Quiero Television

Quiero Television
Industry	Digital Terrestrial Television services
Founded	2000 ; 24 years ago
Defunct	April 2002
Fate	Bankruptcy
Headquarters	Spain

Quiero Television SA , commonly known as Quiero TV (Spanish for "I-Want TV"), was a pay television service over digital terrestrial television (TDT) in Spain in the early years of the digital television transition . It launched in 2000, ^[1]

Quiero TV received its digital television license in 1999, and operated from 2000 to 2002, with 14 channels, at a time when the only other digital terrestrial channels were TVE 1 and La 2 , the two main channels of Spain's public broadcaster. ^[1] Quiero TV was 49% owned by Auna/ Retevision ; ^[2] other investors included Planeta of Spain, Carlton Communications of the UK, and the MediaPark investment firm of Catalonia . ^[3]

Having to compete aggressively with satellite and cable for the pay TV market, Quiero TV provided set-top boxes and antenna servicing to subscribers. Expenses ended up being far higher than planned. By early 2001, Quiero had 200,000 subscribers, but afterwards, customer counts decreased. ^[1] Losing 24 million euros a month, and failing to find anyone to buy the company, it shut down in April 2002, having lost around 600 million euros total. ^[3] Another Carlton pay television service, ITV Digital in the United Kingdom, also shut down a month later.

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c Suarez Candel, Roberto. "DTV in Spain". In Van den Broeck, Wendy; Pierson, Jo (eds.). Digital Television in Europe . Brussels: VUBpress. pp. 199?200. ISBN 9789054875413 .
^ "Quiero TV may be shut down, says Auna CFO" . telecompaper . Houten : Telecom.paper BV. 8 April 2002 . Retrieved 2012-12-09 .
^ ^a ^b "Quiero DTT service falls under debt burden.(digital terrestrial television company shuts down)" . Screen Digest . April 1, 2002. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 . Retrieved 2012-12-09 .

[suarez-1] Suarez Candel, Roberto. "DTV in Spain". In Van den Broeck, Wendy; Pierson, Jo (eds.). Digital Television in Europe . Brussels: VUBpress. pp. 199?200. ISBN 9789054875413 .

[2] "Quiero TV may be shut down, says Auna CFO" . telecompaper . Houten : Telecom.paper BV. 8 April 2002 . Retrieved 2012-12-09 .

[sd-falls-3] "Quiero DTT service falls under debt burden.(digital terrestrial television company shuts down)" . Screen Digest . April 1, 2002. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 . Retrieved 2012-12-09 .

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