Mon, 24th Sep 2018 07:22
(ShareCast News) - Pay-TV operator Sky has inked a deal that will see it broadcast Germany's Bundesliga football through to 2021 at an average rights cost of €876m a year, from €486m under the existing contract. The win followed a successful outcome to the German Professional Football Association's
Read more(ShareCast News) - Credit Suisse reiterated its 'outperform' stance on BT Group stock, telling clients that markets were not yet pricing in the likely outcome to Ofcom´s upcoming Wholesale Local Access (WLA) review, among other factors. Given that Sky had ruled out building a UK fibre network and Ta
Read more(ShareCast News) - Sky has emerged as potential kingmaker in a looming £9bn bid battle between private equity giants for mobile operator O2. The pay-TV company is being courted by at least five buyout specialists seeking its heavyweight backing for their bids, City sources revealed. Discussions are
Read more(ShareCast News) - Telecoms regulator Ofcom should force BT Group to further separate its Openreach infrastructure arm for the good of the industry, according to a letter from media and telecoms groups including Sky, Vodafone and TalkTalk. The chief executives of Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and two netw
Read more(ShareCast News) - The merger between Ladbrokes and Coral could be blocked, analysts have suggested, citing the blocking last week of the proposed merger between O2 and Three by Europe's competition commission on the ground that it would have cut the number of big players from four to three, an argu
Read more(ShareCast News) - Royal Bank of Scotland is examining a range of radical options to help speed the long-delayed separation and flotation of its Williams & Glyn subsidiary, including a potential divestment of its NatWest brand. Banking sources have indicated to the Sunday Telegraph that RBS and its
Read more(ShareCast News) - BT's newly announced multi-billion-pound investment in the UK's broadband network has received stinging criticism from UK manufacturers and rival Sky over the continued use of legacy copper wire technology and the slow, uncertain pace of improvements to the nation's digital infras
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