Chapter 528 Winner
Even if Barron's can drive News Corporation out of England, their current BSkyB and News International Group cannot be sold to Barron's, but will only be sold to other people - the most likely Additional American capital is possible.
What’s more, this is simply impossible. With Murdoch’s methods, the worst result is to survive with a broken arm.
In the original time and space, Murdoch finally "overcame the crisis" by closing the News of the World, stopping the overall acquisition of Sky TV, and resigning several senior executives...
Now, even with Barron's added firepower, I am afraid that if Murdoch directly sells News International Group - at the worst, abandoning the newspaper media and publishing business in Britain - he will be able to escape unscathed.
As for the investigation in the United States, for him, it was nothing more than a waste of a few favors.
Therefore, both Barron and Murdoch understand that Barron’s asking price cannot be greater than the value of the entire News International Group.
And because among them, Barron promised not to cause trouble at most, and would not even take the initiative to help Murdoch clear the relationship, so what he can get...
"In fact , Your Highness the Duke, we are not necessarily competitors. If we can cooperate, we can actually get the best benefits from each other..."
Although Barron does not have a good impression of these cunning Jews, he They also understand that in their position, it can be said that everyone has already extended inextricably linked relationships and contexts at various levels, just like the roots of a tree.
It is simply unrealistic to uproot any family at once. The final battle is always the result of mutual compromise after collisions.
And when the other party can bring benefits to yourself, reason will eventually prevail.
Unless it is the kind of hatred of life and death.
Of course, everyone can say nice things, but this time, it wasn’t just Barron who made things difficult for Murdoch—the other party just gave him this opportunity.
The key is that they still have to pass the British government. In two days, Murdoch will need to attend a hearing on relevant parliamentary questions.
In addition, he will definitely need to use enough chips to gain the friendship of Barron, the influential Duke.
I believe Murdoch can also understand this - after all, if it were him, I am afraid he would not let this opportunity go, or even worse.
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After the meeting between the two, the Premier League's bid for broadcast rights soon came to fruition.
After a tacit understanding between the two most competitive buyers, Sky TV and ITV of SEM Group...
As mentioned before, in this bidding, a total of 138 Premier League games will be divided into 6 game packages, with 23 games in each game package.
In the final bidding result, ITV obtained half of the total 6 game packages, which is the broadcast rights of 69 games in 3 game packages.
Sky TV only received 2 game packages and the broadcast rights of 46 games.
The broadcast rights for the remaining 23 games in the game package were obtained by DailyVedio.com.
It can be said that Sky TV lost to ITV in this bidding for the Premier League broadcast rights, which will inevitably affect their subsequent sports channel user subscriptions...
The only slight consolation for Sky TV is that one of their two game packages includes the two "golden combination" broadcast times of Sunday at 4pm and Saturday at 12:45pm. The 23 games in the other game package are mostly "garbage time" games like Monday night at 8 o'clock and Saturday evening at 5:15 p.m.
The other game package, which was almost always in the "garbage period", was bought by DailyVedio.com at a slightly lower price.
Even so, DailyVedio.com also defeated the video platform owned by BT.
They will provide live broadcast and video playback services of these games to users through Freeview set-top boxes and websites, thereby attracting more registered users and VIP users who pay through KlarnaPay.
As for the 69 games that ITV bid for, a considerable part of them are prime time, and the remaining games are better than "garbage time". They can be said to be the three highest quality game packages...
Of course, correspondingly, they also need to pay more broadcast fees to the Premier League.
This time there are 138 games in total, and the three buyers, ITV, Sky TV and DailyVedio.com, need to pay a total of 1.7 billion pounds in broadcast fees to the Premier League. This is a 66.6% increase compared to the 1.024 billion pounds that Sky TV paid to the Premier League in the previous bidding for Premier League broadcast rights.
Considering that there are 138 league broadcasts per season, the average broadcast fee for each league game has risen from the current £2.47 million to 4.76 million.
In addition, the Premier League will soon complete the sale of global broadcast rights, mobile phone information release rights and highlight programs, with total revenue expected to be close to 2.5 billion pounds.
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On March 19, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, and his son James Murdoch, who is responsible for European affairs of News Corporation, and Rebecca, chief executive of News International Group, Brooks attended a hearing held by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British Parliament on the "News of the World" hacking scandal.
Murdoch felt "ashamed" of the incident when questioned by MPs, but refused to take responsibility for the scandal.
The hearing started at 2:30 pm and lasted for more than 5 hours.
Members of Parliament hope to learn through questioning when the Murdochs first knew about the wiretapping of the News of the World and what measures they took in response.
This is the first time Murdoch has faced a parliamentary inquiry in more than 40 years since he owned the British media.
He and his son James both appeared in front of the lawmakers wearing dark suits and blue ties that day.
Murdoch said shortly after the hearing began that this was the "most humbling" day in his life.
Faced with questions from members of parliament about "whether he knew about his subordinates' illegal acts," Murdoch initially responded with silence or "no."
He said he was shocked, angry and ashamed until two weeks ago when he learned that News of the World reporters had tapped the text messages on the mobile phone of the murdered girl Millie Dole.
When asked by lawmakers whether he was responsible for the wiretapping scandal, Murdoch made it clear he refused to take responsibility.
He argued that News Corporation has more than 53,000 employees worldwide, and "News of the World" only accounts for 1% of its global business, and it is impossible for him to know everything.
As for the question of who is responsible for the scandal, Murdoch said it was the people he once trusted running the newspaper and the people they once trusted.
Murdoch also admitted that he had neglected the operation of the newspaper and rarely communicated with the newspaper editor. Plus, his people lied to him.
Murdoch said he had seen no evidence that reporters from his media outlets had tapped the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, nor did he think the FBI would find evidence to prove that such a thing had happened.
Murdoch's son James said at the hearing that the wiretapping scandal was inexcusable and an extremely regrettable incident, and he expressed his apology to the victims in the incident.
He said that the newspaper had not acted according to the standards they expected and would ensure that such an incident would not happen again in the future.
As for Barron’s previous life, the famous scene of this hearing magically happened again, just like small changes in history always need to face its inertia...
< br>In the middle of the hearing, a man hit Murdoch Sr. with foam shaving lotion in his hand.
Everyone was shocked, even Murdoch’s son, who was sitting nearest, completely lost his reaction.
However, Wendy Deng, who was behind Murdoch, jumped up from her seat with lightning speed and rushed forward to protect her husband.
With the power of lightning, she passed over a woman, then raised her hand and slapped the attacker, and then smashed the foam shaving lotion into the attacker's face. The whole process took no more than two minutes. .
It can be said that Wendy Deng's behavior at that time changed the public's previous impression of her.
All the media present were shocked by Wendy Deng's decisiveness. She also made headlines in various countries with just one slap. Even Murdoch's News Corporation's stock price rose by 6% due to her...< br>
(End of this chapter)