Top LatAm pay TV operators continue to dominate
Latin American pay TV is dominated by DirecTV/Sky and Claro/America Movil,
which will together account for nearly half the region’s pay TV subs by end-2016,
according to a new report from Digital TV Research. This share will be maintained
for the next five years. Three more pan-regional operators, Telefonica/Movistar,
Tigo/Millicom and Liberty Global, harbor ambitions to increase their regional market
shares.
Top five Latin American pay TV operators by subscribers (000)
Ranking
Operator
Country
Pan-regional
20,221
1
2
DirecTV Latin
America/Sky
Claro
Pan-regional
15,209
3
Telefonica/Movistar
Pan-regional
4
Televisa Cable
Mexico
5
Cablevision
Argentina
1
2016
Ranking
Operator
Country
2021
Pan-regional
23,286
2
DirecTV Latin
America/Sky
Claro
Pan-regional
17,719
4,814
3
Telefonica/Movistar
Pan-regional
6,501
4,294
4
Cablevision
Argentina
3,832
3,417
5
Dish
Mexico
3,662
Source: Digital TV Research. Note: paying subscribers only
With 130 platforms across 18 countries covered in the Latin America Pay TV
Operator Forecasts report, 25 operators will collectively generate 88% of Latin
American pay TV subscribers by end-2016 – again this share will be maintained
until the end of the forecast period. The regional pay TV subscriber total will climb
from 72.02 million by end-2016 to 83.56 million by 2021.
There are some sizeable domestic players beyond the pan-regional players.
Argentina’s Cablevision (which also has operations in neighboring Uruguay) will
climb to fourth place by 2021. Mexico’s Televisa has merged its cable operations
into a single entity. The company is also the majority owner of the Sky satellite TV
platform.
The 25 featured operators will continue with their 90%+ share of Latin American
pay TV revenues for the next five years. DirecTV/Sky and Claro together will take
62% of the 2016 total, although this share will fall slightly by 2021. Latin American
pay TV revenues will grow from $18.31 billion in 2016 to $19.82 billion by 2021.
For more information on the Latin America Pay TV Operator Forecasts report,
please contact: Simon Murray, [email protected], Tel: +44 20 8248
5051
Latin America Pay TV Operator Forecasts
Table of Contents
Published in August 2016, this 134-page electronically-delivered report comes in
two parts:
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A 96-page PDF giving an executive summary, operator analysis, countryby-country analysis and forecasts.
An excel workbook giving comparison tables and country-by-country
forecasts in detail for 25 operators with 130 platforms across 18 territories
for every year from 2010 to 2021.
Forecasts (2010-2021) contain the following detail for 18 countries:
By country:
TV households
Digital cable subs
Analog cable subs
Pay IPTV subscribers
Pay digital satellite TV subs
Pay DTT homes
Total pay TV subscribers
Pay TV revenues
By operator (and by platform by operator):
Pay TV subscribers
Share of pay TV subscribers by operator
Subscription & VOD revenues
Share of pay TV revenues by operator
ARPU
Countries and operators covered in the forecasts:
Country
Operators
Argentina
Cablevision; Supercanal; DirecTV
Bolivia
DirecTV, Tigo, Entel
Brazil
Claro; GVT; Vivo; Sky; Oi
Chile
VTR; Telefonica; Claro; DirecTV; Entel; Telsur
Colombia
Claro; UNE/Millicom; DirecTV; Movistar
Costa Rica
Claro; Tigo; Sky; Cabletica
Ecuador
DirecTV; Claro; CNT; TV Cable/Sistema
El Salvador
Claro; Tigo; Sky
Guatemala
Claro; Tigo; Sky
Honduras
Claro; Tigo; Sky
Mexico
Nicaragua
Megacable; Cablemas; Izzi; Cablecom; TVI; Televisa Cable; Sky; Dish; Axtel;
TotalPlay
Claro; Tigo; Sky
Panama
Claro; CWC; Sky
Paraguay
Claro; Tigo; DirecTV
Peru
Telefonica; Claro; DirecTV
Puerto Rico
Liberty; Claro; DirecTV; Dish
Uruguay
Cablevision; DirecTV
Venezuela
Intercable; DirecTV; Movistar; CANTV
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Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa Forecasts
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Digital TV Latin America Forecasts
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Digital TV World Household Forecasts
Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts
Digital TV World Databook
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