List of TV and Radio channels in Great Britain

Guardian-branded FAST channel (Free Ad Supported Television)

Cyngor Cyfathrebu Cenedlaethol (National Communications Council) is the body to oversee broadcasting in Wales

## **TV providers**

1. BT TV (Box and Remote, EPG) – IPTV pay service run and owned by BT
2. EE TV (Box and Remote, EPG) – IPTV pay service run and owned by EE
3. eir Vision (Box and Remote, EPG) – IPTV pay service run and owned by Eircom (eir)
4. Freeview – Digital terrestrial television platform owned by Digital TV Group and transmitter operator Arqiva. Shows all free-to-air channels, requires an ariel. In Ireland instead of Freeview it's Saorview, owned by RTÉ.
5. ITV Digital (Box, Remote, EPG) – Satellite TV service owned by ITV plc
6. Sky Q (Sky Q Box and Remote, Now TV box & remote, Sky Q homepage, Sky Q EPG, Now TV EPG, Now TV homepage) – Satellite pay service run by Sky plc.
7. TalkTalk TV (Box and Remote, EPG) – IPTV pay service owned by TalkTalk Group
8. YouView (Box and Remote, EPG) – FTA channels and catch-up TV services by a 'hybrid' set-top box purchased by users, connected with both a broadband internet connection and a normal television aerial. No contract is required, and there is no subscription charge. Catch-up and on-demand content is delivered over the internet, which may be chargeable by the Internet service provider (ISP), or subject to limits and fair usage clauses.
9. Vodafone TV (Box and Remote, EPG) – Cable pay service owned by the Vodafone Group plc
10. Virgin Media (Box and Remote, EPG) – Cable pay service run by Virgin Media Limited (owned by Virgin Group)
11. UPC Broadband (Box, Remote, EPG) - Cable pay service (as well as broadband and phone) run by Liberty Global

## **Television content rating system**

British ratings are issued and certified by the British Board of Film and Television Classification (BBFTC), a non-governmental organisation

 **ParentalGuidance (PG)** | General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.
 **12** | Recommended for 12 years and older. Anybody under 12 may see it (at home), as long as parents or guardians say they can. Nobody younger than 12 may rent or buy a '12' rated video by themselves.
 **15** | Suitable only for 15 years and older. Nobody younger than 15 may see a '15' film in a cinema. Nobody younger than 15 may rent or buy a '15' rated video.
 **18** | Suitable only for adults. Nobody younger than 18 may see an '18' film in a cinema. Nobody younger than 18 may rent or buy an '18' rated video

## **Anti-siphoning laws**

Anti-siphoning laws and regulations are designed to prevent pay television broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them. When the country experienced growth in paid-subscription media, the British Parliament enacted the Broadcasting Act 2016 that gave free-to-air broadcasters essentially first refusal to certain sporting event broadcasting rights. The anti-siphoning list is a list of events, the televising of which should, be available free to the general public.

Currently, only sporting events are listed, even though the Broadcasting Act 2016 does not limit the types of events that can be listed. There are currently ten sport types (e.g. Football, Rugby and Cricket) on the anti-siphoning list plus the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. If free-to-air broadcasters decide not to purchase the broadcast rights for a particular event, any rights to listed sporting events that are not acquired by free-to-air broadcasters are available to pay TV.

### **Listed Events**

**Multi-sport events:**

* Olympic Games
* Winter Olympics
* Commonwealth Games

**Association football:**

* Highlights of the Premier League
* FA Cup final
* FIFA World Cup
* UEFA Euros
* Wales rugby matches (in Wales)
* England rugby matches (in England)
* Scotland rugby matches (in Scotland)

**Rugby:**

* Challenge Cup final
* Rugby World Cup final
* Wales rugby matches (in Wales)
* England rugby matches (in England)
* Scotland rugby matches (in Scotland)
* 6 Nations Championship
* Super Rugby League
* Highlights of British Isles tours

**Cricket:**

* England home Test matches
* Cricket World Cup
* ICC World Twenty20

**Other sports:**

* Wimbledon Championship tennis
* The Open golf
* Highlights of Ryder Cup

## **TV Commercials**

All TV commercials (except for live football) limited to a maximum of 5 minutes, with 3 minutes and 30 seconds of commercial + 1 minute and 30 seconds of promotional material (programme trailers). During live football (or soccer) commercial breaks last for 7 minutes and 30 seconds, usual showing sponsorship of the competition.

