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Old 16-03-2017, 17:14   #810
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by theone2k10 View Post
So SKY was funded by taxpayers then?
Not at all, Sky doesn't even own the satellites, they use space on the SES Astra fleet. BT, however, is another matter, originally being publicly owned as a part of the GPO.

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I know BTs network was i remember back when the big players were Mercury telecoms, BT and cable and wireless.
Indeed.

As mentioned previously, the concern with the Sky takeover is the Murdoch empire's control of and influence over the media. Bearing in mind the reasons for the fate of the Murdoch controlled newspaper "News of The World", the concerns are well founded.