Malta pay TV subscriptions up 6.6k in 4Q09

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Malta’s National Statistics Office (NSO) has published Post and Telecommunications numbers for the fourth quarter of 2009.

Pay TV subscription index increased by 5.0 per cent when compared to 2008. Analogue and digital television subscriptions were recorded at 97.9 per cent of households. Digital subscriptions amounted to 79.4 per cent of the overall subscriptions, an increase of 31.4 per cent with respect to 2008. This increase was accompanied by another significant drop of 40.8 per cent in analogue TV subscriptions.

Analogue and digital TV – Pay TV Boadcasting subscriptions

                                  As at end  As at end December   Absolute          %  
                                  September  ------------------     change     change
                                       2009      2008      2009  2009/2008  2009/2008
                                  ---------  --------  --------  ---------  ---------
Total                               138,700   132,632   139,336      6,704        5.1
 Analogue                            34,647    48,448    28,677    -19,771      -40.8
 Digital (cable and terrestrial)    104,053    84,184   110,659     26,475       31.4

Subscriptions per 100 households:

                                                                       Q4
                                 ----------------------------------------
                                 2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009
                                 ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----
Analogue and Digital television  72.3  72.9  73.5  80.2  84.6  93.2  97.9

More: Post and Telecommunications: Q4/2009