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Pay Television, Pay-per-view, Video-on-demand and Specialty Services
Statistical and Financial Summaries
2004 - 2008
Industry Analysis
Policy Development and Research Sector
Table of Contents
Notice to Reader
Foreword
Pay, PPV, VOD & Specialty Services - Total
Specialty Services - Total
Analog Specialty Programming Services
Category 1 Digital Specialty Programming Services
Category 2 Digital Specialty Programming Services
Pay Services Include all Pay Television, Pay-per-view and Video-on-demand - Total
Financial Summary - Pay Television, Pay-per-View, Video-on-demand and Specialty Services
Programming and Production Expenses
All Pay, Pay-per-view, Video-on-Demand and Specialty Services
Specialty Services
Analog Specialty Services
Category 1 digital Specialty Services
Category 2 digital Specialty Services
Pay Television, Pay-per-view and Video-on-Demand Services
Notice to Reader
The information provided in this publication reflects a compilation of annual returns data for the pay, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and specialty services sector.
Information is also provided for Canadian programming expenditures as is applicable to the majority of licensees in the sector. This information, however, is not sufficient to allow a proper evaluation of conditions of licence with respect to Canadian program expenditures, as may be required of licensees in this sector. This is due to the fact that conditions of licence, as applies to this particular sector, may take into account financial information which is not captured by financial statements. For comprehensive details on an individual licensee’s conditions of licence, please consult the applicable CRTC licensing decision on our website.
Foreword
Introduction
This report presents statistical and financial information on the licensed pay, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and specialty services providers. Revenue earned by Cable operators and affiliation payments paid to them by the Pay and Specialty Services providers may be found in the "Broadcast Distribution" summary report.
Data contained in this report are subject to change as the Commission receives additonal or revised information.
Limitation on data collected
The Financial Summary for Pay and Specialty Services for the broadcast year ended 31 August 2008 represents 182 individual pay, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and specialty services. During the year, 12 newly licensed services commenced operations and 2 previously licensed services ceased operation. This report does not include financial and statistical data for 7 services that are not in compliance with their conditions of licence. These 7 services represent less than 0.3% of the total pay and specialty services revenue for the broadcast year 2007. No estimates or projections of the operating results of these 7 services have been included for 2008.
Services not in compliance with their conditions of licence are identified in the publication of individual service statistical and financial summaries.
