Even if Barron can drive News Corporation out of England, their current BSkyB and News International will not be sold to Barron, but only to other people - most likely to be other American capital.
Moreover, this is unlikely. With Murdoch's methods, the worst result is to survive by cutting off his arm.
In the original time and space, Murdoch finally "survived the catastrophe" by closing the News of the World and stopping the overall acquisition of Sky TV, and resigning several senior executives...
Now, even if Barron is there to strengthen the firepower, I am afraid that if Murdoch directly sells News International - at most giving up the newspaper media and publishing business in England - he can get away with it.
As for the investigation in America, for him, it is 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 Barron promised not to stir up trouble, and would not even take the initiative to help Murdoch smooth out the relationship, so he could get...
"In fact, Your Highness, we are not necessarily competitors. If we can cooperate, we can actually get the greatest benefits from each other..."
Although Barron did not have a good impression of these cunning Jews, he also understood that in their position, it can be said that everyone has already extended a myriad of relationships and veins at all levels, just like tree roots.
It is not realistic to uproot a family all at once. The final battle is always the result of mutual compromise after repeated collisions.
And when the other party can bring benefits to oneself, reason will eventually prevail.
Unless it is a life-and-death feud.
Of course, everyone can say nice words, but this time, it is not just Barron who makes things difficult for Murdoch - the other party 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 the relevant parliamentary inquiries.
In addition, he must also come up with enough chips to gain the friendship of Barron, the influential duke.
I believe Murdoch can understand this - after all, if it were him, he would not miss this opportunity, or even more.
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Just after the meeting between the two, the Premier League's bidding for broadcasting rights soon came to a conclusion.
After the two most competitive buyers, Sky TV and SEM Group's ITV, reached a tacit understanding...
As mentioned before, in this bidding, a total of 138 Premier League games will be divided into 6 packages, each with 23 games.
In the final bidding result, ITV won half of the total 6 packages, that is, the broadcasting rights for 69 games in 3 packages.
Sky TV only won 2 packages, the
broadcasting rights for 46 games. The remaining package of 23 games was won by DailyVedio.com.
It can be said that Sky TV lost to ITV in the bidding for the Premier League broadcasting rights this time, which is bound to affect the user subscription of their sports channel in the future...
The only consolation for Sky TV is that one of their two game packages includes the games broadcast at the "golden combination" of 4 pm on Sunday and 12:45 pm on Saturday. As for the 23 games in the other game package, most of them are "garbage time" games like 8 pm on Monday and 5:15 pm on Saturday. The
other game package, which is almost all "garbage time", was bought by DailyVedio.com at a slightly lower price.
Even so, DailyVedio.com also defeated BT's video platform.
They will provide users with live broadcasts and video playback services of these games 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 that ITV won, a considerable number of them were in prime time, and the remaining games were better than the "junk time", which can be said to be the three highest quality game packages...
Of course, they also need to pay more broadcasting fees to the Premier League.
This time, there are a total of 138 games, and the three buyers, ITV, Sky TV and DailyVedio.com, need to pay a total of 1.7 billion pounds in broadcasting fees to the Premier League. This is a 66.6% increase compared to the previous bidding for the Premier League broadcasting rights, when Sky TV alone paid the Premier League 1.024 billion pounds in broadcasting fees.
Considering that there are 138 league broadcasts per season, the average broadcasting 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 broadcasting rights, mobile information release rights and highlights programs, and the total revenue is expected to be close to 2.5 billion pounds.
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On March 19, News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, his son James Murdoch, who is in charge of European affairs at News Corporation, and News International CEO Rebecca Brooks attended a hearing held by the British Parliament's Culture, Media and Sports Committee on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
Murdoch was "ashamed" of the incident when 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 measures they took to deal with it.
This is the first time that 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.
Murdoch said shortly after the hearing began that this was the "most humble" day in his life.
Faced with the MPs' questions about "whether they knew about the illegal behavior of their subordinates", Murdoch began to mostly answer with silence or "no".
He said that he did not know until two weeks ago that the News of the World reporter wiretapped the text messages of the victim girl Millie Dooley, and he was shocked, angry and ashamed about it.
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 had trusted to run the newspapers, and the people they had trusted.
Murdoch also admitted that he had neglected the operation of the newspapers and rarely communicated with the editor-in-chief of the newspapers. 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 had happened.
Murdoch's son James said at the hearing that the wiretapping scandal was unforgivable and that it was an extremely regrettable incident. He apologized to the victims in the incident.
He said that the newspapers 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 magically, just as if the slight changes in history always need to face its inertia...
In the middle of the hearing, a man used the foam shaving lotion in his hand to hit old Murdoch.
Everyone was shocked, and even Murdoch's son, who was sitting next to him, completely lost his reaction.
However, behind Murdoch, Wendy Duncan jumped up from her seat at lightning speed and rushed forward to protect her husband.
She jumped over a woman with lightning speed, raised her hand and slapped the attacker, then threw the foam shaving lotion 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 successfully made headlines in various countries with a slap, and even Murdoch's News Corporation's stock price was boosted by 6% by her...