European Pay TV Operator Forecasts

Pay TV subscriptions for the 95 operators across 25 countries covered in a new report from Digital TV Research will increase from a collective 96.2 million in 2007 to 140.9 million by 2017. The European Pay TV Operator Forecasts report concentrates on paying subscribers.

Despite losing TV subscribers, UPC/Liberty Global will remain Europe’s largest pay TV operation by some distance. Germany’s Unitymedia will lead the way for Liberty Global.

UPC/Liberty Global will not be the only operator to experience falling TV subscriber numbers between 2011 and 2017. In fact, this will happen for 31 of the 95 operators covered in this report – or a third of the total. Subscriber numbers will fall for various reasons, the most common of which is increased competition. Traditional pay TV operators now face greater rivalry than ever before – either from other pay TV platforms such as IPTV or satellite or from “free” multichannel TV services such as DTT and online TV and video.

Published in September 2012, this 140-page electronically-delivered report comes in two parts:

• A 110-page PDF giving a global executive summary, country/operator analysis and forecasts.
• An 30-page excel workbook giving comparison tables and country-by-country forecasts in detail for 95 operators across 25 territories from 2007 to 2017.