* 4 minutes pre-match managers interview (2 minutes for each manager)
* 9 minute and 30 seconds build up talking about the game, manager and players
* 2 minutes talking about the fixtures and table
* 7 minutes & 30 seconds commercial break
* 7 minute pre-match = Teams come out of the tunnel, coin toss, manager greeting and shaking hands
* (30 minutes before kick-off)
* 7 minutes & 30 seconds commercial break
* 6 minutes and 30 seconds analysis of the 1st half
* 1 minute of teams returning to the pitch
* (15 minute half-time break)
* 7 minutes & 30 seconds commercial break
* 4 minutes post-match managers interview (2 minutes for each manager)
* 4 minutes Interview with the Man of the Match and his captain
* 4 minutes Interview with losing captain

**UEFA Cup:**

1. FedEx
2. Kia Motors
3. Enterprise Rent-A-Car
4. Continental
5. M&M's
6. Molten is a secondary sponsor and supplies the official match ball
7. Macron supplies the referee uniform
8. Hublot is official fourth official board of the competition
9. UEFA No Room for Racism must be shown on every commercial break

**Super Rugby League**

1. Stobart Group - Official title sponsor
2. Land Rover - Programme sponsor
3. Dacia
4. Gillette
5. Batchelors
6. Specsavers
7. Shell Energy
8. Official rugby ball supplier is Steeden

* Digital Futures
* Welsh language broadcasting, the Green Paper and the BBC Charter
* New Welsh Multiplatform Broadcaster
* Inquiry into the future outlook for the media in Wales
* New National Curriculum Wales
* Welsh name should be used on the .cymru domain

## **Entertainment**

* BBC One joins the BBC's rolling news channel for a night of news. Unwind with BBC, your daily escape designed to calm the mind and encourage relaxation and reflection
* Sky One followed evening's schedule, the national weather forecast, a public information film (Sunday to Wednesday nights only) and finally, the clock which led straight into a rendition of the National Anthem (God Bless Our Native Land), played out over the ident.
* STV airs a nightly lineup of entirely Scottish programming, at least 95% of programming must be of Scottish origin from 7:00 pm to midnight from midnight until 7pm it simulcasts ITV with daytime sport and political programming opt-outs. STV News, features coverage of national and international headlines from a Scottish perspective.
* ITV Night Time branding from 12am until 6am.
* The Bill is brought back
* Ideal World plans to be the first UK shopping channel to broadcast in full high definition. New cameras are now in operation working in full HD. The channel is shut down. Ideal World and Create and Craft simulcast live broadcasts on ITV between 3am–5am (replacing Jackpot247, formerly Challenge Jackpot) and Channel 5 Nightscreen 5am until 6am
* The Jewellery Channel began simulcasting live broadcasts on 5Select between 12am–3am, shutting the channel down
* Never Mind the Buzzcocks is on BBC
* Love Island on ITV cancelled in 2020 after 4 people died by suicide
* Krypton Factor, Broken Skull Challenge, SAS: Who Dares Wins, Everyman, Heart of the Matter and Stars on Sunday on Sky One. God slot on Saturday on Sky One

### **News and Documentaries**

BBC: Click, Newswatch and Hardtalk. Krishnan Guru-Murthy is on BBC.

Steven Edginton ITV interviewer.

https://inews.co.uk/news/media/gb-news-plan-turn-superfan-viewers-paying-subscribers-980522

https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/16/gb-news-who-is-funding-the-channel-and-how-does-it-make-money-14782333/

Bloomberg, S4C News, RTÉ News, Euronews, [./https://alternatebritainwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/NBC\_Sky\_World\_News NBC Sky World News] and BBC Parliament became digital/online.

TalkTV (logo) (News Corporation) is launched as a digital media company (Provides news coverage as well as its own reporting and political commentary on current events with a liberal, progressive and globalist perspective), pivoting to “to provide live and on-demand video to streaming platforms, using our existing brands and our ability to tell stories and break news.”

1. Cristo with Cristo Foufas
2. Yasmin Khan
3. Ayesha Hazarika [show logo]
4. The Briefing with Gloria De Piero
5. The Rest is Politics with Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart
6. *The Political Party* hosted by Matt Forde (Unspun with Matt Forde is on BBC)
7. The Briefing AM with Tom Harwood
8. Jeremy Kyle [show logo]-Labour Party supporter
9. *The Talk* with Sharon Osbourne
10. Piers Morgan Uncensored
11. Trisha Goddard [show logo]
12. Robert Rinder [show logo]
13. Kait Borsay (Labour Party supporter)
14. Matt Chorley (Labour Party supporter)
15. Mariella Frostrup
16. Cathy Newman
17. Kemi Badnoch
18. Chuka Umunna
19. Caroline Flint
20. Guto Harri
21. The James Whale Show by James Whale
22. The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn (supports Lib Dems)
23. Jonny Gould-Sports presenter

