Western Europe pay TV subs to fall below 100m Western Europe’s pay TV subscriber total will slip below 100 million by 2025. However, this is no US steep decline as subscriber numbers will drop by only 2.67 million between 2019 and 2025. The number of Western European pay TV subscribers will fall by 2.6% between 2019 and 2025, with revenues down by 12.5%. Homes will pay less for TV as they move to bundles. Western Europe will have 99.86 million pay TV subscribers by 2025. All but four of the 18 countries covered by Digital TV Research will lose pay TV subscribers between 2019 and 2025. Germany will decline by the most (down by 871,000), followed by the UK (785,000). Western European TV homes by platform (mil.) 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 2019 2020 2025 Pay DTT 3 3 2 Free DTT 49 50 53 Free satellite 23 23 23 Pay Satellite 23 23 20 IPTV 36 37 40 A Cable 1 1 0 D cable 39 39 38 A terres 0 0 0 Simon Murray, Principal Analyst at Digital TV Research, said: “IPTV is gaining subscribers at the expense of the other pay TV platforms. It overtook satellite TV in 2015 and will do the same to cable by 2023.” For more information on the Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts report, please contact: Simon Murray,
[email protected], Tel: +44 20 8248 5051 Western Europe Pay TV Forecasts Table of Contents Published in April 2020, this 192-page PDF, PowerPoint and excel report comes in three parts: • Outlook: Forecasts for 18 countries in a 40-page PowerPoint document full of charts, graphs and bullet points; • Excel workbook covering each year from 2010 to 2025 for 18 countries by household penetration, by pay TV subscribers, by pay TV revenues and by major operator.