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Pay-TV Business Planning

 
Introduction
Overview
Free Samples
Table of Contents
Who Should Buy?
The Author
Reviews
Executive Summary
Pay-TV Economics
Managing Pay-TV
The Business of Pay-TV channels
Pay-TV Channels
Appendices
List of Charts and Tables
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 

Success factors

Report objectives & Structure

Content 1
PAY-TV ECONOMICS
 

Channel closures

Television Economics

The characteristics of broadcasting

Economies of Scale & Scope

Pay-TV Structure and the Value Chain

Strategic issues in pay television

Key Success Factors

Content

Sport & Movies

Distribution

Marketing

Driving Forces

Market demographics

Market environment

Competitive environment

Channel perspective

Technology

New digital services

Telephony & broadband

Personalised TV

Globalisation & convergence

Regulation

The future

Channels and TV programming

Content 2
MANAGING PAY-TV
 

Launching a new channel

Key factors: Content & distribution

Business Plan

Alternative business models

Pay TV Market

Basic subscription channel

Free-to-air channels

Premium channels

Pay-Per-View

Interactive

Finance

Content

Localisation of services

Promotions and presentation

Distribution

UK carriage deals

European Satellites

European Platforms

Carriage criteria

The Process

Key players in broadcast services

Playout

Advertising inserts

Foreign feeds

Sky Conditional access

Interactivity

Financial returns

Marketing

Branding and Positioning

Marketing strategy

Distributor Marketing

Regulation

UK Regulation

European cross-media ownership regulation

EU Regulation

Content 3
THE BUSINESS OF PAY-TV CHANNELS
 

Revenue streams

Subscription

Advertising

Other revenues

Costs

Content

Distribution

Marketing

Administration and staff

Total costs

Revenues

Carriage fees

Premium channels

Advertising & Sponsorship

Sponsorship

Other revenues sources

Total revenues

European revenues

Model business plan

Content 4
PAY-TV CHANNELS
 

Premium channels

Artsworld

FilmFour

Basic pay channels

Discovery Europe

Fox Kids

Hallmark

Music channels - MTV

UKTV/ Flextech

Health channels - Channel Health Appendices

Appendices
 

1.   BSkyB Conditional Access charges and conditions

2.   UK licensing & legislation

ITC Licence Documents & Application Forms

ITC Codes & Guidance Notes

ITC Programme Code

ITC Advertising Standards Code

ITC Code of Programme Sponsorship

ITC Rules on Amount and Scheduling of Advertising

3.   European legislation

Television Without Frontiers Directive

ITC Notes on European legislation

4.  Glossary

 
TABLES AND CHARTS