BSkyB passes 5 million HD subscriber mark in 4Q 2013
Thursday, January 30th, 2014MIDDLESEX, United Kingdom — British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (LSE:BSY) has released unaudited results for the six months ended 31 December 2013.
“Strong customer demand drove an increase of 873,000 paid-for subscription products in the three months ended 31 December 2013, 42% higher than the same period last year. TV products saw the highest quarterly growth for three years, boosted by a strong performance from HD. In all, we added 112,000 new HD customers, taking our total HD base past the five million milestone. Sky Go Extra, our paid-for mobile TV service, also grew well with 258,000 net new additions in the quarter. This took the total base to 643,000, less than one year after launch.
The growth of NOW TV was supported by a positive customer response to our new low-cost NOW TV box, which we started to market in the autumn.
We grew the number of Sky+HD connected homes by a record one million in the three months ended 31 December 2013. This means that 4.4 million of our TV customers now have a connected Sky+HD box, up more than 100% year on year.”
Customer Metrics (’000s)
As at As at Annual Quarterly Growth 31-Dec-13 31-Dec-12 Growth 31-Dec-13 --------- --------- ------ ---------------- Total paid-for products (‘000s) 33,307 29,513 +3,794 +873 TV 10,536 10,358 +178 +77 HD 5,005 4,561 +444 +112 Multiroom 2,528 2,467 +61 +25 Sky Go Extra 643 - +643 +258 New connected TV services (‘000s) Internet-connected Sky+HD boxes 4,352 1,715 +2,637 +1,001 Sky Go unique users 3,314 3,066 +248 +23
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