BT: €11.2 billion of revenue in first half of 2014 (-2%), Premier League audiences up 45%

The British audiovisual and telecom group BT achieved a turnover of almost £8.8bn (€11.2bn) at the end of the first half of fiscal year 2014 (from 01/04 to 30/09/2014), down 2% compared to the same period in 2013 (£8.94bn, or, at that time, €10.73bn), according to the group on 30/10/2014.

BT recorded an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of fixed assets) of about £2.79bn (€3.56bn) in the first half of 2014, up 2%, and reported an operating income of nearly £1.52bn (€1.94bn), up 11% and pre-tax profits of £1.11bn (€1.42bn), up 17% year on year.

BT Consumer, the division that includes the activities of BT TV, including the pay channel BT Sport, achieved a biannual turnover of £2.1bn (about €2.7bn, or 24.1% of the sales of the total group), up 9% compared to the first half of 2013 (£1.94bn, €2.33bn).

BT Group: results in the first half of 2014, in £m

• The net debt of the BT Group fell £1.01bn (€680m with the evolution of the parity…