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Article: German pay TV breakthrough some way off.(Kirch group)(Brief Article)

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April 1, 2001
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Germany's Kirch group has admitted that long-sought breakthrough in German pay TV market is still at least another 18 months off. The pay platform sees 4m customers as the milestone needed to turn its fortunes on the road to profitability. In August 2000, Premiere World had 2.2m subscribers, but had shown net growth of just 300,000 customers since September 1999. Group has since stopped making its subscriber ...

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