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Between one million and 1.5 million UK homes will subscribe to two or more pay-TV providers by the middle of 2014, according to Deloitte.
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Sky IQ, a subsidiary of BSkyB specialising in TV viewing behaviours, reveals its industry predictions for the year ahead.
