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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 10-Q

Commission file number: 000-25755

WORLDGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

        Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý    No o

        Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o    No ý

        As of November 8, 2002, there were 23,577,963 shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, outstanding.

WORLDGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
(Dollars in Thousands)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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WORLDGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
(Dollars in Thousands, Except per Share and Share Amounts)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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WORLDGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
(Dollars in Thousands)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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WORLDGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Dollar Amounts are in Thousands, Except for Share and per Share Amounts)
(Unaudited)

1.    Basis of Presentation.

        The unaudited financial statements of WorldGate Communications, Inc. (the "Company") for the three months ended September 30, 2002 presented herein have been prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2001 and the notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K.

        The financial information in this Report reflects, in the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary to present fairly the results for the interim period. Quarterly operating results are not indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2002.

        Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior year condensed financial statements to conform to those classifications used in 2002.

2.    Operations and Liquidity.

        As of September 30, 2002 the Company had cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments of $5,935. The operating cash usage for the nine months ended September 30, 2002 was $8,827. In October 2002, the Company announced multiple actions which it believes will further reduce operating expenses and increase operating efficiencies. These actions include a reduction in work force as well as the implementation of an agreement with TVGateway to transfer to TVGateway certain WorldGate employees and functions that WorldGate is currently providing for TVGateway. The details of the transfer are still being finalized by the Company and TVGateway. When and as implemented, the planned transition of services removes both the obligation of WorldGate to provide the service as well as TVGateway's obligation to pay WorldGate for rendering the service. The expense of providing the service will be directly absorbed by TVGateway. Thus, although WorldGate's revenue attributable to the transitioned service is reduced, so is the corresponding expense of providing the service. As such, WorldGate will be negatively impacted in that it will no longer receive a profit from providing these services and potentially there will be some overhead which cannot be reduced or otherwise allocated and which was previously passed on to TVGateway. Based on the Company's current operating budget and cash flow projections for 2002 and 2003 we believe that we have sufficient cash and short-term investments to fund our operations for three to four quarters. As a strategy employed by the Company to obtain additional funding to continue operations beyond this period, the Company filed a registration statement with the SEC for a stock rights offering as described in more detail in Note 9 to Condensed Financial Statements. There is no guarantee when the registration statement will be declared effective and as to the level of the participation or the amount of proceeds, if any, to be received in connection with the rights offering.

        We have virtually no outstanding debt and our assets are not pledged as collateral. We continue to evaluate possibilities to obtain additional financing through public or private equity offerings, bank debt financing, asset securitizations or from other sources. Such additional financing would be subject to the risk of availability, may be dilutive to our shareholders, or could impose restrictions on operating

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activities. There can be no assurance that this additional financing will be available on terms acceptable to us, if at all.

3.    Recent Accounting Pronouncements.

        In July 2001, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets." This pronouncement changes the accounting for goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives from an amortized method to an impairment approach. SFAS No. 142 requires that goodwill be tested at least annually for impairment using a two-step process. The first step is to identify a potential impairment and, in transition, this step must be measured as of the beginning of the fiscal year. However, a company has six months from the date of adoption to complete the first step. The second step of the goodwill impairment test measures the amount of the impairment loss (measured as of the beginning of the year of adoption), if any, and must be completed by the end of the Company's fiscal year. Any impairment loss resulting from the transitional impairment tests will be reflected as the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle. The Company completed both the first and second steps of the goodwill impairment tests during the second quarter of 2002 and concluded that goodwill was not impaired as of the date of adoption.

        The Company had goodwill of $3,608 and accumulated amortization of $602 at December 31, 2001. In accordance with SFAS No. 142, no goodwill amortization expense was recognized during the nine month period ended September 30, 2002. During the second quarter of 2002, in an effort to cut costs and achieve operational efficiencies, the Company commenced the termination of all personnel of the former Digital Video Art, Inc. ("DVA") who performed engineering development services with expertise in digital television and 3D graphics. In conjunction with this action, it was determined that the carrying amount of the Company's remaining goodwill, which was originally recorded with the Company's acquisition of DVA, exceeded its fair value. As such, the Company measured the impairment loss by the amount the carrying value exceeded the implied fair value of the goodwill. The amount of the non-cash impairment loss was $3,006. The fair value of goodwill was estimated using the expected present value of future cash flows. This measurement is in accordance with SFAS No. 142. The change in the carrying amount of goodwill for the nine months ended September 30, 2002, is as follows:

        The estimated annual amortization of goodwill no longer recorded in accordance with the adoption of SFAS No. 142 prior to the impairment would have been $360. The estimated amortization for the period October 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002 of goodwill no longer recorded after the impairment is $0.

