English and French wait on Celtic clubs’ call – for now October 21, 2013 But plans put in place should they have to go it alone ENGLISH and French clubs are refusing to set their Celtic counterparts an ultimatum to join a breakaway competition but have already started planning next season’s European club rugby without them. Premiership and Top14 chiefs have ruled out taking part in a tournament under [...]
BSkyB’s shares hit 12-year high on user growth October 17, 2013 SKY’S growing broadband and TV customer numbers during the three months to 30 September helped push the pay-TV giant’s share price to a 12-year high yesterday. Sky added 800,000 new paid-for subscriptions to its services during the quarter, boosted by 111,000 new broadband subscribers, which took the company to over 5m total broadband customers. Revenues [...]
Bottom Line: Costs bite but Premier commitment pays off October 17, 2013 NO MATTER who wins, wars are always expensive. When BT kicked off its bid to take on rival BSkyB with its own dedicated sports channels earlier this year, it sparked a bidding battle for Premier League football rights that sent prices soaring. Sky acknowledged the hit in its first quarter results yesterday as programming costs rose [...]
YouView signs up non-exec chair who was credited with saving NTL October 16, 2013 Streaming services company YouView has appointed Simon Duffy as a non-executive chairman. Duffy is no stranger to television services – he's widely credited for the rescue of debt-laden NTL (now Virgin Media) when he was executive vice chairman there. If you don't know it – YouView says that it's the UK's fastest growing TV platform, [...]
Best of the Brokers for 16 October 2013 October 15, 2013 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com CSR UBS has upgraded the software group from “sell” to “neutral” with a price target of 530p following a recent dip in the share price. The broker thinks the current value reflects seven per cent annual growth, and expects to see third-quarter results [...]
Gino D’Acampo polpette recipe: Meatballs like mamma made them October 15, 2013 This is my mum’s recipe. She used to cook this for me once a week. It was a special occasion when she made it because it requires expensive ingredients (meat and parmesan) and mine was not the wealthiest of families. Mum began using smaller meatballs because we used to complain when we only got one [...]
Rugby viewers up 90 per cent October 15, 2013 VIEWING figures for Premiership Rugby have almost doubled from the same period last season following the switch to BT Sport, top-flight chiefs said yesterday. The 16 matches from the first five rounds of the season shown live on the channel attracted average audiences 90 per cent greater than last year, according to figures from the [...]
Sky Movies deal pushes TV rivals closer together October 14, 2013 BT FINALLY inked a deal with Sky yesterday to show its premium Sky Movies channels on BT’s TV packages following three years of negotiations. Though talks between the media giants to allow Sky Sports content across all of BT’s TV offerings remain ongoing, the Sky Movies deal could indicate Sky is more willing to negotiate [...]
BT offers movies package as Sky agreement reached October 14, 2013 Fresh signs that the relationship between BT and Sky might be healing. The two have signed a multi-year contract that will see BT customers able to watch Sky Movies for an additional monthly subscription, from 26 October. BT TV customers will be able to enjoy the latest movies across 11 Sky Movies channels, in standard [...]
EE deal could see BT heading back to mobile October 10, 2013 BT IS poised to move back into the consumer mobile market after signing a deal to use EE’s network yesterday, 11 years after selling off its BT Cellnet business. Yesterday’s agreement will initially allow BT to provide mobile service to its 250,000 corporate customers using EE’s network, and could allow BT to offer a consumer service [...]