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21/02/18
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Originally posted by bensterz
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I don't think it has ever been disclosed anywhere. Seems to be a recent phenomenon that SXL is publishing how much revenue it hands over under affiliation agreements to Nine and SWM. I'd say next deal between PRT and SWM will be for 50%.
The impairment charge for these accounts is interesting. In FY17 AR (p34) management says a 0.5% CAGR decline in revenues would reduce the value-in-use value of the broadcast licences by $6.2m. The 1H18 impairment charge of $31m against the broadcast licence is equivalent to a CAGR reduction in revenue of 2.5pp (percentage points). If management's forecast of revenue declines has increased by 1pp in 1H18 impairment testing, everything else but programming fees has utilised the same assumptions as FY17, then affiliation fee assumptions have increased by ~1.5pp of revenue in the DCF model.
Problem with the current non-disclosure of the existing affiliation fee arrangement is you can't work out if the present impairment charge is to be the last one for a while or if another impairment charge will be required in the near future (especially as FY19 won't have the advertising benefits from Olympics/Commonwealth Games).
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Jimmy_C in one of his earlier posts made an estimate of approx 40% of revenue was paid out by PRT in affiliation agreements.
I'd say that this is about right.
Looking at the FY 17 statement and a rough calculation:
Revenue: 240,059
Operating Exp. 50,047 (Broadcast and Admin)
Wages and Ben. 39,058
Borrowing costs 2,328
Tax paid 13,661
Invest. Activities 2,428
Dividends 12,456
Debt repaid 28,619
etc.... Leaves a tad over 90m unaccounted for so would assume that this is what gets paid to its affiliates, ie. approx 40% of revenue. I guess that we also need to assume that not all revenue is associated with PRTs affiliates as some revenue is on the back of their own content production (local news etc) so 40% could be at the lower range and may in fact be slightly higher.