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        The following table provides comparative earnings and earnings per share had the non-amortization provisions of SFAS No. 142 been adopted for the previous periods presented:

        In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143, "Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations" ("FAS 143"). FAS 143 requires, among other things, retirement obligations to be recognized when they are incurred and displayed as liabilities, with a corresponding amount capitalized as part of the related long-lived asset. The capitalized element is required to be expensed using a systematic and rational method over its useful life. FAS 143 will be adopted by the Company commencing January 1, 2003 and is not expected to have a significant impact on the Company's financial statements.

        In June 2002, the FASB issued SFAS No. 146, "Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities." FAS 146 addresses financial accounting and reporting for costs associated with exit or disposal activities and nullifies Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 94-3, "Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring)." SFAS 146 requires that a liability for costs associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred rather than when a company commits to such an activity and also establishes fair value as the objective for initial measurement of the liability. FAS 146 will be adopted by the Company for exit or disposal activities that are initiated after December 31, 2002. The Company does not expect the adoption of FAS 146 to have a material impact on its financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

4.    Agreement with Argentinean customer.

        In 2001, the Company sold $742 worth of deployment equipment, keyboards and service fees to a cable operator in Argentina who at the time, was not experiencing economic difficulties. Shortly after the sale, the country of Argentina encountered economic difficulties that adversely affected our Argentine customer's financial position. Our Argentine customer made a substantial $400 payment on the equipment purchased but was having difficulties satisfying the remaining unpaid portion of their invoice. During the second quarter of 2002, after further negotiations with our Argentine customer, the Company believed that the best course of action to salvage value from the remaining $342 unpaid balance was to agree to a partial cash payment and other consideration of $55, take back a portion of the keyboards previously sold worth $150, and write off the remaining unsatisfied portion of their invoice of $137. The keyboards taken back from our customer can be resold to other cable operators in Spanish speaking countries. It is not a normal policy or practice of the Company to take back inventory previously sold; it was done only due to the extenuating circumstances. Our Argentine customer has made the partial cash payments as stipulated in the agreement and is now paying their monthly service fees on a regular basis.

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5.    Inventories.

        Inventories are summarized as follows:

        During the nine month period ended September 30, 2002, as a response to the slow economy, turmoil in the cable industry and the Company's slower than expected deployment of WorldGate's interactive television products and services, the Company reevaluated its inventory and determined that it was in excess of foreseeable needs and should be resold. The carrying values of the inventory that were identified to be used in operations were written down to market value, which was lower than carrying value. The carrying values of the identified excess inventory that will be sold were written down to the anticipated recovery rate or salvage value. Total charges to reduce the carrying amount of inventory determined to be in excess of foreseeable needs was approximately $1,601, of which $1,219 was to reflect the lower of cost or market and $382 was reserved for excess inventory quantities. This non-cash charge is included in the "cost of equipment product revenues" line item on the consolidated statements of operations. During the third quarter of 2002, the Company recorded equipment product revenues of $414 for the sale of excess inventory.

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6.    Related Party Transactions.

        In 1997, the Company entered into an agreement with a cable operator who is an investor. Revenues recognized from this investor were approximately $119 and ($91) respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001 and approximately $299 and $157, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001. Accounts receivable from this investor amounted to approximately $119 at September 30, 2002 and $73 at December 31, 2001.

        In 1997 and 1998, the Company entered into agreements with five stockholders to provide the Company with engineering and development and facility support. As a result of these agreements, the Company has expensed approximately $355 and $348, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001 and approximately $1,508 and $1,209, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001. Accounts payable to these stockholders amounted to $1,083 and $733 at September 30, 2002 and December 31, 2001, respectively. Four of these stockholders are suppliers of technology and components for the Company's products and services. These agreements provide for licensing of technology, as well as contracted services, including hardware and software development, product testing and certification, and the creation and development of tools and systems to facilitate the Company's engineering efforts. These agreements do not provide for ongoing royalties, purchase provisions, or for any requirement to provide additional funding to the Company. The fifth stockholder provides facility and facility support.

        In 1998 the Company entered into a leasing arrangement for a building with an entity formed by non-employee investors. Included in Deposit with related party and other assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheet at September 30, 2002 is $864 related to this lease.

