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16% of Spanish pay-TV households become first-time subscribers in 2015

"First-time adoption of pay-TV is up among Spanish broadband households as is the penetration of pay TV overall," said Brett Sappington, director, research, Parks Associates and author of the report. "The Spanish pay-TV market in general has a very active, cost-conscious base of subscribers, with higher-than-average rates of downgrades and upgrades and a substantial population of cord-nevers."

From the article "16% of Spanish pay-TV households become first-time subscribers in 2015" by www.rapidtvnews.com

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