Chapter 528 Winner

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 others - most likely to be other American capital.

Moreover, this is unlikely at all. 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 help Murdoch smooth out the relationship, so what he could get was...

"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 thousands 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 have enough chips to win the friendship of Barron, the influential duke.

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 two met, 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 game packages, each with 23 games.

In the final bidding result, ITV won half of the total 6 game packages, that is, the broadcasting rights of 69 games in 3 game packages.

Sky TV only won 2 game packages, the broadcasting rights of 46 games.

The broadcasting rights of 23 games in the remaining game package were obtained 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 two "golden combination" broadcasting times 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 ITV won, a considerable part 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 accordingly.

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 Premier League broadcasting rights bidding, when Sky TV 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.

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 of News Corporation, and News International CEO Rebecca Brooks attended a hearing held by the Culture, Media and Sports Committee of the British Parliament on the phone-hacking scandal of the News of the World.

Murdoch felt "ashamed" about 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 find out when Murdoch and his son knew about the phone-hacking 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 him "whether he knew about the illegal behavior of his subordinates", Murdoch mostly responded with silence or "no".

He said that he was shocked, angry and ashamed that he did not know until two weeks ago that the News of the World reporter had wiretapped the text messages of the murdered girl Millie Dooley.

When the MP asked him whether he was responsible for the wiretapping scandal, Murdoch explicitly 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, and he could not know everything.

As for who should be responsible for the scandal, Murdoch said it was the people who 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 men 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 a very regrettable incident. 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 magically, 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 lotion in his hand to hit old Murdoch.

Everyone was shocked, even Murdoch's son, who was sitting next to him, 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 to slap the attacker, and 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 the time changed the public's previous impression of her.

All the media present were shocked by Deng Wendi's decisiveness and ruthlessness. She successfully made headlines in various countries with just one slap. Even Murdoch's News Corporation's stock price was boosted by 6% by her...