7.    TVGateway Joint Venture and related Cable Operator Agreements

        WorldGate has a management agreement with TVGateway to provide engineering, operations and administrative support services. This management agreement was effective as of July 24, 2000, with an expiration date of December 31, 2001, unless otherwise extended or terminated. The management agreement expressly provided for an automatic extension up to two additional one-year periods unless TVGateway provided notice to WorldGate at least 90 days prior to the expiration of the then current term. Such notice was not provided to WorldGate and accordingly the management agreement has been extended pursuant to the automatic extension clause until December 31, 2003, and remains in effect as of the writing of this response.

        The management agreement, however, also contained a provision providing for WorldGate and TVGateway to cooperate to transition to TVGateway some or all of the support services being provided by WorldGate and/or the employees providing these services. In addition, this provision also required WorldGate to remain available to provide support services until July 24, 2005. WorldGate and TVGateway have agreed to commence the transition of services pursuant to this provision. In addition, the parties have agreed that the management agreement shall be of no further force and effect with respect to the services that are transferred as of the completion of the specific transfers. Accordingly, WorldGate would also be relieved of any continuing obligation to provide such transitioned services. Although both parties are obligated to cooperate to implement the transition, the exact details of the services to be transitioned as well as the timing of the transition are still being finalized.

        Any transition of services removes both the obligation of WorldGate to provide the service as well as TVGateway's obligation to pay WorldGate for rendering the service. Rather the expense of providing the service is directly absorbed by TVGateway. Thus, although WorldGate's revenue attributable to the transitioned service is reduced, so is the corresponding expense of providing the service. As such, WorldGate will be negatively impacted in that it will no longer receive profit providing

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these services and potentially there will be some overhead which cannot be reduced or otherwise allocated and which was previously passed on to TVGateway.

        Charges for such services, which are included in service fee revenue, totaled $3,438 and $2,968, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001. For the nine months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001, respectively, charges for such services were $9,464 and $7,346. In addition, product sales to TVGateway for the three months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001 were $86 and $71, respectively, and $182 and $503, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001. Accounts Receivable from TVGateway amounted to $633 at September 30, 2002 and $559 at December 31, 2001. WorldGate is accounting for its 22% investment in the joint venture under the equity method.

        The Company's share of TVGateway losses to date have exceeded our investment, and given that the Company is not contemplating any additional investment in TVGateway, nor is there any requirement for WorldGate to invest further in TVGateway, we do not foresee any additional losses to the Company as a result of growing TVGateway losses. TVGateway continues to develop the guide products and it is envisioned that the partner MSO's will deploy the product though it is unclear as to when this might happen and the level of deployment the MSO's will commit to TVGateway. It should also be understood that the cable operators continue to use competitive guide products and there is no certainty that they will convert some of these competitive products to TVGateway. TVGateway is fully dependent on funding from its MSO owners and to the extent one or more of the partners decides not to provide additional funding this could impact on the viability of TVGateway.

        Concurrent with the consummation of multi-year agreements with four cable operators, the Company entered into a supply agreement with the cable operators whereby the Company agreed to supply these cable operators, on a pro rata basis, products that pertain to the development and deployment of the WorldGate service. At September 30, 2002, the Company had a remaining liability of $4,142 for the anticipated cost of satisfying this obligation.

        During the second quarter of 2002, Adelphia Communications, Inc., one of the cable operator joint venture partners, filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. As such, this may affect its ability to participate in future additional capital contributions to the joint venture. The joint venture partners are not obligated to continue funding TVGateway.

8.    Net Loss per Share

        Basic and diluted net loss per common share is computed by dividing the net loss available to common stockholders for the period by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. The calculation of diluted net loss per common share excludes potential common shares if the effect is antidilutive. Potential common shares are composed of shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options and warrants. The number of potential common shares which would have been assumed to be converted in the periods ended September 30, 2002 and 2001 and have a dilutive effect if the Company had income from continuing operations is 0 and 12,120, respectively.

9.    Recent Developments.

        The Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September

        16, 2002 relating to a proposed distribution to its shareholders of subscription rights to purchase additional shares of common stock and warrants of the Company. It is anticipated that each right will entitle the holder to purchase one share of the Company's common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock at a subscription price to be determined. The Company anticipates that the

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rights offering will begin promptly following the effectiveness of the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company intends to use the proceeds of the rights offering for general corporate purposes. The Company does not know when the registration statement will be declared effective and there is no guarantee as to the level of the participation or the amount of the proceeds, if any, to be received in connection with the rights offering.

