News Corp posts 28% rise in profit
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RUPERT MURDOCHâS News Corp media empire has posted a 28 per cent rise in quarterly profit as strong results in newspapers, broadcast and cable television countered weaker performances in its film and Italian pay-TV divisions.
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Gannett Co. Inc.  posted higher fourth quarter profit on Friday, boosted by advertising demand at its newspapers and a rise in political ad sales at its TV stations.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp posted a  moderate rise in fiscal second-quarter profit on higher  advertising sales at its Fox News channel and the Fox  television network, offsetting a decline in its movie studio  business.
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SABMiller, the brewing company, said Thursday that its first-half profits rose 28 percent compared with the first half of the previous year.
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Time Warner Inc., the world's largest  media company, on Friday said its quarterly net profit rose by  76 percent, boosted by digital video, high-speed Internet and  higher advertising sales at its cable networks.
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Xerox Corp , the leading provider of digital printers and document management services, on Thursday posted a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit fueled by growing revenue from financing and supplies, sending its beleaguered stock up over 7 percent.
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US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent on continued strength from fixed-income
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The New York Times Company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $53 million as revenue dropped, but it continued to fare better than most of its peers across the troubled newspaper industry.
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Media conglomerate News Corp. said on  Wednesday its quarterly sales rose helped by higher "Borat" box  office sales and "X-Men" DVDs, but profit fell due to one-time  gain a year earlier.
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News Corp. (NWSa.N) on Tuesday  said its quarterly net profit rose 19 percent boosted by  advertising sales at the Fox News Channel, "Ice Age: The  Meltdown" film ticket sales and a gain from the sale of radio  stations.
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British defence group BAE Systems has reported a 28-percent rise in interim profit while warning that European planemaker Airbus might have to raise extra cash from shareholders.
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The publisher said second-quarter profit rose 25.4 percent, to $277 million, driven by good results at its Standard & Poorâs unit.
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The newspaper publisher reported profit of $365.7 million on the sale of several newspapers. Excluding the gain, earnings fell on weaker advertising.
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Media conglomerate News Corp. NWS.N  on Wednesday posted a higher quarterly profit, boosted by  strong DVD sales of the film "Day After Tomorrow" and  advertising sales at its cable networks.
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Time Warner Cable Inc , the second-largest U.S. cable operator, on Wednesday posted a 23 percent rise in fourth quarter profit from higher broadband and phone customers.
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Media company Gannett Co. Inc. GCI.N  on Wednesday said quarterly profit increased 6 percent, powered  by political advertising gains at its broadcast TV stations  that more than offset ad declines at its flagship USA Today  newspaper.
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Tribune Co.  reported a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on Thursday helped by an extra week in the quarter that boosted advertising revenue at the company's newspapers.