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Pay TV In Europe Faces First-Ever Subscriber Decline
- The Hollywood Reporter, Monday, February 25, 2013 3:08 PM
Is cord-cutting coming to Europe? "The number of pay TV subscribers in Western Europe dropped by 384,000 last year, the first decline since the launch of the industry in the 1980s, according to research firm Informa," writes Georg Szalai. But an Informa manager "said the driver of the 2012 decline was not so much online competition [as] the weak economy."
