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 others - most likely other American capital.
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'm afraid that if Murdoch directly sells News International Group - at the worst, giving up his newspaper media and publishing business in the UK - 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 in this process, Barron at most promised not to cause trouble, or 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 greatest benefits from each other..."
Although Barron didn't have a good impression of these cunning Jews, he also understood that in their position, it can be said that everyone has already formed thousands of branches at all levels, just like the roots of a tree, extending out inextricably. Relationships and context.
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 you, reason will eventually prevail.
Unless it's 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 understand this - after all, if it were him, I'm afraid he wouldn't 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 SEM Group's ITV...
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.
As a result of the final bidding, ITV obtained half of the total 6 game packages, which is the broadcast rights for 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 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 all "junk time", was bought by DailyVedio.com at a slightly lower price.
Even so, DailyVedio.com also defeated BT's video platform.
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 Klarna Pay.
As for the 69 games won by ITV, a considerable part are in prime time, and the remaining games are better than "garbage time". It can be said that they are 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 pounds to 4.76 million pounds.
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, his son James Murdoch, who is responsible for European affairs of News Corporation, and Rebecca Brooks, chief executive of News International Group, discussed the "News of the World" The wiretapping scandal attended a hearing held by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British Parliament.
Murdoch was "ashamed" of the incident when he was 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.
MPs hope to learn from the questioning when Murdoch and his son knew about the wiretapping of the News of the World and what countermeasures they took.
This is the first time Murdoch has been questioned by Parliament since he owned the British media for more than 40 years.
He and his son James both appeared in front of MPs in dark suits and blue ties that day.
Murdoch said shortly after the hearing began that this was the "most humble" day in his life.
When MPs asked "whether they knew about the illegal behavior of their subordinates", Murdoch began to answer mostly with silence or "no".
He said that he was shocked, angry and ashamed until two weeks ago when he learned that the News of the World reporter had wiretapped the text messages of the victim girl Millie Dooley.
When MPs asked him whether he should be responsible for the wiretapping scandal, Murdoch clearly refused to take responsibility.
He argued that News Corporation has more than 53,000 employees worldwide, and the News of the World only accounts for 1% of its global business, so he could not know everything.
As for who should be held responsible for the scandal, Murdoch said it was the people he once trusted to run the newspaper, and the people they once trusted.
Murdoch also admitted that he ignored the operation of the newspaper and rarely communicated with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In addition, his subordinates lied to him.
Murdoch said that he had not seen evidence that his media reporters had wiretapped the phones of the victims of the "9.11" incident in the United States, and he did not think that the FBI would find evidence to prove that such a thing happened.
Murdoch's son James said at the hearing that the wiretapping scandal was unforgivable and an extremely regrettable incident, and he apologized to the victims in the incident.
He said that the newspaper did not act according to the standards they hoped for, and would ensure that such incidents would not happen again in the future.
As for Barron's previous life, the famous scene of this hearing also happened again miraculously, just like the slight changes in history always need to face its inertia...
In the middle of the hearing, a man used the foam shaving liquid in his hand to hit old Murdoch.
Everyone was shocked, even the son who sat next to Murdoch completely lost his reaction.
But behind Murdoch, Wendy Duncan quickly jumped up from her seat and rushed forward to protect her husband.
She passed a woman with the force of thunder and lightning, then raised her hand and slapped the attacker, and then threw the foam shaving liquid on the attacker's face. The whole process took no more than two minutes.
It can be said that Wendy Duncan's behavior at that time changed the public's previous impression of her.
All the media present were shocked by Wendy Duncan's decisiveness and ruthlessness. She also successfully topped the headlines of various countries with a slap, and even Murdoch's News Corporation's stock price was slapped back by her by 6%...
