43.9% of French TV households have TV-over-ADSL

France’s Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has reported the latest results from its survey on the penetration of audiovisual equipment in French households.

Highlights for the first half of 2014:

• The number of homes with a television declined slightly for the second time in a row, with 96.7% of households having at least one TV, down 1.4 percentage points year-on-year. The TV remains the most popular screen in French homes, ahead of the PC (80.3% penetration), smartphone (59.3% of people over 15 years of age) and tablets (32% penetration).

• DTT remains the most common TV reception mode, being available in 59.1% of TV households, up 1.2 percentage points since the beginning of the year. 43.9% of TV households have TV-over-ADSL, 24.7% have satellite and 8.4% have cable TV.

• Fewer than one in three households are reliant only on DTT reception, down 4 percentage points over the survey period.

• DTT reception equipment, either via an integrated digital TV or a set-top box, is present in 73.5% of homes.