**Rebel News** is a British right-wing conservative digital media and alt-media company

1. Neil Oliver Live a weekly current affairs and interview programme presented by Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver
2. Anna Williamson
3. The Pledge a panel discussion programme. There are currently 5 panellist and they will discuss a variety of topics - there is no presenter, so each panellist champions a topic which is then debated (Sky News never aired it)
4. Nick Ferrari
5. Nigel Farage
6. Summit.News with Paul Joseph Watson
7. Sophy Ridge on Sunday
8. Sarah-Jane Mee
9. Julia Hartley-Brewer Show
10. Voice of Wales with Dan Morgan, is a talk show and current affairs program includes political commentary, monologues, interviews, and analysis broadcasts at 11pm-12pm
11. Some Sanity with Morgan Zegres
12. You Are Here with Elijah Schaffer and Sydney Watson
13. Lewis Brackpool
14. Tea Time with Sam Towler & Laura Towler
15. Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
16. Sharri Markson
17. Isabel Brown
18. Rosie Wright
19. Kirsty Gallacher
20. Stephen Dixon
21. Emma Webb
22. Voice of Reason with Alex Belfield
23. Liam Halligan, economics and business editor
24. Anna Riley, Yorkshire reporter

(Dan Wootton is a showbiz reporter on ITV's morning show Lorraine)

(Darren McCaffrey is still on Euronews)

* Colin Brazier
* Jordan Rachel
* Jon Root

**BBC**

Emma Barnett

**LBC**

* Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
* Iain Dale
* Tom Watson
* Rebecca Hutson
* Maajid Nawaz
* Ruth Davidson
* David Lammy
* Natasha Devon
* Owen Jones

## **Sports**

Sky Sports Extra

Sky offered Sky Sports for free to broadband customers. Sky Sports is at Sky Campus, Isleworth, London, England. Back of the Net, The Club Show

Kelly Somers-BBC Football presenter

Emma Jones-Premier Sports presenters

Jill Douglas-ITV Rugby presenter

## **Channel 4** **and 5**

* The Wright Stuff is still on Channel 5 on weekday mornings from 9.30am to 11.30am. Maureen Lipman is on Celebrity Gogglebox.
* Big Brother is on Channel 5 in 2023
* This Morning is on Channel 5 from 11.30am to 1.30pm
* Tipping Point, Peston, Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs, The Masked Singer, Britain's Got Talent, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and Starstruck are Channel 4
* In for a Penny is on Channel 5
* Britain's Got Talent
* The Big Narstie Show
* Peston presented by Robert Peston
* Love Island
* Divorce Court by Faith Jenkins
* The Only Way Is Essex

Loose Women presented by Charlene White, Judi Love, Kelle Bryan, and Brenda Edwards

Rochelle Humes, Kelle Bryan, Charlene White and Stacey Solomon

Alex Beresford national weather presenter

https://www.channel4.com/4viewers/black-to-front-project

John Barnes Football on 5 presenter

Pundit

* Adam Hills-Channel 4 Rugby presenter
* Paul Ince

* Jobi McAnuff
* Jermaine Defoe
* Jermaine Beckford
* Ashley Cole
* Emma Hayes
* Robert Earnshaw
* Nadia Nadim
* Joleon Lescott
* David James
* Nigel de Jong-FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros pundit
* Patrick Vieira-FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros pundit

## **BT Sport**

https://archive.ph/VA1T5#selection-867.6-867.421

BT Sport DOSG score

Jo Ankier

Jenny Drummond

Pien Meulensteen

### Football personnel

1. Karthi Gnanasegaram
2. Seema Jaswal-Premier League presenter
3. Manish Bhasin-Premier League presenter
4. Kelly Cates-Premier League presenter
5. Vaishali Bhardwai-Premier League presenter
6. Kate Abdo-Premier League presenter
7. Katie Shanahan
8. Lynsey Hipgrave
9. Michelle Owen
10. Sarah-Jane Mee
11. Jules Breach
12. Rachel Stringer
13. Jaydee Dyer
14. Hayley Mcqueen-WSL presenter + News
15. Caroline Barker-Netball presenter
16. Jessica Creighton-*Inside the WSL* presenter
17. Gary Linekar-La Liga presenter

