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Severn Trent appoints BT Openreach CEO Liv Garfield November 18, 2013 Liv Garfield is to become the new chief executive officer (CEO) of water company Severn Trent. She will be stepping down as CEO of Openreach, BT's local access network division, in the spring of next year. During her time at BT, Garfield oversaw the £2.5bn commercial roll-out of fibre broadband, as well as pushing the [...]
Sky chief to address Champions League defeat at City conference November 18, 2013 SKY CHIEF executive Jeremy Darroch will address the company’s take on the recent upheaval of TV sport on Wednesday, City A.M. understands, after BT recently won exclusive rights for Champions League football from 2015. Up until now Sky has played down the importance of Champions League content to Sky Sport, as accounting for only three [...]
United score big as commercial and TV deals drive record results November 14, 2013 THE BOOM in income for English football’s top clubs is showing no sign of slowing down, with Manchester United raking in nearly £100m in its first three months of a new fiscal year. Releasing its first quarter results yesterday, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward also said that the new £900m BT deal to show the European Champions League [...]
Woodford tops market again November 14, 2013 EDINBURGH Investment Trust, the fund led by star manager Neil Woodford, yesterday said it had beaten the market average after a boost from shares in BT. The value of investments in the £1.3bn fund’s investments rose 4.4 per cent versus the FTSE All Share average of 3.8 per cent for the six months ending September, [...]
Letters to the Editor – 14/11 – Greenbelt, Premier league bid, Best of Twitter November 13, 2013 Greenbelt [Re: The Greenbelt sacred cow: It pens in the poor for no environmental gain, yesterday] I agree 100 per cent with the author. Support for the Greenbelt is strong among those over 60. In many cases, these people bought property between the 1960s and 1980s, when prices were often below £50,000 in today’s money. [...]
Exclusive: Shearer: I fear fans will be victims of pay TV war November 13, 2013 FORMER England captain Alan Shearer fears ordinary supporters are in danger of being priced out of football following BT Sport’s blockbusting £900m acquisition of Champions League broadcast rights. From 2015 British fans will have to subscribe to both BT and Sky in order to watch their clubs in all major competitions, meaning they are likely [...]
TV succeeding for TalkTalk despite losses November 12, 2013 TALKTALK fell into the red during the six months to 30 September as the telecoms operator invested in new customer growth and yesterday dismissed battles over TV sports rights as “not our fight”. The strategy appears to have been successful. TalkTalk boasted yesterday an additional 167,000 TV customer signups in the last quarter alone, putting [...]
London Report: Banking stocks stop FTSE index edging ahead November 12, 2013 FINANCIAL stocks kept a lid on the FTSE 100 yesterday after Goldman Sachs downgraded Royal Bank of Scotland. While the FTSE 100 closed little changed, banks and insurers combined to take 6.1 points off the index, handing back most of the gains they made in the previous session. Partly state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland fell [...]
Premier League bids to hit £5bn November 12, 2013 War between BSkyB and BT for TV football rights set to escalate THE COST of broadcasting Premier League matches is set to soar as soon as next year, as competition over the coveted rights intensifies between BSkyB and rival BT. After Sky’s sports dominance was challenged over the weekend by BT’s knockout £900m bid to [...]
Liga and Serie A beat English in TV cash grab November 11, 2013 PREMIER League chairmen may be licking their lips at the prospect of BT Sport’s vast investment trickling down to their clubs, but for now England’s top teams are being left in the shade by Spanish and even Italian teams when it comes to income from television rights. Real Madrid (€178m) rake in the most broadcast [...]