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Maggy 01-02-2012 17:48
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35373380)
Yes, but if there was phone (and other forms) hacking at News International, they it is likely it would happen at Sky News as well, they sholud investigate TV News as well as Newspapers and Magazines

Remember Sky News shares resources with Fox News and they are both owned by the same company
Sigh! There is no need for an investigation unless there is any evidence.So far none has emerged that ANY of the broadcasters of news in the UK are guilty of any crime.It must also be reiterated that there are really strong regulatory bodies to oversee broadcasting far stronger and with real teeth than the PCC.

The broaccasting regulators have given evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and to Parliamentary select committees on this issue.

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 08:48
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35373590)
Sigh! There is no need for an investigation unless there is any evidence.So far none has emerged that ANY of the broadcasters of news in the UK are guilty of any crime.It must also be reiterated that there are really strong regulatory bodies to oversee broadcasting far stronger and with real teeth than the PCC.

The broaccasting regulators have given evidence to the Leveson Inquiry and to Parliamentary select committees on this issue.
You mean Ofcom, who are no more then a arm of BSkyB

denphone 02-02-2012 08:54
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...The-Times.html

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Police investiagating allegations of email hacking at The Times
The Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations of email hacking at the Times Newspaper, sources have revealed.
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It is understood the investigation relates to claims that a former reporter at the Murdoch owned newspaper hacked into the emails of an anonymous police blogger.

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 08:57
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35373892)
Oh god, now the Times, how could they fall so low, then again they are part of News Corp!

Maggy 02-02-2012 09:53
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35373886)
You mean Ofcom, who are no more then a arm of BSkyB
Actually Ofcom have done far more in standing up to Murdoch's empire than the PCC or Government IF you had been paying any attention.Ofcom were the one body that said that Murdoch should not be allowed to buy BSkyb outright..It was the government who were going to allow it through on the nod..It's just that Ofcom hasn't the teeth to tell the government to get lost and to stop interfering.

Plus Ofcom is actually an INDEPENDENT regulatory body unlike the PCC.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/wo...nt&tntemail1=y

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An e-mail to Rupert Murdoch’s son James that referred to “a nightmare scenario” of legal repercussions from widespread phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid was deleted from his computer less than two weeks before the police opened their current investigation into phone hacking, lawyers said Wednesday. The deletion was part of an “e-mail stabilization and modernization program” in which accounts were “being prepared for the migration to a new e-mail system,” said Linklaters, a law firm representing News International, the British newspaper arm of the Murdoch media empire.The e-mail was a chain of messages sent June 7, 2008, to James Murdoch, head of News Corporation’s European and Asian operations, warning that the potential legal fallout from hacking at The News of the World was “as bad as we feared.”
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The disclosure of the deletion came in a letter from Linklaters to the Commons committee. The letter says that the deletion occurred on Jan. 15, 2011. Operation Weeting, the police inquiry into phone hacking at The News of the World, began 11 days later.
Well,well,well.Do we believe this?

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 09:57
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I think the best thing the Murdochs they should do is Merge News Corp with Time Warner, they would like a major TV Network in the US and more Cable channels, the Murdochs will be the biggest shareholders in Time Warner, while they would no longer mangage a company!

Stuart 02-02-2012 10:14
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35373907)
Actually Ofcom have done far more in standing up to Murdoch's empire than the PCC or Government IF you had been paying any attention.Ofcom were the one body that said that Murdoch should not be allowed to buy BSkyb outright..It was the government who were going to allow it through on the nod..It's just that Ofcom hasn't the teeth to tell the government to get lost and to stop interfering.

Plus Ofcom is actually an INDEPENDENT regulatory body unlike the PCC.

Not to mention, IIRC, resisting Murdoch's repeated calls for a 6th national terrestrial channel.

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 10:17
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Originally Posted by Stuart (Post 35373926)
Not to mention, IIRC, resisting Murdoch's repeated calls for a 6th national terrestrial channel.
We are going to get that!

http://www.t3.com/news/sixth-nationa...estrial-roster

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...vision-channel

We also used to have Six TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_TV

I want these Local TV channels to be part of the BBC

Stuart 02-02-2012 10:52
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That's seperate.. What Murdoch wanted is to be given the licence to create a new Sky channel.

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 10:54
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Originally Posted by Stuart (Post 35373948)
That's seperate.. What Murdoch wanted is to be given the licence to create a new Sky channel.
Wouldn that be Sky Six?

They should just buy Channel 5 insted

Maggy 02-02-2012 12:40
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35373953)
Wouldn that be Sky Six?

They should just buy Channel 5 insted
They already tried that with ITV and got told by Ofcom to sell some of their ITV shares.

BenMcr 02-02-2012 12:44
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35374017)
They already tried that with ITV and got told by Ofcom to sell some of their ITV shares.
I may be misremembering here but I think the only reason they had to sell shares in ITV was because ITV has as PSB licence, so were too 'big' for Sky to have a controlling stake in alongside their own channels

Sky could have probably bought Channel 5 without issue, but then owning another channel wasn't the reason Sky bought shares in ITV in the first place ;)

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 12:47
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35374027)
I may be misremembering here but I think the only reason they had to sell shares in ITV was because ITV has as PSB licence, so were too 'big' for Sky to have a controlling stake in alongside their own channels

Sky could have probably bought Channel 5 without issue, but then owning another channel wasn't the reason Sky bought shares in ITV in the first place ;)
It was to stop VM form buying the company, even though if we did buy it we would then sell it after 5 years to sky anyway! :D

Maggy 02-02-2012 12:47
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35374027)
I may be misremembering here but I think the only reason they had to sell shares in ITV was because ITV has as PSB licence, so were too 'big' for Sky to have a controlling stake in alongside their own channels

Sky could have probably bought Channel 5 without issue, but then owning another channel wasn't the reason Sky bought shares in ITV in the first place ;)
Buying Channel 5 would have placed them in the same position they were in in trying to get control of ITV.Charges about monopolies would have been brought.

Alan Fry 02-02-2012 12:50
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35374036)
Buying Channel 5 would have placed them in the same position they were in in trying to get control of ITV.Charges about monopolies would have been brought.
Channel 5 is a minor channel compaired to ITV/STV/UTV and even Channel 4


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