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Astra 2 D Reception Southern Europe
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<blockquote data-quote="dxsat" data-source="post: 427275" data-attributes="member: 193607"><p>Numbers:</p><p>It's been estimated that around 1 million of Sky's subscribers are out of the UK. There are 750,000 Britons in Spain alone. A very large proportion of these will have Sky subscriptions, (Take a look at Spanish domestic TV if you doubt this) they will very often have the full Sky package, as the channels on the south beams such as Sports and UK Gold are the easiest to receive. The channels with the maximum revenue potential are all on the south beam, which is the one used to activate subscriptions. Here in Madrid a Sky sub can be activated using a 60 cm dish.</p><p>If you take an average of the cheapest sub (now £17) and the most expensive, (£45) you get an average monthly figure of £31. Multiply this by one million, and then by twelve, and you will see why Sky tolerates mainland European customers and nothing will ever be done to cut them off.</p><p></p><p>Analoguesat is right, however, on the likely evolution of satellites. Beams will get more tightly focussed. Broadcasters will demand this so as to get the best rates from large vendors of programming. Someone may even find a way of masking out a beam to match a country's shape, enabling smaller dishes and frequency re- use in non- adjacent territories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dxsat, post: 427275, member: 193607"] Numbers: It's been estimated that around 1 million of Sky's subscribers are out of the UK. There are 750,000 Britons in Spain alone. A very large proportion of these will have Sky subscriptions, (Take a look at Spanish domestic TV if you doubt this) they will very often have the full Sky package, as the channels on the south beams such as Sports and UK Gold are the easiest to receive. The channels with the maximum revenue potential are all on the south beam, which is the one used to activate subscriptions. Here in Madrid a Sky sub can be activated using a 60 cm dish. If you take an average of the cheapest sub (now £17) and the most expensive, (£45) you get an average monthly figure of £31. Multiply this by one million, and then by twelve, and you will see why Sky tolerates mainland European customers and nothing will ever be done to cut them off. Analoguesat is right, however, on the likely evolution of satellites. Beams will get more tightly focussed. Broadcasters will demand this so as to get the best rates from large vendors of programming. Someone may even find a way of masking out a beam to match a country's shape, enabling smaller dishes and frequency re- use in non- adjacent territories. [/QUOTE]
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