Channel 4 buys stake in Emap TV
477336
UK publisher Emap agrees to sell half its music television arm, The Box, to Channel 4 in a Â£28m deal.
472396
BT Group has sold its stake in the satellite operator Eutelsat as part of a growing focus on its core business. The sale marks BT&#39;s exit from the satellite business and ends a 25-year-old tie with the operator which it helped co-found in the late 1970s.
374694
Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore government, has been granted an option to take a 4.99 per cent indirect stake in Bharti Airtel, India&#39;s leading mobile phone operator, that could be worth about $2bn based on current market prices.
418452
Mexican broadcaster Televisa will  be allowed to buy a stake in cable company TVI only if it  agrees to offer its popular free channels to competitors,  Mexico's anti-trust agency said on Sunday.
70695
ITV shares rose 4.5% on Monday after reports of a possible takeover bid from private equity companies.
519604
Africa's largest media firm, Naspers Ltd , said on Tuesday it would buy UK Internet auction firm Tradus  for 946 million pounds ($1.90 billion) to extend its reach into central and eastern Europe.
218987
Satellite television provider EchoStar Communications has agreed to acquire Sling Media in a deal that values the maker of the Slingbox device at $380 million.
629437
An Australian-led consortium said it would buy the broadcast business of communications and entertainment group ntl Inc for 1.27 billion pounds.
612827
News Corp., the broadcaster owned by Rupert Murdoch, bought partner Telecom Italia SpA&#39;s stake in an Italian satellite television venture for 88 million euros ($108 million), giving News Corp.
74093
Channel 4 has failed in its bid to keep live cricket coverage on terrestrial TV after 2006, as the England and Wales Cricket Board finally awarded Sky Sports with blanket live rights in a four-year deal worth Â£220m today.
502935
Swisscom  has agreed to  repurchase a 25 percent stake in Swisscom Mobile from British  mobile phone company Vodafone  for 4.25 billion Swiss  francs ($3.48 billion), in a long-awaited deal.
29473
The four networks have been bought by consortia which include Scottish &amp; Southern Energy and United Utilities. Transco said that it would return about Â£2bn to shareholders following the sale and would increase its dividend for the current year by 20%.
326447
Endemol's  new owners will invest and look at acquisitions worldwide, John De Mol, who founded the television content company and is now buying it with Italy's Mediaset , told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.
496173
: Bertelsmann, the worldâs fourth-largest media group, is looking for acquisitions which could include part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, after its music and TV units helped triple half-year profits.
83201
British broadcaster Channel Four launched the country's first full online pay-per-view television service, under which users can download its programmes from the Internet.
132095
Germany is selling a E4.45 billion (R36.12 billion) stake in Deutsche Telekom, making it the fourth European government to sell state assets in the past six weeks
148240
Minister gets involved Trade and Industry minister Alastair Darling has asked Ofcom to investigate BSkyB's purchase of a 17.9 per cent stake in ITV. He wants the regulator to provide him with advice on whether the deal has public interest implications by 27 April. Ofcom said is also looking at the possible impact on programming.â¦