1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. METHODOLOGY

3. MARKET STRUCTURE
3.1. Market overview
   3.1.1. TV funding  
   3.1.2. Pay TV’s share of the market
   3.1.3. Digital gains ground
   3.1.4. Penetration of cable and IPTV

3.2. Evolution of the Pay TV market in Europe
    •  What impact will the economic crisis have on the European Pay-TV market?
   3.2.1. Technology factors
    • HD increasingly common
    • Improved quality of service
    • HD service strategies
    • HDTV: soon a basic service thanks to free-to-air DTT
    • The arrival of 3D
    • The development of mobile TV
   3.2.2. Competition factors
    • Competition from free-to-air multichannels
    • Video sharing sites
   3.2.3. Consumption pattern factors
    • Time-shifted viewing
    • Consumption of pre-recorded TV spurred on by the Web
    • Online videos
    • TV and video on the go

3.3. Primary European markets
For each country studied: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden), Spain, the United Kingdom
    • Market structure: terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV broadcasting
    • Key data: sales figures, TV households, pay TV households
    • Most important players in the pay-TV market
      - Distribution platforms
      - Number of TV subscribers
      - Total and TV sales figures
      - Number of channels
      - Pricing
      - Additional services
  

4. ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIES
4.1. Player strategies
   4.1.1. Underlying trends
    • A necessary differentiation
    • Quality and innovation central to strategy
    • More robust services at (almost) the same price
    • A mild trend towards internationalization
   4.1.2. Strategies by category of player
    • Premium channels: the race for exclusive rights and top quality
    • Satellite packages: bonus for innovation
    • Cable operators: making the most of network capacity
    • ISPs and telecom operators: an “icing on the cake” approach?
    • Commercial DTT operators: pay TV for all

4.2. Player profiles
For each player studied:
    • Service launch dates
    • Business areas
    • Geographic coverage
    • Business and financial data: overall and VOD sales, ARPU, number of subscribers, market ranking
    • Partnerships: technical, content, telecoms, equipment, Internet, film
    • Strategies: sales, pricing, innovation, services, customer loyalty

5. MARKET FORECASTS
5.1. Forecast hypotheses

5.2. Forecasts for 2008–2013
For each zone and country studied:
    • TV funding  
    • Pay TV’s share of the market
    • Digital gains ground
    • Penetration of cable and IPTV
   5.2.1. Europe
    • France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain, the United Kingdom
   5.2.2. North America
   5.2.3. Latin America
   5.2.4. Asia-Pacific
   5.2.5. World

Table 1: TV funding in the major geographic zones
Table 2: Breakdown of TV households between free-to-air and pay TV in the major geographic zones
Table 3: Breakdown of TV households between analog and digital in the major geographic zones
Table 4: Breakdown of households by TV access mode
Table 5: Daily consumption of live and pre-recorded TV by Web users aged 18 to 25, in France, Italy and the UK
Table 6: TV market in Germany
Table 7: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Germany
Table 8: TV market in Spain
Table 9: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Spain
Table 10: TV market in France
Table 11: Most important players in the pay-TV market in France
Table 12: TV market in Hungary
Table 13: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Hungary
Table 14: TV market in Italy
Table 15: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Italy
Table 16: TV market in the Netherlands
Table 17: Most important players in the pay-TV market in the Netherlands
Table 18: TV market in Poland
Table 19: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Poland
Table 20: TV market in Portugal
Table 21: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Portugal
Table 22: TV market in the UK
Table 23: Most important players in the pay-TV market in the UK
Table 24: TV market in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Table 25: Most important players in the pay-TV market in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Table 34: Comparison of broadcast network capacities in Europe
Table 35: TV funding in Germany
Table 36: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Germany
Table 37: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Germany
Table 38: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Germany
Table 39: TV funding in the UK
Table 40: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in the UK
Table 41: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in the UK
Table 42: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in the UK
Table 43: TV funding in France
Table 44: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in France
Table 45: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in France
Table 46: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in France
Table 47: TV funding in Italy
Table 48: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Italy
Table 49: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Italy
Table 50: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Italy
Table 51: TV funding in Spain
Table 52: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Spain
Table 53: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Spain
Table 54: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Spain
Table 55: TV funding in the Netherlands
Table 56: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in the Netherlands
Table 57: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in the Netherlands
Table 58: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in the Netherlands
Table 59: TV funding in Portugal
Table 60: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Portugal
Table 61: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Portugal
Table 62: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Portugal
Table 63: TV funding in Scandinavia
Table 64: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Scandinavia
Table 65: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Scandinavia
Table 66: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Scandinavia
Table 67: TV funding in Poland
Table 68: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Poland
Table 69: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Poland
Table 70: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Poland
Table 71: TV funding in Hungary
Table 72: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Hungary
Table 73: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Hungary
Table 74: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Hungary
Table 75: TV funding in Europe
Table 76: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Europe
Table 77: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Europe
Table 78: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Europe
Table 79: TV funding in North America
Table 80: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in North America
Table 81: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in North America
Table 82: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in North America
Table 83: TV funding in Latin America
Table 84: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Latin America
Table 85: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Latin America
Table 86: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Latin America
Table 87: TV funding in Asia-Pacific
Table 88: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV in Asia-Pacific
Table 89: Breakdown of households between analog and digital in Asia-Pacific
Table 90: Breakdown of households by TV access mode in Asia-Pacific
Table 91: TV funding - World
Table 92: Breakdown of households between free-to-air and pay TV - World
Table 93: Breakdown of households between analog and digital - World
Table 94: Breakdown of households by TV access mode - World

