[Update] The News Corp scandal

[m419]

Eventually News international may well sell off bskyb as well as Sky Deutscheland.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't usually likes wholly owned companies and that is what his aim was, now that has failed and because people don't like news international anymore in the UK, he may well sell it off. If he does that all Sky branded channels and Viacom channels will either have there content rationed or else subscription costs will go up as it will no longer be in house. Good news for Virgin Media,BT Vision,Smallworld,Chorus,Cablecom-Switzerland and TalkTalk TV and its customers because it will open the market quite a lot and the cost of channels will be cut as well as having full availability across all platforms.

Effected Channels if News international sell of BskyB:

Sky 1
Sky 2
Sky Living
Sky Movies (All channels)
Sky Atlantic (Any content directly from Fox network)
MTV
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
VH1
History
Military History
Biography channel
National Geographic
Crime and Investigation

Sky will have to pay more for content as well as carriage costs.

Content across such channels like The Simpsons could be removed from Sky 1 and Sky 2 and be moved to FX as well as a terrestrial channel such as Channel 4. FX is a wholly owned channel of News International and will become a direct competitor of Sky 1. Without shows like The Simpsons, Sky 1 will fail.

Sky Deutscheland in Germany is not pulling in as many customers as it hoped due to competition with Cable TV, Cable TV offers many channels for free so there isn't much need for satellite TV.

Anyway we will just have to wait and see!

Threads merged.

[denphone]

The warnings were there a long time ago that hacking was rife at Murdoch's papers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...r-2325909.html

Did anyone watch the Channel 4 Dispatches,How Murdoch Ran Britain last night?

If you didn't it is available on 4oD.

[BenMcr]

There is also another Murdoch programme on Weds 10pm Channel 4 (and in HD)

[Derek]

Originally Posted by denphone

The warnings were there a long time ago that hacking was rife at Murdoch's papers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...r-2325909.html

There has been warnings since 2002 that they were all at it. From May 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/may/01/1

How appropriate that the most glamourous event in the showbusiness calender should be sponsored by a phone company. Mohan went on to thank "Vodafone's lack of security" for the Mirror's showbusiness exclusives. Whatever does he mean?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Did anyone watch the Channel 4 Dispatches,How Murdoch Ran Britain last night?

If you didn't it is available on 4oD.

Yes l recorded it and tonight given a bit of time l will watch it tonight.

---------- Post added at 14:59 ---------- Previous post was at 14:57 ----------

Originally Posted by Derek

There has been warnings since 2002 that they were all at it. From May 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/may/01/1

Two words spring to mind and that is a Pandora's box.

Something I forgot to mention from last night's Despatches was how one ex NOTW reporter had access to 3.5 million to use as bribe money..

That sort of sum provides a lot of temptation..

[denphone]

All very cosy if you ask me about Murdoch and the present government.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-2326517.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...hree-days.html

And, of course, he had no close contacts in the previous Government....Independent

Mr Murdoch told a committee of MPs on Tuesday that he was advised to use the back door to Downing Street to avoid photographers when visiting both Mr Cameron and Mr Brown. He expressed regret about the breakdown of his relationship with Mr Brown, saying their wives became friends and their children played together.

While they were in power, The Independent submitted several requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act asking for details of their contacts with the media mogul. In 2006, Downing Street ruled that while there was a public interest in Mr Blair's dealings with Mr Murdoch, there was an overriding interest in keeping them secret so the Prime Minister could have "free and frank discussions".

Mr Brown allowed Mr Blair's contacts with Mr Murdoch to be disclosed after succeeding him in 2007. Replying to an FOI request from James Macintyre, a former Independent journalist, the Cabinet Office revealed that Mr Blair had three telephone conversations with Mr Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war in 2003. The invasion was strongly supported by Murdoch-owned newspapers. The Cabinet Office said there were six telephone discussions between Mr Blair and Mr Murdoch in 20 months, all at crucial moments of his premiership. The subject of their calls was not revealed.

However, Mr Brown's openness did not extend to his own contacts with Mr Murdoch. Replying to another FOI request, Downing Street told The Independent that "we do not hold any minutes of any meetings or other interactions" between Mr Brown and Mr Murdoch. This was despite the News Corp chairman's visit to Chequers in October 2007 during the weekend when Mr Brown scrapped plans for a snap general election.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Hugh

And, of course, he had no close contacts in the previous Government....

Of course they did but this is the present government we are talking about and it seems they had more fingers in the cherry pie then the previous administration.

Originally Posted by denphone

Of course they did but this is the present government we are talking about and it seems they had more fingers in the cherry pie then the previous administration.

Read my update......

Love the way that only the present counts.......

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Read my update......

Love the way that only the present counts.......

Yes l have read your update and while the previous administration cannot pretend to wash their hands of this l still think the current administration has many more skeletons in its cupboard and has considerably more to lose.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Hugh

And, of course, he had no close contacts in the previous Government....Independent

I'm really looking forward to the full extent of these relationships becoming known and the cynical hypocrisy of some of these people being exposed for what it is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...ng-sarah-payne

Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.

Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaire's notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigator's notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target.

Friends of Sara Payne have told the Guardian that she is "absolutely devastated and deeply disappointed" at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paper's final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as "my good and trusted friends".