{"id":4566,"date":"2013-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2013\/04\/10\/new-report-shows-health-of-euro-pay-tv-sector\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:00:00","slug":"new-report-shows-health-of-euro-pay-tv-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2013\/04\/10\/new-report-shows-health-of-euro-pay-tv-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Shows Health of Euro Pay-TV Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
CANNES: A new report from the European Audiovisual Observatory has found that Europe’s top pay-TV platforms continue to see gains despite the region’s economic troubles, outpacing revenue growth at the leading ad-funded broadcasters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The report explores the financials of Europe’s top 20 commercial entities—11 pay-TV platforms and nine ad-supported broadcasters. The top pay-TV platforms delivered revenue growth of 3.7 percent to 33.9 billion euros, while the ad-funded broadcasters saw revenues fall 1 percent to 20.8 billion euros.<\/p>\n By revenues, Sky tops the list at 8.5 billion euros in 2012, a 5.4 percent gain, followed by Liberty Global at 7.8 billion euros, a 6.3 percent gain, and RTL Group, where revenues were up 4 percent to 5.8 billion euros. Rounding out the top ten are Canal+, Mediaset, Virgin Media, Sky Italia, ProSiebenSat.1, ITV plc and TF1. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CANNES: A new report from the European Audiovisual Observatory has found that Europe’s top pay-TV platforms continue to see gains despite the region’s economic troubles, outpacing revenue growth at the leading ad-funded broadcasters. The report explores the financials of Europe’s top 20 commercial entities—11 pay-TV platforms and nine ad-supported broadcasters. The top pay-TV platforms delivered …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\n"European households have not only generally maintained their subscriptions, but have also demonstrated interest for new services (a ‘Go’ formula providing access everywhere on any device; transactional VoD services)," the report notes. "The pay TV market continues to strengthen."<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n