Cable Congress congratulates itself on numbers which suck

Cable Congress began with the usual release of numbers for the industry in Europe, always painfully focusing on the positive, and virtually ignoring the fall away in pay TV subscribers – this year’s highlight was that revenue is up 2.4% to €23.43 billion but it failed to give out figures for pay TV falls. The numbers are put together by IHS for Cable Europe and were released at the opening of Cable Congress in Dublin. If these were Netflix numbers you would not see Reed Hastings boasting about such low growth figures – he’d be apologizing. But the first graph in the presentation shows how cable is focused on past glories, not the immediate future in Europe, trying to set…