{"id":1692,"date":"2017-02-06T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/forecast-for-mena-pay-tv-revenue-downgraded\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:41:36","slug":"forecast-for-mena-pay-tv-revenue-downgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/forecast-for-mena-pay-tv-revenue-downgraded\/","title":{"rendered":"Forecast for MENA Pay-TV Revenue Downgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Pay-TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are forecast to reach $4 billion in 2021, according to Digital TV Research, which has downgraded its expectations for the region.<\/p>\n<p>The previous edition of the <em>Middle East and North Africa Pay TV Forecasts<\/em> report predicted $5 billion in revenue for 2021. Simon Murray, principal analyst at Digital TV Research, explained: \u201cAlong with long-running conflicts and slower economic growth, several countries (notably Turkey and Egypt) have suffered substantial currency devaluation. OTT is creating competition to traditional pay-TV operators, especially in Israel. It\u2019s not all bad news, with Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE enjoying good growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkish pay-TV revenue forecasts for 2021 are down $361 million on the last edition, with Israel falling by $220 million, the UAE by $174 million and Saudi Arabia by $149 million\u2014these four countries will account for 90 percent of the revenue shortfall between the two editions.<\/p>\n<p>Legitimate pay-TV revenues will reach $4.12 billion by 2022, up by 17 percent from $3.52 billion in 2016. Five countries will contribute more than three-quarters of the region\u2019s pay-TV revenues in 2022. The number of pay-TV homes will increase by nearly 5 million between 2015 and 2022 to 19.52 million. About 18.7 percent of TV households paid for TV signals by end-2016, which will climb to 22.2 percent by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay-TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are forecast to reach $4 billion in 2021, according to Digital TV Research, which has downgraded its expectations for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,69],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-analysis","category-top-stories","tag-digital-tv-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forecast for MENA Pay-TV Revenue Downgraded - TVMEA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pay-TV revenues in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are forecast to reach $4 billion in 2021, according to Digital TV Research, which has downgraded its expectations for the region.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/forecast-for-mena-pay-tv-revenue-downgraded\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forecast for MENA Pay-TV Revenue Downgraded - 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