Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) has announced preliminary figures for the spread of BS Digital television as of the end of September. Since last month, the number of households with BS Digital TV reception has increased by approximately 220,000 to approximately 6.74 million.

Overall, the number of BS Digital receivers increased by  140,000 units to approximately 4.09 million.  This is composed of approximately 1.03 million BS Digital standalone tuners (approx. 10,000 units up), 1.57 million Digital Hi-Vision TVs (approx. 30,000 units up) and 1.49 million PDPs (approx. 10,000 units up) with internal tuners.

The number of households with cable TV increased to approximately 2.65 million, an increase of approximately 80,000 from last month. The number of analog subscribers decreased slightly to approximately 1.92 million (approx. 10,000 down) and the number of digital subscribers increased substantially to approximately 0.73 million (approx. 90,000 up).  Approximately 80,000 BS Digital antennas were sold.

Source: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20041012/bsd.htm [1]
News Release: http://www.nhk.or.jp/digital/news/041007/index.html [2]