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Global Sports Media Yearbook 2010 Brazil Brazil Population Population 198,739,269198,739,269 Cable TV subs 4.2m GDP/PPP GDP/PPP $2,030bn$1,998bn Satellite TV subs 2.4m GDP per capital GDP per capita $10,300$10,200 Broadband subs 2m TVHH TV Households 53 million53m Mobile broadband 300,000 Total pay-TV Total pay-TV 6.3 million6.9m Digital switchover June 2016 The Brazilian broadcasting market has long been dominated by The bigger challenge to Globo will nevertheless come from pay- the powerful Organizações Globo media group. The company television, which has a penetration rate of just over 10 per cent operates a nation-wide free-to-air network and a range of pay- – low by Latin American standards. Rising competition from new television channels and pay-per-view services. It also holds minority players, including Spain’s Telefônica and Mexico’s Telmex, as well stakes in the leading cable and digital satellite platforms and, as as local telecoms operators Embratel and Oi, will almost certainly if that weren’t enough, it has a wide range of top domestic and be felt in the next few years. international media rights to top soccer properties – a key draw in Even the government has had a go at reducing Globo’s soccer-mad Brazil, due to host the Fifa World Cup in 2014. dominance; in 2006, the competition authority, the CADE, ruled Globo’s rivals have tried hard in recent years to whittle down its that Globo could not maintain exclusive control over top domestic huge market share, and to some extent have succeeded, with and international soccer rights, a decision which led Globo to Rede Record in particular increasing its audience share through a sublicense its popular sports channels, SporTV and SporTV2, to successful mix of soap operas and top sport – including the 2010 rival pay-TV operators.
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