Spain’s pay-TV is slowly increasing, with IPTV leading the growth in terms of subscribers.

The latest report from the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) reveals that in the first quarter of 2010 pay-TV reached 4.46 million subscribers against 4.2 million the same period the previous year. IPTV registered the highest growth adding over 100,000 subscribers, from 711,000 to 823,000. Mobile TV was second in capturing pay TV subscribers going from 277,393 to 362,000. Cable TV grew by 22,000 subscribers, from 1,269,000 to 1,291,000 with satellite TV losing around 200,000 clients, from 2,001,295 to 1,798,845.

By companies, Telefonica captured 30,000 new clients to 732,000 and pay DTT service Gol TV, 43,000 new clients up to 190,499, in comparison with the last quarter of 2009. Sogecable and ONO did it not very well as they lost 47,000 and 5,000 subscribers, respectively.

Overall, according to CMT, total audiovisual revenues amounted to E1.527 billion against E1.715 billion in the last quarter of 2009. Ad revenues reached E621.8 million, down E11 million compared with the same period last year. Pay TV fees stood at E342 million, similar to E341 in the first quarter of 2009, with pay-per-view revenues going down, though, to E20.8 million against E61.1 in 2009. Satellite TV earned E263 million against E390 in the first quarter of 2009, cable TV E73 million against E76 million, terrestrial TV E553 million against E578 million in 2009 and Mobile TV E3.7 million against E4.3 million in the last quarter of 2009.

Source: www.advanced-television.com