Premium rate Virgin Media cuts tech support jobs
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'Let's right-size our associate headcount!' Exclusive Virgin Media's recent decision to slap a premium rate charge on its technical support line seems to have had the desired off-putting effect on callers, as dozens of redundancies have been announced at its IBM-run call centre.â¦
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The BBC said on Tuesday it would eliminate 2,900 jobs, or more than 10 per cent of its workforce, as part of a cost-saving &quot;transformation&quot; of the world&#39;s biggest and best-known public broadcaster.
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Business & money: Sir Richard Branson's Virgin group left as frontrunner against in-house management team
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BSkyB today looked set to pull its major channels from the Virgin Media cable network at the end of this month after talks collapsed between the two rivals.
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The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are cutting 90 journalist jobs in order to fund investment in colour printing.
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Maneuvering to safeguard its future and reputation in the digital era, the BBC, Britain&#39;s public broadcaster, announced Tuesday some of the deepest job cuts in its 82-year history
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Carlyle's cash could come in handy Analysis: Private equity group Carlyle is bidding to take over Virgin Media, the UK's cable monopoly formerly known as NTL. We reckon Branson should take the money. He could get shot of the debt-burdened albatross, and put the money to good use elsewhere in the Virgin telco empire.â¦
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Apple 1, Branson 0 Virgin has closed Virgin Digital, its Windows Media-based alternative to Apple's iTunes. It stopped selling one-off downloads on Friday, though subscribers will still have access to their collections until their next monthly payment is due.â¦
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Broadcaster BSkyB warned today of a possible pounds 20m hit to profits if a row with Virgin Media leads to its basic channels being pulled from the cable network.
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LONDON The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced a major cost-cutting move, eliminating about 29-hundred jobs or more than a-tenth of its work force.
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Media & professional: Private equity group has made preliminary offer for Virgin Media, according to reports.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. will cut about 2,900 jobs - more than a tenth of its work force - in a drive to reduce costs, the company&#39;s director-general told staff on Tuesday.
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October launch for Lobster 700TV handset Virgin has announced an October launch for its Lobster 700TV handset, which can receive video and radio over the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) network.â¦
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Golden goose goosed ITV has cancelled all premium-rate phone-ins across its channels while auditor Deloitte checks the bills.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Virgin Group Ltd. will shut down its online music subscription and download service in the U.S. and U.K. next month, leaving one less competitor for Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store. In the U.K., Virgin Digital stopped selling tracks last Friday, and is no longer accepting new customers. As of Friday, only existing customers will be able to access the service, and the site will shut down for good on Oct. 19. The U.K. version of the site said users with more than one month of outstanding subscriptions will get a refund, but unused credits for song downloads should be used and won't be refunded. U.S. users of Virgin Digital will be able to use their credit on Napster LLC's music download service. The pending demise of Virgin Digital marks another casualty among online music stores, which have generally received lukewarm reception from consumers with the exception of Apple's market-leading iTunes service. Since Virgin Digital used digital rights management (DRM) technology from Microsoft Corp. to manage how songs could be played and transferred to portable devices, the service was not compatible with Apple's iPod line, which uses different DRM technology and file format. The Virgin Digital service allows customers to download tracks up to four more times to replace lost or damaged copies. Since that option will no longer be available when the store closes, the company advised customers who purchased tracks to back them up by burning the songs to a CD . Burning the tracks will let those customers re-import the tracks to the computer as MP3 files. Virgin also offered a subscription service that let people access an entire catalog of songs as long as they continued to pay the monthly fees. Those songs, which used Microsoft's DRM, would be unplayable if the person's subscription expired. Once the club closes, subscribers will also lose access to those songs. As part of the terms of subscription service, users were not allowed to burn those songs to CD. Virgin Digital officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the service's closure. The Virgin Digital store is not the only one to fold in the face of competition from Apple's iTunes -- or from illegal downloads. Last month, MTV Networks, which is owned by Viacom Inc., said it would merge its Urge music service with RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody service. Urge, which was a partnership between MTV and Microsoft launched in May 2006 that failed to effectively compete with iTunes. Â
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Urgent Exchange upgrade Virgin Media customers have been suffering email outages for several days, prompting the firm to call in Microsoft engineers to help with an urgent upgrade.â¦
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LONDON, February 27  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In this morning's edition of the Daily Telegraph BSkyB claims to have offered Virgin Media significant concessions and a new annual price of 90 pence per subscriber, or GBP32.4 million, for carriage of its basic channels on Virgin Media's network.