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The table below includes the top satellite pay television players in Western Europe.
Pay-TV operators in the list are ranked by total subscribers as of December 2008.
Top 10 European Satellite Pay-TV Operators (2009)
| Ranking | DTH
PAY-TV
OPERATOR | PLATFORM | COUNTRY | TOTAL SUBS
(Dec-08;
in thousands) | SUBS ON TOTAL TV
HOUSE
HOLDS
(in %) |
| 1 | BSkyB | Sky
Digital 1 | UK, IE | 9,238 | 34.0%
|
| 2 | Canal Plus France | CanalSat 1 | FR | 5,326 | 20.1%
|
| 3 | Sky Italia | Sky 1 | IT | 4,752 | 19.9% |
| 4 | Premiere | Premiere 1 | DE, AT | 2,399 | 5.8% |
| 5 | Sogecable | Digital
Plus | ES | 2,035 | 12.5% |
| 6 | Telenor | Canal
Digital | DK, FI,
NO, SE | 1,113 | 9.9% |
| 7 | MTG | Viasat 2 | DK, FI,
NO, SE | 676 | 6.0% |
| 8 | Zon Multimedia | TV Cabo | PT | 424 | 11.3% |
| 9 | Multichoice Hellas | Nova | CY, GR | 322 | 8.1% |
| 10 | Unity Media | Arena | DE | 191 | 0.5% |
Source: e-Media Institute 2009 - © e-Media Research Ltd.
Note: 1 Data refers to total Pay-TV subscribers, including platforms other than satellite (DTH)
2 Data refers to premium subscribers only.
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