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Non-pay TV homes to double in North America
Mar 27, 2017 – The number of pay TV subs in North America will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 102 million in 2022. Although this marks a 9% decline, this does not indicate a massive cord-cutting problem.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, North America, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Mexico defies Latin America’s pay TV torpor
Mar 20, 2017 – Mexico overtook Brazil in 2016 to become Latin America’s largest pay TV market, despite Brazil having twice as many TV households, according to a report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Digital TV, Latin America, Market Research, Subscribers

Top U.S. pay TV providers lost ~795,000 subscribers in 2016
Mar 16, 2017 – Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US lost about 795,000 net video subscribers in 2016, compared to a pro forma loss of about 445,000 subscribers in 2015.
News categories: Leichtman Research, Bruce Leichtman, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers, USA

Cord-cutting in Canada reaches record level in 2016
Mar 15, 2017 – Canada’s publicly traded television service providers as a whole continued to lose a record number of TV subscribers in 2016 but the trends shifted as the cable companies lost considerably fewer subscribers and the IPTV providers saw subscriber growth slow significantly.
News categories: Boon Dog Professional Services, Mario Mota, Cable TV, Canada, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Africa Pay TV revenue to reach $6 billion in 2021
Mar 13, 2017 – According to the latest data from Dataxis for the year ending 2016, Africa Pay TV subscribers stood at approximately 18.7 million representing an increase of approximately 2 million subscribers compared to the previous year.
News categories: Dataxis, Pascal Orhan, Africa, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Kagan releases 4th quarter U.S. multichannel subscriber report
Mar 10, 2017 – Cord cutting accelerated in the fourth quarter 2016 according to Kagan. Kagan estimates the combined cable, DBS and telco sectors lost 460,000 video customers during the period, bringing the overall 2016 decline to a record 1.8 million.
News categories: Kagan, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Nordic region leads Europe's SVOD market
Mar 9, 2017 – The Nordic region comprising Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden leads the SVOD market in Europe. According to Dataxis research, the Nordic region represented almost 20% of all SVOD subscriptions in Europe in Q4 2016.
News categories: Dataxis, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, Market Research, Norway, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden

Digital transition drives growth in European cable
Mar 8, 2017 – The cable industry is growing, with total revenues up 4.6% year on year based on IHS statistics released by Cable Europe at the annual Cable Congress in Brussels. Revenue growth remains solid across all cable services.
News categories: Cable Europe, Manuel Kohnstamm, Matthias Kurth, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research, Subscribers

Impressive pay TV growth forecast for Asia Pacific
Mar 6, 2017 – Unlike most of the rest of the world, the Asia Pacific pay TV sector is vibrant, according to Digital TV Research. Subscribers and revenues are both forecast to rise over the next five years.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Simon Murray, Asia, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial