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Sunday Times Article

  • 20-01-2002 10:36pm
    #1
    Leesider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭


    From today's business section of the Sunday Times:

    A Chorus of Disapproval

    RTE's decision to make its services available to Irish viewers on the Sky satellite network has caused apoplexy at Independent News & Media (INM) which is trying to flog off its 50% interest in Princes Holdings, 50% owner of cable operator, Chorus.

    The company's newspapers seem surprised that Sky had captured 193,000 Irish customers in advance of the RTE deal, but given the pitiful level of service offered by Chorus and NTL, we thought the figure would have been higher. Chorus is in the process of lobbying the telecoms regulator in an attempt to scupper the RTE deal, and to help its cause it has taken to playing the green card. Sorry guys, it's a little more complicated than that.

    Sky is 40% owned by News Corporation, parent company of the Sunday Times, but NTL is also a multinational boasting France Telecom and Microsft as investors. Meantime, Chorus is 50% owned by Dutch-based UPC which, in turn, is financed by US-based Liberty media (also an 18% shareholder in News Corporation), Motorola and Microsoft. Incestuous or what?

    Hmmmmm.......


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    I was in a friends house in Arklow yesterday.
    They have Chorus cable.
    It's Woefull and all mono.
    The reception is all snow and wavy lines,including RTE.
    They and everyone on that estate have had no Joy with Ringing Chorus-just promises.
    Three of the 11 houses there are now on Sky and my friends are shortly to become the fourth.
    It will not take long for the rest to follow.

    Chorus are you listening-why do you persist in providing such a sham service???
    mm


  • #3
    PacMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭PacMan


    Reading all the postings on this board, I again state that I think that Sky is by far the better system. My views on CHorus have been published on this forum before so I will not repeat them here. However I am concerned about several factors which may "Cloud" our judgment of the great Chorus/Ntl Vs Sky debate which appears to be taking place in the media.
    I think that reading articles in the Irish Independent with their anti Sky bias, and reading articles in the Sunday Times about their Anti-Chorus , it is interesting to note that both of these media operations are involved in these broadcasting companies.
    Sky or BskyB is part owned by NewsCorp, which publishes the Sunday Times. Independent News and media which publishes the Irish Indo, is a shareholder in Chorus. I believe that the only non-bias articles which are published in the Irish Media are those in the Sunday Business Post. These articles seem to be correct and have often published "Reports" which weeks later have been confirmed by Sky. This is a case of indivudial choice, and even though Chorus is NOT one of my favourite companies, they are needed in the irish Broadcasting arena, the only reason being that Sky Digital doesnt become a monopoly just like Chorus was in the past


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