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

(Dollar Amounts are in Thousands, Except Share and per Share Amounts)

FORWARD-LOOKING AND CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS.

        We may from time to time make written or oral forward-looking statements, including those contained in the following Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The words "estimate," "project," "believe," "intend," "expect," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. In order to take advantage of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, we are hereby identifying certain important factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievement to differ materially from those that may be contained in or implied by any forward-looking statement made by or on behalf of WorldGate. The factors, individually or in the aggregate, that could cause such forward-looking statements not to be realized include, without limitation, the following: (1) difficulty in developing and implementing marketing and business plans, (2) continued losses, (3) difficulty or inability to raise additional financing, if needed, on terms acceptable to us, (4) loss of TVGateway or any one of our other largest customers, (5) industry competition factors and other uncertainty that a market for our interactive TV products will develop, (6) challenges associated with cable operators (including, uncertainty that they will offer our interactive TV products, inability to predict the manner in which they will market and price our interactive TV products and existence of potential conflicts of interests and contractual limitations impeding their ability to offer our interactive TV products), (7) challenges with advertisers and television programmers (including uncertainties that they will support our Channel HyperLinking^SM technology), (8) departure of one or more key persons and (9) delisting of our common stock from the Nasdaq National Market, (10) changes in regulatory requirements and (11) other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you that the foregoing list of important factors is not intended to be, and is not, exhaustive. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of WorldGate.

Results of Operations:

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

        The consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements required management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

        The significant accounting policies of the Company are described in the notes to the consolidated financial statements included in the annual report on Form 10-K. Judgments and estimates of uncertainties are required in applying the Company's accounting policies in many areas. Following are some of the areas requiring significant judgments and estimates: revenue recognition, accounts

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receivable, inventories, and cash flow and valuation assumptions in performing asset impairment tests of long-lived assets.

Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2002 and September 30, 2001

        Revenues.    Revenues increased from $3,795 for the three months ended September 30, 2001 to $4,296 for the three months ended September 30, 2002. Revenues decreased from $12,652 for the nine months ended September 30, 2001 to $11,389 for the nine months ended September 30, 2002. WorldGate derives revenue by providing technology and services to its customers for their delivery of interactive television, or ITV, products. Our technology consists of the hardware, software and know-how for delivering over traditional television distribution platforms, such as those provided by cable television operators, the data, information and applications that comprise these ITV products, as well as the data, information and applications to be delivered through the use of our hardware and software. The Company has three primary revenue components (i) the purchase price received from the cable operator for the required hardware to deliver the data, information and applications, (ii) service fees from the cable operator for the (a) end-users' access to the delivered data, information and applications, and (b) for the services provided by the Company to support the cable operator with configuring, installing and maintaining the required equipment and configuring and delivering the data, information and applications, and (iii) advertising and transaction revenue received from advertisers and e-commerce merchants for advertising and transaction opportunities placed in the data, information and applications delivered to the end-user.

        At September 30, 2001 we had deployed our technology in 59 cable systems with approximately 412,000 Revenue Generating Units. As of September 30, 2002 we had deployed our technology in 66 cable systems, representing approximately 600,224 Revenue Generating Units. As cable operators began to purchase and install the required equipment for their ITV products, the equipment revenue component has, until recently, been the primary component or our revenues. During recent quarters, however, our sales of equipment, and therefore this component of our revenues, has been reduced as the result of a delay in the introduction of interactive television products as well as a reduced capital expenditure posture within the cable television industry, and is currently running at a rate considerably lower than we anticipated. The latter two revenue components, which are largely dependent upon the delivery of the data, information and applications made possible through the use of the installed equipment, would be expected to grow as the equipment is installed and more end-users are added. These latter two components of our revenues have increased in both magnitude and significance, however, the significance of the service component of our revenues has been made even more apparent by the reduction in significance of the equipment revenue component as described above. Furthermore, the service component of our revenues has grown faster than we expected as a result of the services provided to TVGateway LLC as discussed below, and to the extent these services are transitioned to TVGateway we would expect the services component of our revenues to be reduced by the value of the transitioned services. Although there can be no certainty as to if and when a resumption in capital spending might take place or whether such resumption will result in increased deployment of ITV products, we do expect the resumption of a more traditional balance in the significance of the hardware and service components of our revenues.

        As of September 30, 2002, substant