Sentence examples for buy channels from inspiring English sources

In the meantime, the company can buy channels cheaply.

In his testimony, he suggested solving the problem by allowing consumers to buy channels a la carte, picking only those they wanted.

The broadcaster is in negotiations to buy Channel TV from privately owned company Yattendon Group.

"Given its cash flow and balance sheet, BT could certainly afford to buy Channel 4, even after the EE acquisition.

In early May, MTV-owner Viacom paid £450m to buy Channel 5 from Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell.

Rivals including BSkyB and Discovery, which was considered the frontrunner to buy Channel 5, have expanded their operations into the free-to-air market.

Who'd want to buy Channel 5? Richard Desmond is hawking Channel 5 for an astonishing £700m barely three years after he bought the broadcaster from the Luxembourg-based media company RTL for a bargain £103.5m.

The 10-year deal is understood to have been one of a number of contracts renegotiated when Desmond stumped up £103.5m to buy Channel 5 in 2010, but it is understood the IM provides little insight.

It is more than a decade since the law was changed to allow Murdoch to buy Channel 5 in the 2003 Communications Act, the so-called "Murdoch clause" removing the fifth channel from the ban on ownership of terrestrial TV stations by companies with more than 20% of the national newspaper market.

And it was OFCOM, itself a statutory regulator, which recently judged Mr Desmond a fit person to buy Channel 5 – this AFTER he'd quit the PCC, effectively holing self-regulation below the line......I believe the time has come to debate the need for some kind of Newspaper Industry Ombudsman – possibly sitting in tandem with the commission – to deal specifically with press standards.

Darroch also commented on Viacom's imminent deal to buy Channel 5. BSkyB handles Viacom's UK TV advertising – its largest deal – and some observers believe there is a possibility that the US company could break away and form its own TV ad sales house following the takeover.