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Ofcom's Digital TV Update Q3 2005


14th December 2005

The following are the main points in the document:

  • 65.9% of UK households now have digital TV, up from 63.0% at the end of Q2 2005
  • there are now 8.9 million Freeview set-top boxes and IDTVs in the market
  • over 1 million Freeview set-top boxes and IDTVs were sold in Q3 2005 (compared to 660,000 in Q3 2004) and 2.5m were sold in the first three quarters of 2005
  • Ofcom estimates there's 5.78 million Freeview households (households whose main digital TV platform is Freeview)
  • Sky now has 7.472 million subscribers
  • there are around 3.3 million subscribers to cable (analogue & digital, although analogue cable subscribers are to shift to digital next year, according to NTL/Telewest)
  • 2.6% have analogue cable, making the overall percentage of "multi-channel" homes 68.5%
  • there are 6.3 million households with free-to-view households (Freeview + free-to-view satellite)

 
 

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