Both BARB and Gfk have issued their monthly dish ownership figures – both of which show a slowdown in dish as well as cable connections.
BARB data for the month to the first of August estimated that 2.501m homes now have satellite dishes – up 24,000 on last month and 204,000 on January 1993. BARB cable estimates put cable homes at 680,000 – only 6,000 up on the July figure. Gfk data for the month as at 26/6 puts dish ownership at 2.228m – an increase of 27,000 on May. Gfk data does not cover N.I, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man – but when this is taken into consideration Gfk is consistent with BARB.
UK SATELLITE DISH/CABLE OWNERSHIP
| BARB | GfK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dish | SMATV | Tot | Dish* | |
| 1993 | Cable | |||
| Jan | 2297 | 90 | 625 | 2059 |
| Feb | 2323 | 90 | 636 | 2098 |
| Mar | 2333 | 90 | 644 | 2150 |
| Apr | 2380 | 90 | 679 | 2198 |
| May | 2405 | 90 | 687 | 2201 |
| Jun | 2438 | 90 | 694 | 2228 |
| Jul | 2477 | 90 | 674 | – |
| Aug | 2501 | 90 | 680 | – |
*Gfk data does not incl. N.I., Isle of Man or the Channel Islands
