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CHANNEL REPORT - Can QVC stay top of the TV shops?
QVC brought the teleshopping revolution to the UK when it launched here in 1993. Now 10 years on and with more than 20 rival stations, the channel is turning to technology to stay ahead of the competition.
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Comcast set for $7.9bn disposal of QVC stake
Comcast, the US cable group, has agreed to sell its 57.5 per cent stake in the home shopping network QVC to Liberty...
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QVC could be put up for sale.
Shopping channel QVC could be sold following the announcement that John Malone's Liberty Media was planning to sell its 42% stake in the business, writes Paul Revoir.
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QVC could be put up for sale
Shopping channel QVC could be sold following the announcement that John Malone's Liberty Media was planning to sell its 42% stake in the business, writes Paul Revoir
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QVC at stake in Liberty discussions
Liberty Media yesterday embarked on a high-stakes negotiation with Comcast over the future of QVC ...
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Liberty to offer QVC stake to Comcast
Liberty Media yesterday announced plans to exercise an option likely to trigger the sale of QVC ...
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Comcast sells TV systems in cut-price deal
Comcast, the largest US cable operator, has sold a group of TV systems in the Rocky Mountain region for about $675m...
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Cable deal is approved
AT&T and Comcast shareholders overwhelmingly approved plans by the companies to create the nation's largest cable o...
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CITY WATCH - Finding the right Pace for growth.
The share price of the set-top box maker may have fallen after its latest results, but its prospects for the future look sound. The company is innovating with cheap plug-in decoders and PVR technology. James Curtis reports.
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Excite@Home in fight for survival
Shares in US broadband outfit plunge to new low as Securities and Exchange Commission filing by auditors expresses 'substantial doubt' that company can continue as going concern
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Show us your Business Plan..
EPG developer Gemstar and Mpeg-4 Encoding specialist Packet Video come under scrutiny as Domminc Timms assess their business plans
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More than a road digger?
How far will NTL be able to fulfil its ambitions of becoming a major broadcaster and rights holder, after a period of rapid expansion which burdened it with£10bn of debt and losses of£2bn last year?
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Interview: Steve Timmins, Einstein Channel
Albert Einstein said back in 1931 that: 'Science is a wonderful thing unless one has to make one's living at it.'Einstein Channel's chief executive Steve Timmins will be hoping that things
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Acquisition costs force NTL losses up
Cable giant goes further into the red as reports hint at Middlesbrough stake
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NTL pulls out from football takeover
NTL has shelved plans to bid for Newcastle United, arguing that a report from the Competition Commission (CC, formerly the Monopolies & Mergers Commission) blocking BSkyB's£623 million bid for Manchester
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CWC considers cable merger with Telewest
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has confirmed that it is considering a proposal to merge its cable TV interests with rival operator Telewest in a deal that would leave just two
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NTL BECOMES UK'S SECOND LARGEST CABLE TV OPERATOR
NTL has overtaken Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) to become the second biggest cable TV operator in the UK, following the completion of its takeover of Diamond Cable.According to figures compiled
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THE COMMENT PAGE - The opening of Gates to cable
A 5 per cent stake in the UK's third largest cable operator does not exactly add up to world domination. Yet NTL's rivals in the British cable market must be feeling
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DirecTV set to acquire Primestar
US digital satellite TV operator DirecTV is to acquire rival Primestar, reducing the number of players in the satellite market from three to two, writes Claire Atkinson.