  in its first-half net loss to 1.86 billion euros ($2.28  billion) on Tuesday, hit by currency translation losses linked  to its entertainment deal with NBC, but cellphone unit SFR  boosted profits at the operating level.
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NEW YORK The broadcast networks&#39; upfront revenue take could decline this year to about $8.5 billion from last year&#39;s $8.75 billion for a number of reasons.