Author: Global Media Finances Map

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    RCS MediaGroup

    RCS MediaGroup closed 2025 with revenue down 3.8% to €787.7 million, net profit at €54.8 million, an 11.6% decline from the prior year, and EBITDA at €142 million, broadly in line with 2024. The group’s net financial position improved to a positive €16 million after distributing €36.3 million in dividends, reflecting continued cash generation and…

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    ProSiebenSat.1 Media

    ProSiebenSat.1 closed 2025 in a state of profound transition, financially, strategically, and at the level of ownership. Revenues fell 6% to €3,675 million, adjusted EBITDA dropped 28% to €403 million, and the reported net loss widened to €181 million. While revenues remained within guidance and the leverage ratio stayed within the target corridor, earnings came…

  • Media Influence Matrix Financial Signals #2

    Financial Signals is a periodic digest of key findings from the Global Media Finances Map, the financial tracking component of the Media Influence Matrix. Each edition draws on newly published company reports to surface patterns, contradictions, and structural developments in the economics of journalism and media. Signal 1: Italy’s oldest newspapers are being kept alive…

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    Impresa

    Impresa closed 2025 with flat revenues but a clear, cost-driven recovery in underlying profitability, returning to net profit after a goodwill-distorted 2024 and marking its strongest reported operational and net result since 2021. The net profit is modest in absolute terms, €1.2 million on revenues of €181.8 million, but the context matters. In 2024, the…

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    Polaris Media

    Polaris Media closed 2025 with revenue essentially flat, NOK 3,651 million (€312 million), barely changed from NOK 3,650 million the year before, while adjusted EBITDA improved 6% to NOK 310 million (€26 million). The headline stability conceals two very different stories within the same group: the Norwegian media houses delivered strong underlying growth driven by…

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    TX Group

    TX Group closed 2025 with revenue down 7.3% and profitability broadly flat on an adjusted basis, a result that management presents as progress in what chairman Pietro Supino described as “once again highly challenging” conditions. The headline numbers look worse than the underlying reality, because 2024 free cash flow was boosted by a non-recurring distribution…

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    Atresmedia

    Atresmedia closed 2025 in a position of paradox. By audience and market share measures, it was a year of sustained leadership: a fourth consecutive year as Spain’s most-watched television group, record audience levels for Onda Cero radio, record streaming subscribers, and a total shareholder return of 26%. By the conventional financial measures that headline any…

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    Ekspress Grupp

    Ekspress Grupp had a steady 2025 by its own modest standards: revenue grew, digital subscriptions rose, and the company remained profitable. But the headline numbers mask a year of significant structural moves: a forced sale of a news portal, a leadership transition at the top, and an increasing reliance on non-journalism revenue streams to sustain…