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Satellite's Worldwide High
TV channel broadcasting continues to drive the satellite industry to new revenue highs, note Euroconsult analysts in a new report. Despite economic turmoil across the past two years, Euroconsult says the industry grew both in terms of transponder demand (+5.3%) and revenues reaching $10.3 billion revenue in 2009. The broadcast of TV channels accounted for half of that revenue increase with the fastest growth (minus DIRECTV and DISH in the U.S.) coming from Latin America.
Says Euroconsult's soon-to-be-released “Satellite Communications & Broadcasting Markets Survey, Forecasts to 2019,” the global market value of capacity used for the traditional FSS market will reach around $14.8 billion in 2019, or $18.8 billion when including the wholesale market value of capacity used through emerging BBS systems dedicated to broadband traffic. That's an upward revision from previous forecasts.
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