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nialli · 11-07-2014, 08:39

On that "Murdoch to buy TimeWarner" rumour, it seems just to be a rumour with little substance: http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/goo...er-1201260050/. Google buying TimeWarner? Hmmm, that's been tried before (AOL, at the time a huge internet company, bought TW back in 2000) and that is widely regarded as an absolute disaster.
The only TW channels broadcasting in the UK are CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM. There's no reason to believe that their future carriage on VM would be under any kind of threat even if Fox were to successfully buy TW.

11-07-2014, 08:39	#108
nialli cf.geek Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Greenwich, SE10 Services: Sky Stream, Sky broadband Posts: 865	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3 On that "Murdoch to buy TimeWarner" rumour, it seems just to be a rumour with little substance: http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/goo...er-1201260050/. Google buying TimeWarner? Hmmm, that's been tried before (AOL, at the time a huge internet company, bought TW back in 2000) and that is widely regarded as an absolute disaster. The only TW channels broadcasting in the UK are CNN, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM. There's no reason to believe that their future carriage on VM would be under any kind of threat even if Fox were to successfully buy TW.