UK leads Europe in number of Catch Up TV services

Throughout Europe it seems that the UK loves online tv the most or at least are adopting it the quickest. The UK has the biggest number of Catch up TV or VOD services at the end of December last year, according to a new study published by The European Audiovisual Observatory.

The Video on Demand and Catch Up TV in Europe study identified that the UK had more services than any other European country, followed by France with 106 services and Italy with 93. In total 696 services from 366 providers were found to be fully operational in Europe at the end of 2008. More than half these services were delivered via the internet, 30% on a DSL network (in the IPTV mode), 7% on cable and less than 3% by satellite say the report.

The Observatory’s survey did not take into account the tv services distributed on mobile phones or websites that were entirely devoted to the supply of information, trailers or adult content. Also not included were the channels set up by commercial undertakings in the context of video sharing sites such as YouTube or Dailymotion.

The Observatory said that the number of new services has not stopped growing in 2009 and guessed that there are currently over 700 Catch up TV services currently operating within Europe.

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