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Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

Banijay

Comcast

EPL

Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the second largest pay-TV operator in the UK with four million video subscribers and 5.

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What Banijay’s Interest in Endemol Shine Tells Us About TV Show Fandom

Tim Mulligan

23 Oct 2019

Banijay

Big brother

Black Mirror

With Vivendi-backed Banijay on the verge of acquiring Endemol Shine this week, we are entering a new era of monetising fandom in the on-demand streaming era. Banijay is reportedly offering $2.2 billion to acquire the Disney/Apollo-owned production company famous for producing hits for two very different eras – the linear TV hit reality show Big Brother and the dystopian Sci-Fi streaming anthology hit Black Mirror.

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