Asia Pacific Pay TV Operator Forecasts

Table of Contents

Published in September 2015, this 124-page electronically-delivered report comes in two parts:

 A 98-page PDF giving a global executive summary, operator analysis, country-by-country analysis and forecasts.  An excel workbook giving comparison tables and country-by-country forecasts in detail for 68 operators across 20 territories for every year from 2010 to 2020.

Countries and operators covered:

Country No of ops Operators Australia 1 Foxtel Cambodia 2 ONE TV; CDN China 4 China Radio & TV Network; China Telecom; BesTV; China Unicom Hong Kong 2 Now TV; i-cable India 11 Dish TV; Hathway; Siti; Tata Sky; Videocon d2h; In Digital; Airtel Digital; Sun Direct; Den Networks; Reliance; MTNL Indonesia 11 Indovision; Transvision; Top TV; Okevision; Linknet; Orange TV; Big TV; Viva+; Aora; K Vision; NexMedia Japan 3 NTT; J:Com; SkyPerfecTV Malaysia 2 Astro; TM Mongolia 1 Ddish Myanmar 2 Skynet; MRTV4 Nepal 1 Dish Media New Zealand 2 Sky; Vodafone Pakistan 1 PTCL Philippines 2 Cignal; SkyCable Singapore 2 StarHub; Mio S Korea 5 KT Olleh; CJ Hellovision; B TV; LG U+; SkyLife Sri Lanka 2 Dialog; Peo Taiwan 4 CHT; Taiwan Broadband; Kbro; CNS Thailand 2 CTH; Truevisions Vietnam 8 SCTV; VTVCab; VNPT; K+; HTV-TMS; Viettel; AVG; FPT

Forecasts (2010-2020) contain the following detail for each country:

By country: TV households Digital cable subs Analog cable subs Pay IPTV subscribers Pay digital satellite TV subs Pay DTT homes Total pay TV subscribers Pay TV revenues

By operator (and by platform by operator): Pay TV subscribers Share of pay TV subscribers by operator Subscription & VOD revenues Share of pay TV revenues by operator ARPU

Pay TV operators progress in Asia Pacific

Despite economic growth concerns, pay TV subscriptions for Asia Pacific’s top 68 operators will increase by 74% from a collective 376 million in 2014 to 535 million by 2020, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. These operators from 20 countries will climb from 75% of Asia Pacific pay TV subscribers in 2014 to 83% by 2020.

Top five Asia Pacific pay TV operators by subscribers (000) 2014 2020 China Radio & TV 197,905 China Radio & TV 251,654 Den Networks (India) 13,000 China Telecom 27,991 China Telecom 13,300 BesTV (China) 25,120 Dish TV (India) 12,500 Hathway (India) 20,108 BesTV (China) 11,970 Dish TV (India) 19,391 Source: Digital TV Research. Note: paying subscribers only

The Asia Pacific Pay TV Operator Forecasts report concludes that China and India dominate the operator rankings by subscribers. Government policy to consolidate cable TV operations means that China Radio & TV has become the world’s largest pay TV operator by a long way, with 198 million subscribers by end- 2014. The operator will soon represent every cable TV home in China, with 252 million subscribers expected by 2020 – up by nearly 54 million on 2014.

At the other end of the scale, Korea’s CJ Hellovision will lose 827,000 subscribers over the same period. In fact, nine operators are expected to experience subscriber decreases between 2014 and 2020.

Total subscription and VOD revenues for the 68 operators will climb by nearly $10 billion between 2014 and 2020 to $33 billion. These operators will account for 80% of Asia Pacific pay TV revenues by 2020, up from 74% in 2014.

Top five Asia Pacific pay TV operators by subscription & VOD revenues ($ million) 2014 2020 China Radio & TV 6,759 China Radio & TV 8,917 Foxtel (Australia) 2,474 Foxtel (Australia) 2,323 J:Com (Japan) 1,380 J:Com (Japan) 2,044 NTT (Japan) 1,185 NTT (Japan) 1,553 Astro (Malaysia) 1,184 Astro (Malaysia) 1,228 Source: Digital TV Research

The dominance of China and India is diminished when the operators are ranked in revenue terms [subscriptions and VOD only]. China Radio & TV will add a massive $2.16 billion between 2014 and 2020. In fact, five operators will add more than $500 million in revenues. However, 10 operators will lose revenues, with Foxtel (down by $151 million) declining by the most.