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NEW STRAITS TIMES (NST, +23.8% YoY to RM626m). Based on our channel check, the
strong YoY jump in these two English newspapers was partially led by different gross adex
computation that adopted by Nielsen in the year 2014 vs. a year ago. On top of that, we
also believe that the widening discount rate was another factor that led for a robust YoY
growth. Based on our back-of-the-envelope calculations, STARs discounted rate (net
advertising revenue vs. Nielsen Medias gross adex) widened to 47.4% in 1QCY14 vs.
28.1% a year ago. Similarly, MEDIAs print division discounted rate has also expanded to
76.3% in 1QCY14 in contrast to 64.7% in the same period last year. Meanwhile, MEDIAC
also moved into a similar trend, albeit at a slower pace and recorded 29.4% discounted
rate in 1QCY14 as compared to 27.4% a year ago. Despite a positive YoY growth at the
gross adex level, the higher discounted rates have led STAR; MEDIA; and MEDIACs
newspaper net advertising revenue lowered by -11.4% (to RM137m); -14.0% (to
RM84.5m) and -7.2% (to RM153m) in 1QCY14, respectively,
The YTD Pay TV gross adex continued to record a double-digit growth of 25.0%
YoY to RM2.0b at the expense of FTA TV, which merely added only 6.8% YoY. On a MoM
basis, the Pay TV adex climbed by 11.2% while FTA TV adex added by 8.9% due to the
lower base effect in April. MEDIAs gross TV adex, meanwhile, climbed by 5.3% YoY (or
10.2% MoM) to RM1.1b in YTD-May, thanks to the higher performance across its in-house
channels namely 8TV (+9.0% YoY to RM224m); TV3 (+2.3% YoY to RM497m); NTV7
(+0.3% YoY to RM178m) and TV9 (+13.9% YoY to RM204m). On the Pay TV front, Astro
PRIMA, Astro RIA and Astro Wah Lai Toi channels continued to rank as the top three
highest adex generators as they contributed an aggregate RM668m in gross adex or 33%
of the total YTD Pay TV gross adex of RM2.0b. On market shares, the Pay TV segment
improved by 340 bps YoY to 37.0% at the expense of the FTA TV segment.