Pay television subscriber growth continues

The growth of pay television continues, as providers embrace multiscreen services to offer subscribers more viewing options. The Multiscreen Index published by informitv shows a 1.4% increase in digital television subscriber numbers across 100 leading pay-television services around the world in the first quarter of 2014. They collectively gained 4.17 million video customers over three months and 17.43 million year on year, an increase of 5.2%.

The 100 multichannel pay-TV services in the Multiscreen Index cover over 30 countries and represent around 330 million subscribing homes worldwide.

Services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa gained the most subscribers, led by Tricolor in Russia, adding 340,000 in three months.

Satellite services made the greatest gains over the quarter, just ahead of telco networks, while operators in India accounted for most of the gains for cable.http://informitv.com/2014/07/07/pay-television-subscriber-growth-continues/