{"id":4212,"date":"2012-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2012\/05\/09\/profit-up-21-percent-at-disney\/"},"modified":"2012-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"profit-up-21-percent-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/profit-up-21-percent-at-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit Up 21 Percent at Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company posted a 21-percent increase in profit for its fiscal second quarter, with improved earnings at the ESPN and ABC networks and theme parks. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Quarterly net income was $1.14 billion, on revenues that were up 6 percent to $9.6 billion. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Media Networks revenues gained 9 percent for the quarter, reaching $4.7 billion, while segment operating income increased 13 percent to $1.7 billion. At the cable networks, operating income reached $1.5 billion, a gain of 11 percent, due to growth at ESPN as well as at the domestic Disney Channels. Operating income at Broadcasting grew 37 percent to $229 million, due to lower programming and production costs and higher ad revenues. The lower programming and production expenses were largely from the absence of The Oprah Winfrey Show. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Revenues were up 10 percent to $2.9 billion for Parks and Resorts, with segment operating income up 53 percent to $222 million. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Studio Entertainment, however, saw a decline in revenues of 12 percent to $1.2 billion. Segment operating income fell by $161 million to a loss of $84 million. The decline was due to the poor performance of <em>John Carter <\/em>at the box office, along with the related film cost write-down. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&ldquo;With 18 percent adjusted growth in earnings per share, we&rsquo;re pleased with our second quarter performance,&rdquo; said Robert A. Iger, Disney&#8217;s chairman and CEO. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re incredibly optimistic about our future, given the strength of our core brands, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, ESPN, and ABC, and our extraordinary ability to grow franchises across our businesses, such as <em>The Avengers<\/em>, which shattered domestic box office records with a $207.1 million opening weekend for a global performance of more than $702 million to date.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company posted a 21-percent increase in profit for its fiscal second quarter, with improved earnings at the ESPN and ABC networks and theme parks. Quarterly net income was $1.14 billion, on revenues that were up 6 percent to $9.6 billion. 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