Arqiva, a privately owned company headquartered in the UK, was founded in 2005 and employs approximately 1590 individuals. The company reported $869.0M in revenue as of 2024 and functions as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Arqiva provides connectivity and distribution services, operating as a supplier of national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting services in the UK, and distributes channels internationally using its managed fibre and satellite infrastructure.

Revenue

Founded

2005

Headcount

1,615

Headquarters

United Kingdom

Primary Segment

Connectivity and distribution services

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

27

News Summary:

On June 23, 2026, Arqiva welcomed the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) Green Paper "Watch this Space: A new strategic direction for UK media," emphasizing the priority for a clear and credible plan. Previously, on June 17, Arqiva detailed how SGN employs its Managed Connectivity to future-proof critical national infrastructure against disruptions, referencing events like Storm Eunice in February 2022. This followed Arqiva's call on June 11 for the maintenance of the terrestrial network, amidst UK government consideration of television distribution's future, which could impact the Freeview platform despite its funding organizations' intentions to switch it off by 2034. Earlier, on June 4, Arqiva proposed a viable, cost-effective plan to maintain digital terrestrial television until around 2045, ahead of the government's expected provisional conclusions on television distribution.

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Arqiva offers 10 products in the connectivity and cloud and media tech industries. Arqiva's product portfolio comprises of video data and analytics, video processing and playout, connectivity and distribution services, enterprise connectivity services and media managed services.
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Arqiva's revenues were less than $1B in 2024. Caretta Research has split Arqiva's revenue into 12 different product categories, the largest of which is terrestrial transmission services. For full access to Arqiva's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Arqiva's customers primarily consist of telecoms and broadcast television and radio companies. Examples of Arqiva's customers include Sky Group, BBC and NBCUniversal. Arqiva has commercial and technical partners like Irdeto, Viasat and Techex. Examples of Arqiva's suppliers include Viaccess-Orca, Skyline Communications and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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