Interesting move, especially considering that NGW didn't get the BBC digital TV transmission contract last year.
I wonder what the Competition Commission will have to say about it. In terms of TV there isn't much competition between the 2 due to site sharing - NGW rents space at Arqiva's sites and vice versa, but radio is a diffrnet matter.
It could mean a big re-organisation of sites and some anomolies disappearing for example DAB not being split between NGQ and Arqiva sites and the distinctions between places like Crystal Palace and Croydon, Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield.
Isn't this Macthingy Bank the same holding company that also ultimately owns Red Bee Media?
Could make things interesting in the BBC nations, with the Channel Directors taking signals from Red Bee and then sending them to NGW. They'd, effectively, be the meat in a Macthingy Bank sandwich.
:-(
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I said this before but.
is this the same company that owns that other Media company we have been talking about on here and Stagecoach london bus routes???
Isn't this Macthingy Bank the same holding company that also ultimately owns Red Bee Media?
Yep the very same. The ones that will soon own everything
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Could make things interesting in the BBC nations, with the Channel Directors taking signals from Red Bee and then sending them to NGW. They'd, effectively, be the meat in a Macthingy Bank sandwich.
Would have happened anyway, Arqiva got the contract for the post-DSO BBC transmission network
is this the same company that owns that other Media company we have been talking about on here and Stagecoach london bus routes???
Yes, and Thames Water, and the M6 Toll Road, and (through Select Service Partner), most of the catering outlets in stations and airports across the country...
First the interest disclosure .... I own shares in National Grid,
This simply must not be allowed to happen, it stifles competition in the sector, broadcasters will have no choice as to who they go to for terrestrial transmission and effectively no leverage when doing their deals.
is this the same company that owns that other Media company we have been talking about on here and Stagecoach london bus routes???
Yes, and Thames Water, and the M6 Toll Road, and (through Select Service Partner), most of the catering outlets in stations and airports across the country...
A fact that indicates that they are quite good at managing companies - why should they be owned by people that won't do their job so well?
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This simply must not be allowed to happen, it stifles competition in the sector, broadcasters will have no choice as to who they go to for terrestrial transmission and effectively no leverage when doing their deals.
Is there really any competition in the transmission sector anyway?
Is there really any competition in the transmission sector anyway?
Very much so at present remember a few months ago the BBC announced that they'd dropped their traditional supplier NGW for the DTT network and moved to Arqiva.
Loads of Brits are emmigrating to Oz these days, so they are returning the favour I suppose