British Sky Broadcasting announced that it does uans you date an increase of 40.000 new subscribers in the first trimester of the year but it is not capable of attracting numerous clients who left this platform rivals signed to others company

The principal BSkyB competitor is with complete certainty the company operator of cable American NTL, which operates principally in Great Britain and which adds up approximately 5 million subscribers, while the first one overcomes 8 millions.

Only 40.000 subscribers signed up to the wide offer of channels of the company controlled by News Corp, the hólding of the magante Rupert Murdoch. This number is considered to be a fall if we compare it with 95.000 subscribers that it managed to add BSkyB in the same period of last year, of January to March, 2005.

The analysts consider these results to be disappointing, far from the forecasts, what ratifies a deceleration in the good BSkyB march.

BSkB (Sky Digital) adds up now 8.450.000 subscribers, being the indisputable leader in Europe on the market of the television of payment with the clearest advantage on the German Premiere, with something more about 3 million and a half subscribers.

BSkB expresses his wide offer of channels of television, almost half a thousand, across the position of 28,2nd East of the satellites Astra.


(23/05/06)