Only the local press and Disney save Vocento

Vocento closes 2009 with a net profit for 9,1 million euros, 73,6 % less than the previous year. The fall of the publicity of 21,9 % and the costs of 111,4 millions for his restructuring ballast the benefits, as in 2008. The group reduces his costs 13,5 % headed by the redeployment of labor of ABC.
Only the regional newspapers, with operating profits of 18,9 millions, the supplements (2,7 mill). and the national TDT (2,78 mill). they support the benefits.
The income was 751 million euros, with publicity and sale of even copies. More than 274,6 millions (76 millions less than in 2008) for publicity and 274,2 millions of sale of copies, one more 1,6 %.
The press reduces 12 % his income (512,9 millions) with losses of development of 49,1 millions in ABC opposite to 21,3 millions in 2008. The free one What loses 4,9 millions in spite of the progress of his negative results of 12,1 million the previous year.
The regional press descends less in income, 316,3 millions (-12,5 %), but his profit falls down 38,4 % up to 28,9 millions opposite to 46,9 in 2008 or the 104,7 of 2007.
The income for publicity has diminished below the average of the market, 23,3 % opposite to 26,5 % of the rest of the local press.
The efforts to support the newspapers with contents, new design and promotions crash against the results of this exercise.
ABC improves his income for sale of copies with an increase of 12 % in ABC thanks to an increase of 2 % in the diffusion: 256.650 copies.
The regional press loses 5,3 % of diffusion (453.928 copies) and his income for sale falls down 0,7 %.
The investment in his digital means, the buy of 33,3 % of 11870.com and the abandonment of The Digital Back room, harm the Internet accounts to register a few losses of development of 7,9 millions opposite to those of a million of 2008 or the benefits of 4,8 million one year earlier.
The Internet means suffer the fall of the classified ones (11,7 million,-14,5 %), especially of employment. The B2B descends with the cost of 3,5 millions for the exit of The Digital Back room.
The digital publicity increases 21 % with a few income of 18,6 millions in the digital editions (+18,9 %) of the newspapers and 3,2 % in the vertical channels in spite of the incorporation of 11870.com (800.000 only users).
The innovations and progress in the digital newspapers produce a few losses of 3,6 million, the second year of fall after the benefits of 1,55 millions in 2007. Classified and vertical they continue also in losses.
Vocento places himself like the first group of information in Internet with 10,2 million only users, according to the information of the panel of Nielsen, over Publishing Unit with 9,9 millions and of Prisacom with 9,7 million users.
In the television, Channel Disney improves the accounts of a sector with losses for four million euros in the autonomic and local TDT despite a strong reduction of costs or a fall in the business of the production of 24,4 %.
Point Removed progress 3 % his hearing (530.000 listeners) and it limits to the half his losses (6,2 millions) thanks to the cost reduction.
The audio-visual area loses 12,1 million euros despite the benefits of 2,78 millions of the national TDT: Disney and Intereconomy.