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...He said: “Solving this conundrum is the biggest task in TV and there is no clear answer — but at least Channel 4 is being bold with its strategy.”...
...Both channels appear relevant in the data....
...The prompt for Winfrey’s soul-searching is a high-profile dispute with Walt Disney, which at the end of August pulled its TV channels from Connecticut-based Charter’s cable services after the two failed...
...He won’t be able to stop himself.” One senior News Corp insider put it plainly: “As long as he’s breathing, he’s in charge.”...
...“You don’t fight propaganda by censorship,” said Benjamin Ismail, project director at AppleCensorship.com, a free speech advocacy site. “This is a godsend for authoritarian regimes....
...Yaccarino worked with them at NBCUniversal and Turner Broadcasting respectively. Her career took off during a period of rapid change for media, beginning in the early-2000s....
...Jon Miller, who was a senior executive at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp during Thompson’s time at the BBC, said Thompson “has as good a background as could possibly be imagined”....
...But it didn’t come to bear, and now look at the downfall.”...
...In September, Hallyu will be at the centre of the first exhibition about Korea to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum since 1961. Hallyu!...
...The terms of Eurosport’s Olympics deal, which began in 2018, also differ by country, as many nations have broadcasting rules that dictate the Games must also be shown by free-to-air channels....
...“There are certainly a number of [club] presidents who don’t want these [private equity] people in and lose control.”...
...“If you look at their reasons for why you’d sell Channel 4, to me they don’t really stack up. This looks like an answer in search of a problem.”...
...“This is a clear-cut case of a takeover by a company in a clandestine manner.”...
...He never received a clear answer from AT&T, the person added. That was perhaps a sign that the deal would stretch AT&T to the limit....
...So what’s at stake? In the immediate term, if MLB and MLBPA don’t agree on a new CBA, team owners could lock out the players....
...“In many ways, Stankey was courageous to acknowledge that there were clear problems between the old and new AT&T,” says one veteran at the company....
...“We’ll see what happens at the end of [election day]. Hopefully it won’t go longer than that,” the president said....
...Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia, the largest US radio group that is attempting to claw itself out of bankruptcy....
...“Going back to the Gulf war when CNN essentially came on to the scene, we knew then at NBC that if you weren’t in the 24-hour news business globally, you weren’t really in the news business....
...This remaking of Japan Inc rests on a critical structural shift: the changing role of banks....
...The long-haired surfer has raised at least $700m from the company in recent years, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, sources have told DD....
...The Elliott letter said AT&T had failed to “articulate a clear strategic rationale” for why it needed to own Time Warner, which also owns HBO, the premium cable channel, and the Warner Brothers movie studio...
...Whilst we see COVID-19 as further accelerating online channel shift, it makes no sense to us that BooHoo’s and Zalando’s share prices today are higher than at the beginning of the year, or that Next’s share...
...However, it is clear to us that financial markets started to discount this in early October. ... Looking at 2020, extremes look unlikely to us on both growth and earnings....
...A combined Sprint/T-Mobile wouldn’t be a plucky smaller sibling to Verizon and AT&T but a coequal with the two big players....
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