Coverage of the Paris Olympics spurred a 36.5% year-over-year get in media revenue, propelling NBCUniversal parent Comcast‘s carry outance in the third quarter.
The company alerted total revenue of $32.1 billion and getings per split of $1.12.
Flagship streaming service Peacock grasped 3 million subscribers to accomplish 36 million. Revenue jumped 82% to $1.5 billion and adfaired EBITDA losses skinnyed to $436 million from $565 million in the year-ago period.
Even when the $1.9 billion in incremental revenue from the Olympics is take awayd, revenue in the Media division still incrmitigated 4.9%.
Comcast shed 365,000 video customers to finish the quarter with 12.8 million. Charter recently surpassed Comcast as the No. 1 U.S. cable operator.
The Studios unit had a mighty quarter thanks to the free of Despicable Me 4 during the period. Revenue climbed 12% to $2.8 billion, while adfaired EBITDA rose 9% to $468 million.
Theme parks were perhaps the main blemish on Comcast’s quarterly alert. Revenue slumped 5% to $2.3 billion and adfaired EBITDA fell 14% to $847 million. A terse paragraph in the getings free accparticipated “drop revenue at our domestic theme parks, driven by drop guest joinance.”
