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Subscription Television

Revenues, costs and operating profit/loss before tax for subscription TV broadcasters, 1996/97, 1999/00, 2002/03 and 2006/07

  1996/97 1999/00 2002/03 2006/07 Average annual
% change
2002/03 to 2006/07
Operating profit/loss
before tax ($m)		 -1,058.4 -675.8 -451.5 -163.0 n.a.%
Revenues ($m)
Subscription and membership fees 311.4 789.1 1,158.7 1,974.9 14.3%
Other 103.2 121.7 189.5 307.6 12.9%
Total revenues 414.6 910.9 1,348.2 2,282.6 14.1%
Costs ($m)
Labour costs1 n.a. 185.6 168.0 204.1 5.0%
Payments to channel providers 249.2 469.8 784.5 843.6 1.8%
Depreciation and amortisation 216.8 390.0 278.6 336.9 4.9%
Rent, leasing and hiring n.a. n.a. 34.3 36.3 1.4%
Other contract, subcontract and commission expenses n.a. n.a 61.9 252.8 42.2%
Total costs 1,473.1 1,615.7 1,837.3 2,449.5 7.5%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Television, Film and Video Production and Post-production Services, 2006/07 (cat. no. 8679.0); Television, Film and Video Production, 2002/03 (cat. no. 8679.0); Television Services, 1999/2000 (cat. no. 8559.0) and Radio and Television Services, 1996/97 (cat. no. 8680.0).

Notes:
Gross income from the sale of airtime is included in other revenues.
n.a. Not available
1. Includes two items for 2006/07 that were excluded from labour costs for previous years: salary sacrifice for employee benefits other than superannuation and employee share-based payments and stock options.

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