The profit includes $6.7 million in government aid in the wake of September's attacks.
The profit for the quarter last year included $30.1 million, or 57 cents a share, for an accounting change.
In Neoclassical economics profit is total investment performance and includes economic rent.
The profit comes mostly from advertising sales, but also includes some affiliate fees.
That profit included a one-time gain of $214 million from the federal government as reimbursement for security taxes and expenses.
The profit included 730 million francs from the sale of assets.
Net profit does not include interest charges, dividends or tax.
The profit included an extraordinary gain of 54.9 million rupees.
That profit included $33 million in tax breaks carried forward from the company's earlier losses.
The 1991 profit of the chemical unit included a $70 million insurance payment related to the lethal 1989 explosion at its Houston plant.