Media Guardian: BBC funding ‘up for discussion’, says Nadine Dorries, as licence fee frozen

Story from Media Guardian: 

The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, has confirmed that the BBC’s funding will be frozen for the next two years – but has softened her stance on the permanent abolition of the television licence fee.

BT Sport Takeover EXCLUSIVE: Disney enter race to buy or part own BT Sport

Three Media Boy Sources has told me overnight that DAZN, Discovery and Disney are in talks with BT over buying or part owning BT Sport.

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City AM: DAZN close to finalising BT Sport takeover in $800m deal

Story from City AM: 

Sports streaming service DAZN is edging closer to finalising a deal to snap up BT Sport in an $800m deal.

Ideal Shopping Direct sell its Create & Craft business to The Craft Store owner

Story from Ideal Shopping Direct: 

Ideal Shopping Direct Limited ("ISD") has today agreed to sell its business trading as Create and Craft to Hochanda Global Limited, operating as “The Craft Store” ("Hochanda").

Local BBC England regions goes HD on Virgin Media - But local news to follow by July

Is Virgin Media UK has today BBC One England HD to make way for BBC One HD England regions to launch on Virgin UK Channel 108. 

Rumour: Is Virgin Media set to launch BBC One HD England regions next week?

Is Virgin Media set to axe BBC One England HD to make way for BBC One HD England regions to launch on Virgin Channel 108 from January 11th?

CW Takeover - Warner Media/Discovery Inc merger - New York Post: ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia reportedly exploring sale of the CW

Story from New York Post:

WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS are exploring the possible sale of a significant stake or all of the CW Network, which they jointly own, according to a report late Wednesday.

Discovery-WarnerMedia merger - The Hollywood Reporter; AT&T CEO: No “Concern” So Far Over U.S. Approval for Discovery-WarnerMedia Merger

Story from The Hollywood Reporter: 

Telecom giant AT&T remains optimistic about the regulatory review process for the megamerger between its entertainment arm WarnerMedia and Discovery, CEO John Stankey told Citi’s AppsEconomy Conference on Wednesday.

Virgin Media UK cut CBBC HD feed to make room for BBC THREE HD to launch

Virgin Media has now cut CBBC HD feed from 24 hours a day to 5.30am til 7pm ahead of the relaunch of BBC THREE next month.

Discovery-WarnerMedia merger - TVB Europe: European Commission gives Discovery-WarnerMedia merger greenlight

Story from TVB Europe: 

The European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust approval of Discovery’s proposed acquisition of AT&T’s WarnerMedia business.

Warner Media/Discovery Inc merger - Variety: How David Zaslav Plans to Combine Discovery and WarnerMedia to Unleash ‘Shock and Awe’ on the Streaming Wars

Story from Variety:

David Zaslav is sad.

Jewellery Maker stop making Jewellery on Virgin Media

 Jewellery Maker is no longer available on Virgin UK Channel 756.

Best of 2021 - The winners and review of 2021

Here is the winners and review of 2021. 

01) The Biggest poster of the year on Cable Forum (NOT Media Boy HQ): 

Winner is - cheekyangus with 197 posts.

Confirm: 5Action replaces Paramount Network UK on January 19th

ViacomCBS will replaces both Paramount Network UK HD (Virgin UK Channel 150) and Paramount Network UK (Virgin UK Channel 187) with 5Action HD and 5Action on January 19th.

DS Forum - Rumour: Is ViacomCBS set to rebrand Paramount Network as 5Action???

A poster over on DS Forum has started a thread called 5Action, is it coming to Freeview? early today. But Media Boy HQ have been working to see if we can find anything on the web to back this rumour up with no luck.

Virgin Media Forum: Virgin Media to offer Virgin Media UHD channel for free this Christmas

Story from Virgin Media Forum:

From Saturday 18th December until Friday 31st December, Virgin TV customers with a Virgin TV 360 or V6 box can enjoy our Virgin TV UHD channel (CH 228/999) at no extra cost.

RXTV: The BBC has confirmed that CBBC HD Channel will close at 7pm from January 5th ahead of the relaunch of BBC THREE on February 1st

RXTV is reporting that CBBC HD Channel will close at 7pm from January 5th ahead of the relaunch of BBC THREE on February 1st.

EXCLUSIVE: Virgin Media did not launch Discovery + last month (UPDATE)

Media Boy HQ has been told in the last few days by two Media Boy Sources that Discovery + was set to launch on Virgin Media in November but for some reason Virgin Media did not flicked the switch.

BT Sport Takeover - Media Mole: Eurosport owner Discovery in talks over BT Sport involvement?

Story from Media Mole: 

Discovery is reportedly in talks with BT about getting involved with BT Sport as a joint-venture partner.

BBC News: Virgin Media outage hits UK TV viewers (UPDATED)

Story from BBC News Online:

Virgin Media customers were left without access to TV services, after the firm suffered a nationwide outage.