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Pay television

Quality:

Subscription television - subscription-based television services. Article “Pay television” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Pay television”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 837 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 84 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9762 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2398 in November 2008
  • Global: #9975 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #16018 in December 2009
  • Global: #37804 in July 2021

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Pay television
33.1293
2Indonesian (id)
Televisi berlangganan
29.1203
3Russian (ru)
Платное телевидение
27.0528
4Basque (eu)
Ordainpeko telebista
26.3835
5German (de)
Pay-TV
25.9563
6Portuguese (pt)
Televisão por assinatura
25.2807
7Swedish (sv)
Betal-TV
24.31
8Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
22.6887
9Tamil (ta)
கட்டணத் தொலைக்காட்சி
22.316
10French (fr)
Télévision payante
19.9783
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Pay television" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Pay television
2 680 369
2Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
741 093
3Portuguese (pt)
Televisão por assinatura
723 451
4German (de)
Pay-TV
525 055
5Italian (it)
Pay TV
303 212
6Indonesian (id)
Televisi berlangganan
194 458
7French (fr)
Télévision payante
113 301
8Chinese (zh)
付费电视
60 698
9Finnish (fi)
Maksutelevisio
38 200
10Arabic (ar)
تلفزيون مدفوع
36 080
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Pay television" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Pay television
11 814
2Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
2 408
3Portuguese (pt)
Televisão por assinatura
2 127
4Italian (it)
Pay TV
677
5German (de)
Pay-TV
615
6Indonesian (id)
Televisi berlangganan
494
7French (fr)
Télévision payante
412
8Arabic (ar)
تلفزيون مدفوع
378
9Russian (ru)
Платное телевидение
253
10Chinese (zh)
付费电视
224
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Pay television" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Pay television
281
2German (de)
Pay-TV
118
3Portuguese (pt)
Televisão por assinatura
91
4Italian (it)
Pay TV
70
5Indonesian (id)
Televisi berlangganan
42
6Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
38
7Chinese (zh)
付费电视
30
8Finnish (fi)
Maksutelevisio
27
9French (fr)
Télévision payante
25
10Dutch (nl)
Betaaltelevisie
19
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Pay television" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Persian (fa)
تلویزیون پولی
1
2Italian (it)
Pay TV
1
3Arabic (ar)
تلفزيون مدفوع
0
4Catalan (ca)
Televisió de pagament
0
5German (de)
Pay-TV
0
6English (en)
Pay television
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Pagata televido
0
8Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
0
9Basque (eu)
Ordainpeko telebista
0
10Finnish (fi)
Maksutelevisio
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Pay television" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Pay television
2 735
2German (de)
Pay-TV
1 541
3Portuguese (pt)
Televisão por assinatura
1 395
4Spanish (es)
Televisión por suscripción
1 219
5Italian (it)
Pay TV
997
6Chinese (zh)
付费电视
302
7French (fr)
Télévision payante
292
8Indonesian (id)
Televisi berlangganan
287
9Persian (fa)
تلویزیون پولی
141
10Malay (ms)
Televisyen berbayar
122
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تلفزيون مدفوع
caCatalan
Televisió de pagament
deGerman
Pay-TV
enEnglish
Pay television
eoEsperanto
Pagata televido
esSpanish
Televisión por suscripción
euBasque
Ordainpeko telebista
faPersian
تلویزیون پولی
fiFinnish
Maksutelevisio
frFrench
Télévision payante
idIndonesian
Televisi berlangganan
itItalian
Pay TV
msMalay
Televisyen berbayar
nlDutch
Betaaltelevisie
noNorwegian
Betal-TV
plPolish
Płatna telewizja
ptPortuguese
Televisão por assinatura
ruRussian
Платное телевидение
simpleSimple English
Pay television
srSerbian
Претплатничка телевизија
svSwedish
Betal-TV
taTamil
கட்டணத் தொலைக்காட்சி
trTurkish
Pay-TV
viVietnamese
Truyền hình trả tiền
zhChinese
付费电视

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#16018
12.2009
Global:
#37804
07.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2398
11.2008
Global:
#9975
02.2004

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Subscription television from Wikipedia articles about HBO, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Showtime and The Weather Channel. Whereas reading the article about Subscription television people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Subscription business model, Pay-per-view, Television, HBO and List of cable television companies.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

de: Pay-TV
it: Pay TV
tr: Pay-TV

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