Murdoch's TV pirates
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/news-c...
Murdoch took on the BBC from the early days with Thatcher. There was a hiatus under Major but then Blair took it to a whole new level which we wouldn't see again until Cameron.
Murdoch's skill is in infiltrating those with power and authority. Yet in an interview some years ago with Thomas Kierman he said:
"You tell these bloody politicians whatever they want to hear, and once they deal is done you don’t worry about it. They’re not going to chase after you later if they suddenly decide what you said wasn’t what they wanted to hear. Otherwise they’re made to look bad and they can’t abide that. So they just stick their heads up their asses and wait for the blow to pass."
I underestimated Major. The more I read about him the more I realise just how straight and honest he was. He was let down by the squabbling of his party and making them, in my opinion, unelectable in 97. I'm still of that opinion. At the time I just didn't realise how unelectable Blair was.
Murdoch took on the BBC from the early days with Thatcher. There was a hiatus under Major but then Blair took it to a whole new level which we wouldn't see again until Cameron.
Murdoch's skill is in infiltrating those with power and authority. Yet in an interview some years ago with Thomas Kierman he said:
"You tell these bloody politicians whatever they want to hear, and once they deal is done you don’t worry about it. They’re not going to chase after you later if they suddenly decide what you said wasn’t what they wanted to hear. Otherwise they’re made to look bad and they can’t abide that. So they just stick their heads up their asses and wait for the blow to pass."
I underestimated Major. The more I read about him the more I realise just how straight and honest he was. He was let down by the squabbling of his party and making them, in my opinion, unelectable in 97. I'm still of that opinion. At the time I just didn't realise how unelectable Blair was.
It seems like there's a war going on, since Murdoch has become the news, and vulnerable, hacking, dowler, police corruption, US foreign corrupt practices act, and losing control of News Corp, including taking full control of cash cow Sky through failing the fit and proper test, fighting back by reminding the Tories of the trouble he can cause The Times out cash for supper Cruddas, while his arch enemies BBC/Guardian/the left in alliance with his other long list of enemies/competitors Telegraph, The Mail, sensing their best opportunity to topple him, throwing ITV digital, etc at him and horsegate at the Tories to remind them not to cave in.
A lot more being played out in public.
A lot more being played out in public.
I haven't watched the program in question but I do know that OnDigital was a disaster waiting to happen from start to finish. They banked on people paying a lot of money for Oxford Vs Cheltenham or whoever when the Premier League has been sapping local support from local teams for years. Their forcasts were highly optimistic and never even got close to what they expected. The sad thing is many teams balanced their books on the prospective income from Ondigital and many teams nearly went bust when OnDigital collapsed.
It also didn't help that the encryption standard they chose had been out for years and certainly wasn't state of the art or even secure. I don't think Sky or NDS or NI had anything to do with that, but the encryption they chose was widely recognised as being cracked already before OnDigital launched.
It also didn't help that the encryption standard they chose had been out for years and certainly wasn't state of the art or even secure. I don't think Sky or NDS or NI had anything to do with that, but the encryption they chose was widely recognised as being cracked already before OnDigital launched.
Mojooo said:
Eric Mc said:
They used other tactics on Virgin.
Such as?And, of course, at the moment Sky will not allow Virgin customers the HD version of their F1 channel and they also won't allow Virgin cistomers this lower grade version of the channel without buying Sky Sports as well - which makes it a lot more expensive for a Virgin customer to upgrade to Sky F1 SD than it does for a Sky customer to upgrade to Sky F1 HD.
Now, in this case, I am not saying that Sky are actually doing antything wrong. They own the rights to F1 coverage in the UK and it is up to them how they chose to allow the public access to "their" property.
The point I am making is that Sky will use any means they can. legitimate and possibly illegitemate, to knobble the opposition.
Eric Mc said:
News breaking this morning that News Corp were encouraging the pirating of TV rivals' cards in Australia as well.
This could be another big story.
If so, how could they have got away with such things for so long? It's not as if they've had any help from the various governments is it.This could be another big story.
I've noticed that leaders in The Times are not only supportive of the tories recently, as they have been since just before the elction, but positively sycophantic. I could write then after reading the press releases. No wonder people are leaving the paper in droves. So why are they sucking up to Cameron's lot? Anyone any ideas?
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