Dish TV India sees revenues, subs rise in Q3


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 04 February 2016




Essel Group-owned Dish TV India has reported consolidated operating revenues of INR7.715 billion for the third quarter in fiscal 2016, up 11.8% year-on-year.


India’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) operator also posted subscription revenues of INR7.1 billion, up 12.6% year-on-year. Dish TV added 317,000 net subscribers in the quarter ended 31 December 2015, taking its subscriber base on that date to 14 million.

This is the fourth consecutive quarter that Dish TV has reported growth across key financial and operational parameters including operating revenues, profit after tax and subscription figures.

“We continued to build our pan-India reach during the quarter. However, as expected, despite analogue sunset there was no real spike in consumer demand from Phase 3 markets [in the nationwide cable TV digitisation programme] thus making it an ordinary quarter from that perspective. Later, changing gears to align with the current industry trend, we tweaked our subscription packages to a more versatile and seemingly economical offering,” said Jawahar Goel, managing director, Dish TV India.

“Mandatory digitisation, however, is expected to pick up speed and our key focus going forward would be to gain market share both in terms of subscribers and profitability.”

Dish TV has enriched its high definition (HD) satellite TV bouquet during the quarter with the addition of new HD channels taking the total HD channel count to 50, which it claims to be the most of any pay-TV provider in India.