Quiero Television
Digital Terrestrial Television services | |
| Founded | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Defunct | April 2002 |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Headquarters | Spain |
Quiero Televisión 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
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
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
- ^ 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.