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Article: Slovakia television profile: an industry still finding its way.(Focus)
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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* Nearly 40 percent of households in Slovakia receive pay TV services
* Digital cable is relatively new and the market remains underdeveloped
* DTT trials have begun but the date of a commercial launch has not been confirmed
* After 12 years UPC Direct, the DTH satellite operator, has achieved only 0.8 per cent penetration
Until 1989 all forms of mass media in the former Czechoslovakia were controlled by the communist government. The country itself split peacefully in 1993 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Total pay TV penetration at the end of 2005 stood at around 40 per cent of television households and consists almost entirely ...