France's CSA publishes 1H 2011 digital TV penetration survey

Monday, December 5th, 2011
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France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has reported latest results from its survey on the penetration of digital TV in French households.

At the end of June 2011, 62.6% of households had chosen digital terrestrial as their method of digital TV reception, up 2.4 percentage points since the end of 2010.

The proportion of households with pay satellite went down by 2.0% during the first half of the year.

Percentage of households with: 

                   2H 2010  1H 2011
                   -------  -------
DTT                  60.2%    62.6%
ADSL (IPTV)          23.9%    27.5%
Satellite (pay)      15.2%    13.2%
Cable                 8.2%     8.5%
Satellite (FTA)       7.2%     9.6%