Go To Latest Video ReviewsSky+HD Reaches One Million Households
| Author | Hugo Jobling |
| Published | 30th Apr 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersYou know that we like Sky+HD, but you probably didn't know that over one million other UK denizens agree. After 'record sales for the first three months of 2009' Sky has breached the one million Sky+HD subscribers mark, up from around 465k the same timer last year.
Sky's total install base grew to an impressive 9.3 million subscribers - up 43 per cent form last year, with around five million of those taking Sky+ and 15 percent, or 1.4 million Sky customers, also taking their broadband and telephone service from Sky.
Those figures in mind, it's not surprising that Sky had a decent quarter finically, with reported revenue up seven per cent at a touch under £4 billion and reported profit up 23 per cent to £622 million. Thanks to that performance, Sky reduced its net debt from £1.9 to £1.67 billion.
It's a good thing for Sky that the HDTV viewing public were apparently undaunted by reports of Sky+HD box failures…
Sky One Million Sky+HD Subscribers press release
Sky financial results (PDF).
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Hugo said on 30th April 2009
ruthless said on 30th April 2009
Still a lot of money in my book.
In France they've got four terrestrial HD channels - why not here?
Alex.rar said on 30th April 2009
wow 3.5 - Virgin isnt doing to well then!
Pbryanw said on 30th April 2009
I wonder how many of those 3.5 million Virgin subscribers are on the premium V+ service? One thing's for certain, one million is a lot of HD subscribers.
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IIRC Virgin Media has about about 3.5 million TV subscribers.