Mediaworks is the largest press company in Hungary and the commercial core of the pro-government media bloc built during Viktor Orbán’s rule. Its 2025 accounts tell a stark story: revenue rose 4.5% to 59.7 billion forints (€149.9 million), the operating business was broadly stable, and yet the company recorded a net loss of 14.08 billion…
Magyar Narancs is one of the few independent, liberal voices to have survived Hungary’s long period of media concentration under Fidesz, and its 2025 accounts capture the last full financial year of that era. Core sales rose modestly, by 2.4% to 246.3 million forints (€619,000), but rising staff and financial costs pushed the company into…
Cuget Liber is one of Romania’s oldest surviving regional newspapers, and its 2025 results show what survival now costs. The Constanța-based publisher saw revenue fall 10.3% to 6.16 million lei (€1.22 million) and swung to its deepest loss in at least a decade: a net loss of 2.12 million lei (€420,836), more than double the…
MBC Group closed 2025 with a familiar headline tension: strong revenue growth alongside flat profit. Revenues rose 28.5% to SAR 5.39 billion ($1.44 billion), the fastest growth in the group’s recent history, yet net profit barely moved, edging up 2.7% to SAR 437.5 million ($116.7 million). The gap is explained by deliberate choices rather than…
Petit Press, a.s., the Bratislava-based Slovak publisher of the national daily SME, the regional Korzár, the English-language Slovak Spectator, the MY regional weekly network and the country’s most-read news website sme.sk, reported in its financial year ended 31 December 2025 net turnover of EUR 20.36 million and a profit after tax of EUR 809,537, down from EUR 952,723 the previous year….
The AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Swiss publishing group whose flagship is the 246-year-old newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, reported total operating revenue of CHF 236.4 million (approximately EUR 252m / US$285m) for the financial year ended 31 December 2025, down 5% from CHF 248.3 million in 2024. Adjusted operating profit was CHF 12.7…
MFE-MediaForEurope, the holding company that brings together Mediaset in Italy, Mediaset España and ProSiebenSat.1 in the German-speaking markets, reported consolidated net revenues of EUR 4,031.1 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2025, up 37% on EUR 2,949.5 million in 2024. Group net profit was EUR 300.7 million against EUR 137.9 million a year…
Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited, the Australian commercial television, publishing and streaming group that owns the Nine Network, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and the Stan streaming service, reported in its financial year ended 30 June 2025 revenue up 2% to AUD 2,676.5 million (approximately €1,528m / US$1,695m), and a statutory profit after tax…
Media Prima Berhad, Malaysia’s largest integrated media group, in its financial year ended 30 June 2025 had revenue up by 2% to RM857.0 million (approximately €170m / US$185m) from RM844.0 million a year earlier, and the group posted a profit after tax of RM20.7 million (approximately €4.1m / US$4.5m). The headline comparison is less straightforward…
MultiChoice, the South African owner of the DStv and GOtv pay-TV services, the Showmax streaming platform, and SuperSport, published its FY2025 results showing total revenue of ZAR 50.8 billion (about EUR 2555.6 million), down 9% on the year before. Profit from running the business fell from ZAR 7.9 billion to ZAR 4.0 billion, a 49%…