ONDIGITAL NETS MORE CUSTOMERS ADDS MORE FILMS

ONIGITAL have announced that they have 896,000 customer subscribers from 16 October 2000.
The figure for the quarter ending on 30 September 2000 was 878,000 was more than double the figure of 411,000 at the same period in 1999.
ONdigital have hailed the launch of ONnet, ONdigital's internet service, as a huge success. Since ONet's launch 20,000 customers signed up.
ONdigital Chief Executive, Stuart Prebble, said: "In less than two years we have built a business with close to a million customers, and we are on track to meet the very ambitious targets we set ourselves two years ago. We've more than doubled our subscriber numbers in the last year and we believe we are in good shape to continue strong growth in the all-important last quarter of 2000."
ONrequest, their PPV joint-venture with SDN, have now added MGM to their studios, alongside Universal, Paramount and Fox.
The agreement means that films including ‘The World is not Enough’ and ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’, both starring Pierce Brosnan, will be shown on ONrequest this autumn.