A bumper Christmas for digital TV

The BBC reports that Christmas has been good for digital TV, with an additional 192,000 satellite subscribers in the three months to December 2004 for Sky (its best performance for two years) and Freeview now being received in nearly 5 million UK homes. By the end of the year they are expected to be neck-and-neck with nearly 8 million viewers each. In 2004, for the first time, viewers spent more time watching digital, cable and satellite channels than either of the two most popular channels, BBC One and ITV1. This has had a knock-on effect on PVRs, with Sky+ and Freeview PVRs seeing increases in sales.