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Originally Posted by Media Boy
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Very interesting.
Liberty may not have premiership or premium films rights at the moment, yet despite what they've said in the recent past, Liberty/VM are still very much in the content game.
I expect a slew of Liberty owned channels at some point once they have enough stuff to put on them. They already aleady have Eurosport and Discovery, so I'd expect a general entertainment channel at some point at the very least.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
There is going to be interesting times ahead. If LG starts down the content road how long before Sky starts to throw its teddy out of the pram again  |
Liberty aka John Malone has always been in the content business. What we have seen is getting rid of stuff they don't control ie the UKTV and chellomedia business' and gaining more control of stuff they already have ie Discovery and using that as a vehicle to take control of more things like Eurosport.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Sky operates as a business so does whatever is in its best interests, whether we like it or not.
In other news, whilst some politicians dream of taking us out of Europe, it looks like BSkyB is dreaming of entering Europe.
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Murdoch has always been involved in Europe. What the merger of the 3 Sky companies is about is to allow Murdoch to gain full control of BSkyB. He already controls the German and Italian Sky companies and has tried to regain full control of BskyB before,but things like phone hacking got in the way.... If he can merge the 3 companies together that gives him back control of BskyB, something he's always wanted after he merged his Sky company with BSB 20 years ago.