The television market in 2016 shows clear signs of recovery after a period of stagnation and profound crisis in the industry. Total revenues have increased thanks to additional revenue from licence fees, the growth of advertising and the slight recovery of the pay TV after a year of recession, mainly due to broadband offers.

The advertisement shows encouraging signs of recovery after a long period of recession and stagnation, thanks to a series of factors: the recovery of generalist channels (in particular Rai), thanks to the great attraction and popularity as the Olympics and European Football Championship events ; a better quality offer, also due to increased competition and consolidation of major international operators in the thematic channels markets on DTT; strong growth of online revenues. All this has resulted in a growth rate of around 6% in 2016, which allowed this resource to reach nearly 40% of total revenues, overtaking the pay-TV.

In 2016 the total market grew by a total of € 404 million, at a rate of over 5% compared to 2015.

Is this a permanent or temporary recovery? ITMedia Consulting's Report on "The Television Market in Italy: 2016-2018" will address this crucial question.

The new report is analyzing the new scenario, outlining with data, tables and charts, the changes that will take place in the next three years. The report provides growth forecasts for the overall market as well as individual resources (license fee, advertising and subscriptions), for different platforms (terrestrial, satellite, Broadband TV), and the market shares of the main players in Italy (RAI, Mediaset, Sky).

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• The Tv market will grow again moderately starting from the second half of 2015, but it wlil not reach the 2008 value.
• After another negative perfomance in 2014, advertising will start catching up in 2015, and will compete as primary market resource, with a 40% share.
• There's a growing awarness of the multichannel offer among the Italian consumers. Digital terrestrial Tv proves itself as the main consumption platform, but while traditional Tv is still prevalent, it starts perceiving the development of new consumption models for linear and not linear content.
• According to ITMedia Consulting, this follows growing competion resulting from the diffusion of broadband as for content distribution, and in the coming years will involve the pay Tv sector more considerably.

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• In 2015, the TV market shows the first signs of recovery after a long period of recession: total earnings have slightly grown of 0,6% from the previous year.
• The diffusion of platforms, after years of stagnation, is starting to change: Broadband TV will triple its accesses and will become the primary modality in 900.000 homes compared to the actual 300.000.
  
• In 2016 total earnings will still be growing and by the end of 2017 the market will reach €7,9 billion, at a annual average of +1,8% over the period considered.
  
• Advertising is still suffering the lingering conjunctural effects: though growing, the CAGR will be limited to +0,95%, driven primarily by the thematic channels.
  
• The pay-TV segment, despite the expected decline for DTH satellite, will increase in the considered period by +3,45%, thanks to the development of DTT offer and especially of Broadband TV.
• Mediaset, Rai and Sky Italia account almost for the entire market, with a combined share of 94%, that will decrease by 1 percentage point in 2017 as a result of the development of Broadband TV players.
• In advertising Mediaset will remain the main operator, with over half of the revenues.
  
• In the pay-TV segment Sky still keeps its leadership, even if showing a clear decreasing trend, shifting from 80% to 72% of the market.  Mediaset Premium is growing, as well as the Other Operators component, driven by broadband TV and VOD.

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• Despite the economic downturn, the Italian TV market is still dynamic, and so it will be in the coming years
• The switchover to digital TV has been completed, and now the market share of the digital terrestrial TV is decreasing to the advantage of the broadband TV
• In 2013 the TV market is still in recession and records a 4% reduction of resources. In the following two years it will start its recovery, but as a whole it will be under the 2008 value
• The recovery of the market will depend on the overall economic circumstance. Advertising will not recover from the losses accumulated in 2012, but starting from 2014 it will grow again at a 3.7% average rate.
• Pay TV keeps on the slowly descending path, but from 2015 it will grow again, thanks to the broadband TV offers (over the top)
• Even with a reduction of the investments, advertising will be the most prominent resource again starting from 2014
• There is an overall resource transfer to Other Players, mainly thanks to the new broadband services and to the development of thematic channels on the digital terrestrial television

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