Rebirth of England.

Even if Barron's can drive News Corporation out of England, their current BSkyB and News International Group cannot be sold to Barron's, but will only be sold to others - most likely other American capital.

What's more, this is simply impossible. With Murdoch's methods, the worst result is to survive with a broken arm.

In the original time and space, Murdoch finally "overcame the crisis" by closing the News of the World, stopping the overall acquisition of Sky TV, and resigning several senior executives...

Now, even with Barron's added firepower, I'm afraid that if Murdoch directly sells News International Group - at the worst, giving up his newspaper media and publishing business in the UK - he will be able to escape unscathed.

As for the investigation in the United States, for him, it was 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 in this process, Barron at most promised not to cause trouble, or even take the initiative to help Murdoch clear the relationship, so what he can get...

"In fact, Your Highness the Duke, we are not necessarily competitors. If we can cooperate, we can actually get the greatest benefits from each other..."

Although Barron didn't have a good impression of these cunning Jews, he also understood that in their position, it can be said that everyone has already formed thousands of branches at all levels, just like the roots of a tree, extending out inextricably. Relationships and context.

It is simply unrealistic to uproot any family at once. The final battle is always the result of mutual compromise after collisions.

And when the other party can bring benefits to you, reason will eventually prevail.

Unless it's that kind of life-and-death hatred.

Of course, everyone can say nice things, but this time, it wasn't just Barron who made things difficult for Murdoch - the other party just 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 relevant parliamentary questions.

In addition, he will definitely need to use enough chips to gain the friendship of Barron, the influential Duke.

I believe Murdoch can understand this - after all, if it were him, I'm afraid he wouldn't let this opportunity go, or even worse.

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After the meeting between the two, the Premier League's bid for broadcast rights soon came to fruition.

After a tacit understanding between the two most competitive buyers, Sky TV and SEM Group's ITV...

As mentioned before, in this bidding, a total of 138 Premier League games will be divided into 6 game packages, with 23 games in each game package.

As a result of the final bidding, ITV obtained half of the total 6 game packages, which is the broadcasting rights for 3 games in 69 game packages.

Sky TV only received 2 game packages and the broadcast rights of 46 games.

The broadcast rights for the remaining 23 games in a game package were obtained.

It can be said that Sky TV lost to ITV in this bidding for the Premier League broadcast rights, which will inevitably affect their subsequent sports channel user subscriptions...

The only slight consolation for Sky TV is that one of their two game packages includes the two "golden combination" broadcast times of Sunday at 4pm and Saturday at 12:45pm. The 23 games in the other game package are mostly "garbage time" games like Monday night at 8 o'clock and Saturday evening at 5:15 p.m.

The other game package, which was almost all in the "garbage period", was bought at a slightly lower price.

Even so, it defeated the video platform owned by BT.

They will provide live broadcast and video playback services of these games to users 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 won by ITV, a considerable part are in prime time, and the remaining games are better than "garbage time". It can be said that they are the three highest quality game packages...

Of course, correspondingly, they also need to pay more broadcast fees to the Premier League.

This time there are a total of 138 games. ITV, Sky TV and three buyers need to pay a total of 17 billion pounds in broadcast fees to the Premier League.

This is a 10.24% increase compared to the 66.6 billion pounds that Sky TV paid to the Premier League in the previous bidding for Premier League broadcast rights.

Considering that there are 138 league broadcasts per season, the average broadcast fee for each league game has risen from the current 247 million pounds to 476 million pounds.

In addition, the Premier League will soon complete the sale of global broadcast rights, mobile phone information release rights and highlight programs, with total revenue expected to be close to 25 billion pounds.

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On March 3, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, his son James Murdoch, who is responsible for European affairs of News Corporation, and Rebecca Brooks, chief executive of News International Group, discussed the "News of the World" The wiretapping scandal attended a hearing held by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British Parliament.

Murdoch was "ashamed" of the incident when questioned by lawmakers 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 ask questions about when the Murdochs first knew about the wiretapping at the News of the World and what measures they took in response.

This is the first time Murdoch has faced a parliamentary inquiry in more than 40 years since he owned the British media.

He and his son James both appeared in front of lawmakers wearing dark suits and blue ties.

Murdoch said early in the hearing that this was the "most humbling" day of his life.

When asked by members of Congress whether he was aware of his subordinates' illegal conduct, Murdoch mostly responded with silence or "no."

He said he was shocked, angry and ashamed until two weeks ago when he learned that News of the World reporters had tapped the text messages on the mobile phone of murdered girl Millie Dole.

When asked by lawmakers whether he was responsible for the wiretapping scandal, Murdoch made it clear he refused to take responsibility.

He argued that News Corp. has more than 53000 employees worldwide and "News of the World" accounts for only 1% of its global business. It is impossible for him to know everything.

As for who should be held responsible for the scandal, Murdoch said it was the people he once trusted running the newspaper and who they once trusted.

Murdoch also admitted that he had neglected the operations of the newspaper and rarely communicated with the newspaper's editor-in-chief. Plus, his people lied to him.

Murdoch said he has seen no evidence that reporters from his media outlets tapped the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, and does not believe the FBI will find evidence to prove that this happened.

Murdoch's son James said at the hearing that the wiretapping scandal was inexcusable and an extremely regrettable incident, and he expressed his apology to the victims in the incident.

He said the newspaper had not acted to the standards expected of them and would ensure such an incident did not happen again in the future.

As for the famous scene of this hearing in Barron's previous life, it happened miraculously again, just like small changes in history always need to face its inertia...

In the middle of the hearing, a man hit Murdoch Sr. with foam shaving lotion in his hand.

Everyone was shocked, even Murdoch's son, who was sitting closest to him, completely lost his reaction.

However, Wendy Deng, who was behind Murdoch, jumped up from her seat with lightning speed and rushed forward to protect her husband.

With the power of lightning, she passed over a woman, then raised her hand and slapped the attacker, and then poured foam shaving lotion onto the attacker's face. The whole process took no more than two minutes.

It can be said that Wendy Deng's behavior at that time changed the public's previous impression of her.

The media present were all shocked by Wendy Deng's decisiveness. She also made headlines in various countries with just one slap. Even Murdoch's News Corporation's stock price rose by 6% due to her slap...