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Figure 1: Respective share of each geographic zone in the global TV market, 2008
Figure 3: Change in TV funding sources
Figure 3: Breakdown of TV households between free-to-air and pay TV in the major geographic zones, 2008
Figure 4: Digital’s development in each geographic zone, 2005–2008
Figure 5: Breakdown of terrestrial households by access conditions (in 2008)
Figure 6: Breakdown of satellite households by access conditions (in 2008)
Figure 7: Breakdown of cable households by access conditions (in 2008)
Figure 8: Change in IPTV households in each geographic zone, 2005–2008
Figure 9: Characteristics of SD and HD picture
Figure 10: Prototype of the Imagenio 3D application
Figure 11: Deployment of broadcast mobile TV in Europe
Figure 12: Free-to-air channel offerings on DTT in Italy
Figure 13: Leading online video sites in France by video views, January 2009
Figure 14: French television viewers’ interest in the personalization of program schedules, by age
Figure 15: Breakdown of time by Internet usage, in France
Figure 16: Number of unique viewers on online video sites in the UK and in France, January 2008–2009
Figure 17: Percentage of UK and French Web users that have watched a video online, January 2009
Figure 18: Number of hours of online video consumed in the UK and in France, January 2009
Figure 19: Penetration of the most common mobile Web activities in major European countries
Figure 20: Development of DVR equipment in the US
Figure 21: Breakdown of time by age
Figure 22: Impact of DVR on consumption

Zones & Countries covered
• World
• North America
• Asia-Pacific
• Europe:
  - Germany
  - Spain
  - France
  - Hungary
  - Italia
  - Netherlands
  - Poland
  - Portugal
  - United Kingdom
  - Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) 

Data analysed: 2008-2013
• Financing the TV : Revenues (EUR billions)
- of which subscription
- of which public funding
- of which advertising

• Access TV : TV households
- of which digital free-to-air terrestrial HH
- of which digital pay-TV terrestrial HH
- of which digital free-to-air satellite HH
- of which digital pay-TV satellite HH
- of which analogue cable HH
- of which digital cable HH
- of which IPTV HH

• Pay TV households (millions)
- of which digital satellite
- of which analogue cable
- of which digital cable
- of which IPTV*

France   
• Canal+*
• CanalSat
• Free*
• Numéricâble
• Orange*
• SFR-Neuf Cegetel
• TNtop
• TV Numéric 

Germany
• Arcor Digital TV (Arcor)
• Alice Home TV (Alice/HanseNet)
• Kabel Deutschland
• Kable BW
• Premiere*
• TeleColombus
• T-Entertain (Deutsche Telekom)
• Unity Media Cable 

Hungary
• Digi TV
• Hello HD
• T-Home (Magyar Telekom)
• UPC Hungary* 

Italia
• Alice Home TV (Telecom Italia)
• Dahlia TV
• Fastweb
• Mediaset Premium
• Infostrada TV (Wind)
• Sky Italia*
• Tiscali TV 

Netherlands
• Canal Digitaal
• Film1/Sport1
• KPN (Digitenne)
• Tele2 Vision
• UPC Netherlands*
• Ziggo

Poland   
• Aster
• Cyfrowy Polsat*
• Cyfra+
• Multimedia Polska
• n (ITI Neovision)
• TP Orange*
• UPC Polska*
• Vectra
 
Portugal
• AR Telecom
• Cabovisão
• Clix SmarTV (Sonaecom)
• MEO TV (Portugal Telecom)
• Zon TV Cabo* 

Scandinavia 
• Boxer TV
• Canal Digital (Telenor)*
• ComHem
• Get (ex-UPC Norway)
• Riks TV
• Telia Sonera
• TDC (YouSee)
• Viasat* 

Spain
• Digital+
• Euskatel
• Telefónica*
• Jazztel
• ONO
• Orange TV*
• R Cable
• Sogecable*
• Superbanda
• Telecable de Asturias 

United-Kingdom
• British Telecom Vision
• BSkyB*
• Chellomedia*
• Tiscali TV (Home Choice)
• Top Up TV
• Virgin Media*
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* Detailed player profiles