NETWORK MEDIA GROUP ANNOUNCES 2025 YEAR-END RESULTS
Network President
Key metrics for Network's three months ended Q4 2025 include the following highlights:
- Revenues of
$1,322,209 (2024 –$3,259,771 ); - Net loss of
$970,289 –$0.05 per share (2024 net income of$219,286 –$0.01 per share); - Adjusted EBITDA loss of
$666,899 –$0.04 per share (2024 Adjusted EBITDA income of$1,102,193 –$0.06 per share); and - Backlog of
$4.2 million .
A summary of the significant events and operational highlights for Network's year ended
- Our BRATS feature documentary received significant recognition at the 2025 Webby Awards, winning in two categories: Webby Winner – Video & Film: Documentary, and People's Voice Winner – Video & Film. The BRATS documentary was directed by original Brat Pack member
Andrew McCarthy (based on hisNew York Times bestselling book Brat: An '80s Story), in partnership withNEON andABC News , and premiered atTribeca Film Festival and then launched on Hulu, reaching #1 on the platform; - We delivered our
Sly Stone feature documentary,Sly Lives ! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), directed by Academy Award-winner and four-timeGrammy andSundance Film Festival Award-winner Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, in partnership with MRC Non-Fiction and Onyx Collective. The film debuted onJanuary 23, 2025 , at theSundance Film Festival and premiered onFebruary 13, 2025 , on Hulu/Disney . The film was also nominated for a Gotham TV Award in the Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast, or Streaming category, a Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special category, and a Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary; - We delivered a proprietary feature-length documentary entitled I Am
Luke Perry , airing on theCW Network ; - We announced a strategic distribution agreement with Elevation Pictures for the Canadian distribution of our I AM feature documentary library, commencing with three new highly anticipated titles, I Am
Luke Perry , I AmRaquel Welch , and I AmJoe Frazier , which premiered on Crave onJune 9 ,June 16 andJune 23 , respectively; and - We completed production on a five-episode documentary series for the
Hockey Hall of Fame .
Network also continued production on four other feature-length documentaries.
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1 "Adjusted EBITDA" is calculated based on EBITDA (known as earnings/loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) plus share-based payments expense, finance costs (income), foreign exchange gain (loss) and losses and other items of an unusual nature that do not reflect ongoing operations. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are commonly reported and widely used by investors and lenders as indicators of a company's operating performance and its ability to incur and service debt, as well as valuation metrics. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not earnings measures recognized by IFRS and therefore do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. Therefore, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. |
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2 The Company uses the non-IFRS measure "backlog," which is defined as the undiscounted value of signed agreements for production services for work that has not yet been performed, but which the Company expects to recognize revenue in future periods. The extent of eventual revenue recognized in future periods may be materially higher or lower than this amount, depending upon assumptions and expectations that include, but are not limited to the following: the terms of the contracts will not be altered; delivery of the Company's products will occur as scheduled; the purchasing party will make payment as and when due under the contract, and will comply with all payment terms; the US-CDN currency exchange rates remain stable (assumed to be |
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