FY2025 Private Broadcasters’ Financial Results
Overview
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications compiled and published the FY2025 financial results of private broadcasters. Terrestrial core broadcasters, excluding community broadcasters, increased both revenue and operating profit. Community broadcasters increased revenue but saw operating profit decline. Satellite broadcasters and cable television broadcasters each recorded declines in both operating revenue and operating profit for their respective businesses.
Key points
- Terrestrial core broadcasters, excluding community broadcasters, increased both revenue and operating profit.
- Satellite broadcasters saw declines in both operating revenue and operating profit for satellite broadcasting.
- Cable television broadcasters saw declines in both operating revenue and operating profit for cable television.
Overview
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications compiled and published the FY2025 financial results of private broadcasters. The overview of the results is provided, with details in the attached document.
Details
Terrestrial core broadcasters, excluding community broadcasters, recorded a year-over-year revenue increase of 1.1% and an operating profit increase of 11.4%. Community broadcasters increased revenue by 2.8%, while operating profit declined. For broadcasters whose fiscal year-end had not yet arrived, the compilation uses the most recent financial results available.
Satellite broadcasters, comprising satellite core broadcasters and satellite general broadcasters, recorded year-over-year declines of 1.6% in operating revenue and 8.7% in operating profit for satellite broadcasting.
Cable television broadcasters recorded year-over-year declines of 0.7% in operating revenue and 4.0% in operating profit for cable television. The aggregation covers 275 companies that could be included in the tally, limited to for-profit registered general broadcasters that provide their own programming using wired telecommunications facilities.