Letters to the editor – 21/08 – Sport competition, Best of Twitter August 20, 2013 Sport competition [Re: BT Sport has a mountain to climb in its bid to beat BSkyB, yesterday] David Hellier raises some interesting points about how consumers are buying converged TV, broadband and telephony packages. However, he misses two main points: BT is not looking to topple Sky Sports, and Sky TV customers can get BT Sport [...]
BT Sport has a mountain to climb in its bid to beat BSkyB August 19, 2013 A COUPLE of friends of mine have spent most of their summer putting together what is certain to be an entertaining and enlightening show for Sky Arts called Portrait Artist of the Year. Presented by the comedian Frank Skinner, the series involves members of the public painting portraits of celebrities, including the actress Juliet Stevenson. [...]
A Range Rover that is truly sporty August 19, 2013 It’s the fastest, most agile SUV the manufacturer has ever built. We put it through its paces… in a jumbo jet They’re known for coming up with imaginative off-road courses, but the Land Rover Experience guys have outdone themselves this time. It’s fantastically silly. I’m driving the new Range Rover Sport SDV6 model up an [...]
BT Sport pulls in the fans amid £1bn Sky Sports war August 18, 2013 BT SPORT kicked off its bid to take on rival Sky Sports with a peak television audience of 764,000 for its opening day match on Saturday, it emerged yesterday. The number tuning in for the lunchtime fixture between Liverpool and Stoke City is on a par with opening day games shown on broadcasters ESPN and [...]
Edwards up for sale just a year after $1bn float August 18, 2013 BRITISH technology firm Edwards, which listed in the US after struggling to float in London, is in talks about a potential sale to Swedish group Atlas Copco, it was reported this weekend. A $1bn (£640m) sale of the company would end a brief spell as a public firm for the Crawley-based vacuum pump manufacturer, [...]
BT Sport strikes Virgin deal for new channels August 15, 2013 VIRGIN Media customers will now be offered access to BT’s new sports channels, after the network providers struck a deal just days ahead of the start of the Premier League season. The three-year deal – BT Sport’s first tie-up with a rival pay-TV service – will mean subscribers to Virgin’s most expensive XL package will [...]
BT teams up with Virgin Media in football battle against Sky August 15, 2013 BT and Virgin Media have announced a three year deal that will give Virgin Media TV customers access to BT Sport TV channels (release). The deal will come into effect from this weekend, and will give Virgin Media’s 3.8m XL customers access to BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN. The deal will boost [...]
Egypt in crisis as hundreds massacred August 14, 2013 THE EGYPTIAN army yesterday killed hundreds of supporters of the deposed President Mohammed Morsi in an attempt to destroy protest camps calling for his return. Thousands more were severely injured in the clashes, while the pro-Morsi Muslim Brotherhood movement claimed the real number of lives lost is much higher. Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi, installed following [...]
Chair of DMGT mulls stock bid August 13, 2013 VISCOUNT Rothermere is understood to be inching towards a bid for the 10.8 per cent of Daily Mail General Trust’s (DMGT) voting shares he does not already own. Rothermere, the DMGT chairman, could make the bid through his trust, Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL). The move, first reported by Sky News, would see RCL buy out [...]
Expansion at Heathrow gets a boost from traffic number and backing of air alliances August 12, 2013 Heathrow airport handled 6.9m passengers in July – up 5.5 per cent from the year before. This increase was largely due to lower traffic last year from the timing of the Olympic games in London. East Asia traffic saw the biggest increase, up 18.9 per cent primarily due to increases in capacity. China traffic was [...]