Broadcast Engineering (unsigned) reports:
... Speaking after a presentation in November at a high-definition technology summit in Los Angeles, Mike Paxton, In-Stat senior analyst for the Converging Markets & Technologies Group, said his research indicates about 19 percent of the U.S. television households that own an HDTV set and receive high-definition programming do so via over-the-air broadcast. That percentage is a bit higher than the 13 percent of the 111.4 million TV households in the United States that rely on terrestrial broadcast, he said. ¶ However, Paxton’s research indicates that only about 9.8 million television households in the United States are “HD programming” households and actually receive high-definition programming via broadcast, cable, satellite or IPTV. That number is only about 40 percent of the roughly 25 million U.S. households that own HDTV sets, he said. ...
Link: Broadcast Engineering. Thanks to Bob Miller for the tip. Read his comments on this article on the OpenDTV list.
See also my post, Estimating TV over-the-air households, from 16 Dec. 2006 for some preliminary thoughts on the economic value of this. Like most OTA estimates I see, the In-Stat number above evidentally fails to account for the dual wired cable+ADS subscribers, now about 1% of TVHH, so the true OTA number should be 14%. --Dennis
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