Prisa loses DTH subs

Prisa TV

Prisa lost 28,350 satellite subscribers in the first quarter, ending March with a total of 1,691,281, due to the weak economy and domestic consumption.

Prisa loses DTH subs

Spain’s Prisa lost 50,785 DTH subscribers in the year to September 2012, due largely to the weak economic situation and an increase in VAT.

Prisa grows pay-TV business

Prisa TV

Spain’s Prisa ended the second quarter with 1.831million pay-TV subscribers on its Canal+ business, along with 100,209 from other operators and OTT.

Canal+ Spain improves

Canal+ Spain, the Prisa-led pay-TV operator, improved across all of its key performance indicators in the first quarter.

Canal + withdraws from Spanish premium DTT

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The Spanish Canal+ operation will withdraw from its premium digital terrestrial business, handing over its capacity to Mediaset. The broadcasters said the reason is simply not enough subscribers for Canal+ Dos.

iPlus boost to Digital+

Spanish pay-TV platform Digital+ witnessed a subscriber increase in the first quarter, driven by the success of its hybrid iPlus PVR.

Capital increase to pay for Telecinco stake in Digital+

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Spanish broadcaster Telecinco has launched a €499 million rights issue to fund its purchase of a 22% stake in Prisa’s Digital+ satellite pay-TV platform.

Digital+ takes another battering

Troubled Spanish DTH platform Digital+ continues to haemorrhage subscribers. In an eight-month financial report by majority owners Prisa, the company said its subscriber base as of August 31, 2010 was 1,760,320, some 24,523 short of the June 2010 figure, and a loss of 85,485 so far this year.

Sogecable makes €90m football payment

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Sogecable will continue to meet all of its contractual obligations in the transmission of live coverage from the Spanish football league, according to Ignacio Polanco, president of the pay-TV operator’s largest shareholder Prisa.

Pressure mounts on Digital+

Troubled Spanish DTH platform Digital+ continued to haemorrhage subscribers in the first quarter.