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JA
JAS84
Yeah, News Corporation got split in two. News Corp has the Sun and Times, 21st Century Fox has Sky News. The media plurality problem has already been dealt with.
JO
Jon
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, News Corporation got split in two. News Corp has the Sun and Times, 21st Century Fox has Sky News. The media plurality problem has already been dealt with.

Well not really. Maybe two seperate companies legally but we know who's in control.
DV
DVB Cornwall
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, News Corporation got split in two. News Corp has the Sun and Times, 21st Century Fox has Sky News. The media plurality problem has already been dealt with.


Not necessarily, the investigations will look at the underlying major shareholders in both companies when checking plurality. If they weren't being checked, the DCMS Sec wouldn't have ruled as she did yesterday.

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DV
DVB Cornwall
Well....

We now have a referral AND its also to cover broadcasting standards too.
Fox News have a lot to answer to Rupert I suggest now


see here ……..

GOVERNMENT on GOV.UK
12-Sep-2017 @ 20:12
TJ
TedJrr
I wonder if the outcome of the further investigation would find out that Murdoch can't own News Corp or Fox because owning many news services would be too much.



No. There's now no point in reviewing media plurality or advertising segment penetration' unless you are prepared to include Google into scope. Trust the British Government to skirt around this one.

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DJ
DJGM
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DE
derek500
Q. If Murdoch is so bad why do the BBC and the other PSBs get his companies to make so many of their programmes?

Tonight's primetime BBC One schedule is bookended by Murdoch programmes, Pointless and Gunpowder.
DV
DVB Cornwall
Because of the power that his companies exert and the takeovers that they've engineered. In addition the restrictions placed on the BBC and PSBs in respect of own production make the use of third parties inevitable.
JO
Jon
Because of the power that his companies exert and the takeovers that they've engineered. In addition the restrictions placed on the BBC and PSBs in respect of own production make the use of third parties inevitable.

And simply becuase the BBC is always going to commision the best programmes.

Channel and Sky News ownership is a different issue.

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DV
DVB Cornwall
A touch of blackmail in the works



MD
mdtauk
Does have the whiff of a threat doesn't it. ITN could step in perhaps?

But if the deal does not go through, and Sky is sold to someone else, wouldn't it be their decision whether Sky News continues or not?
KE
kernow
A merger between ITN and Sky News has been discussed in the past, so it could still happen.

The talks at the time ended because of BSkyB's purchase of a stake in ITV. If it had gone through, it would have effectively been a takeover of ITN by BSkyB. If it happened this time, it would probably be the other way around.

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