This statistic presents a ranking of countries with the highest pay TV penetration rate in Europe in 2015. In 2015, the Netherlands were the country with the highest pay television penetration of all European countries considered, with **** percent of households being subscribed to pay TV services that year. Belgium and Norway had the second and third highest penetration rate for pay TV, at ** percent and **** percent respectively. In Europe, the leading pay TV operators based on number of subscribers were Liberty Global, with nearly ** million subscriptions, and Sky Europe, with roughly **** million subscriptions, as of 2014. Pay TV revenues in Western Europe amounted to million U.S. dollars in 2015. According to a forecast, revenues will remain relatively stable and decrease only slightly to million U.S. dollars by 2021.
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