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Facts and Figures
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80% of UK households have multichannel television, that's
over 20 million homes and rising. |
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Digital pay
TV channels are watched more and for longer on average than
terrestrial channels. Digital pay services are watched by 43%
of 15-34-year-olds compared to 27% in terrestrial only homes. |
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The Government
has announced its plans to completely switch off analogue television
transmission by 2012, by which time UK digital penetration will
have risen to nearly 100%. |
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Digital channels
(excluding music and shopping) broadcast a combined total of
more than 58,000 hours of originated programming in 2003: more
than half the UK’s total, and two and a half times as
much as the network output of the five main channels combined. |
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Commercial
digital channels provide a huge boost to the amount of public
service broadcasting, providing over 14,000 hours in a typical
month, with children's (6,500) and documentaries (9,500) making
up the lion's share while BBC services combined broadcast only
3,120 hours. |
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Digital channels
are particularly strong on factual PSB programming, with channels
such as the History Channel and Discovery providing a range
of quality documentary and other factual strands that account
for an extra 1,600 hours a month. |
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Digital channels
account for over 50% of viewing in multichannel homes and 76%
of children's viewing. |
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The growth
of multichannel TV in the UK is a major boost to the UK economy.
Digital channel revenues rose from £1.9bn in 1998 to £4.6bn
in 2003. |
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