Croatia TV market at end-1Q 2019

ZAGREB — The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (Hrvatska regulatorna agencija za mrežne djelatnosti – HAKOM) has reported communications market data for the country to the end of the first quarter of 2019.

Cable TV was the fastest growing segment of the TV market with households increasing by over 7% year-on-year. IPTV remains the leading pay TV platform with over 428,000 subscribers.

Television households

            1Q 2018  2Q 2018  3Q 2018  4Q 2018   1Q 2019   Share   Δ QoQ   Δ YoY
            -------  -------  -------  -------   -------  ------  ------  ------
Cable       170,299  170,473  173,949  178,244   182,416  12.32%   2.34%   7.12%
IPTV        413,283  414,459  415,441  424,389   428,764  28.96%   1.03%   3.75%
Satellite   178,549  181,351  183,432  143,806   144,143   9.74%   0.23%   3.15%(?)
Pay DTT      69,046   71,195   71,987   73,299    68,723   4.64%  -6.24%  -0.47%
FTA DTT*    649,328  643,027  635,696  660,767   656,459  44.34%  -0.65%  -4.60%

* The number of free-to-air digital terrestrial households = 1,520,026 (the number of households in the Republic of Croatia according to the 2011 census) – 2.6% (households without TV) – (number of Cable + IPTV + Satellite + Pay DTT subscribers).