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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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.
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