#### Pundits

1. Karen Carney (co-commentator)-EPL and Women's European Super League
2. Casey Stoney-EPL and Women's European Super League
3. Siobhan Chamberlain-EPL and Women's European Super League
4. Sue Smith-EPL and Women's European Super League
5. Shelly Kerr-EPL and Women's European Super League
6. Vivianne Miedema-EPL and Women's European Super League
7. Lucy Bronze-EPL and Women's European Super League
8. Eni Aluko-Women's European Super League
9. Fara Williams-EPL and Women's European Super League
10. Alex Scott-EPL and Women's European Super League
11. Casey Stoney
12. Emma Hayes
13. Ian Wright
14. Ashley Cole
15. Dion Dublin
16. Sol Campbell
17. Jobi McAnuff
18. Kevin Campbell
19. Les Ferdinand
20. Tim Sherwood
21. Paul Ince
22. Rio Ferdinand
23. Micah Richards
24. Andy Cole
25. Viv Anderson
26. Darren Bent
27. Jermaine Defoe
28. Dwight Yorke
29. David James
30. Robbie Earle
31. Jamie Redknapp
32. Emile Heskey
33. Mark Walters
34. Earl Barrett
35. Des Walker
36. Carlton Palmer
37. Kevin Campbell
38. Michael Johnson
39. Clinton Morrison
40. Tim Sherwood
41. Raphael Honigstein-Bundesliga pundit

Commentators

1. Robyn Cowan
2. Dave Farrar-Bundesliga & Ligue 1 commentary team
3. Steven Wyeth-Bundesliga & Ligue 1 commentary team
4. Kaylyn Kyle-La Liga and Ligue 1 color commentator
5. Stewart Robson-Serie A commentary team
6. Kevin Gallacher-Bundesliga commentator
7. Efan Ekoku-Co-commentator
8. Stan Collymore
9. Seb Hutchinson
10. Jacqui Oatley-Women's European Super League and EPL commentator
11. Lucy Ward-Women's European Super League
12. Martin Tyler and Rachel Brown-Finnis-EPL and Women's European Super League
13. Lynsey Hooper-Reporter
14. Reshmin Chowdhury-Reporter
15. John Salako-Reporter

Darts

## **Internet services**

To use Star Trek Discovery as an example the first run could be on CBS's streaming service and the CBS service could also offer some kind of commentary. The episodes, but not the commentary could them be offered to Hulu to show with a one week delay, and offered to Netflix and Amazon to stream once the season is complete. Then if you want the fastest and best experience you go directly to CBS, if you can't wait very long but want shows from multiple sources you subscribe to Hulu and if you are patient you wait for Netflix/Amazon. Piracy becomes a much less appealing option because you are likely to subscribe to at least one of those options. You lose some control by not being exclusive but you have multiple things to offer to entice people into becoming paying customers.

I’m not convinced that this sort of “vertical integration” — streaming platforms becoming producers of the content they stream — does much for content production. I can see how it gives a streaming platform a temporary competitive edge.

It seems to me we’d all be better off if content producers concentrate on producing worthwhile content and streaming providers concentrate on providing a cost-effective, high-quality customer experience independent of what is being streamed. If it were up to me, all content ever once made public in video form would be available on all streaming platforms; the platforms would compete over how well they do their job (making it easy for their customers to watch what they want to see, when and where they want to see it, at a price that feels fair) and the producers would compete over how well they do theirs (selecting worthwhile creative projects and matching them to appropriate funding). I don’t see how anyone is helped by competition over how clever one group is at locking up the work of the other.

As I suggested in another comment, a reasonable half-way step that’s consistent with existing copyright practice would be to establish compulsory licensing so that once content is streamed it can only remain exclusive to a specific streaming service for a limited period of time.

BBC iPlayer, 13 July 2012 (on demand), Superseded by BBC Select

(SeeSaw was never introduced in 2009)

**Germany**

1. Sky Eins (One)
2. Sky Zwei (Two)
3. Sky Krimi (crime)
4. Sky Cinema Premieren (Premier)
5. Sky Cinema Klassiker (Classics)

Rest like in real life

**Italy**

1. Sky Arte (arts)
2. Sky Crimine (crime)
3. Sky Cinema Famiglia (family)
4. Sky Cinema Commedia (comedy)
5. Sky Cinema Passione (passion)
6. Sky Cinema Culto (cult)
7. Sky Cinema Classico (classic)
8. Sky Cinema Collezione (collections)

Rest like in real life

**New Zealand**

1. Sky Pick - free to air (irl Prime)
2. Sky Living (irl Vibe)
3. Sky One (irl Sky5)
4. Sky Two (irl Jones!)
5. Sky Three (irl Jones! too)
6. Sky Atlantic (irl SoHo)
7. Sky Arts
8. Sky News
9. Sky Cinema Premiere
10. Sky Cinema Action
11. Sky Cinema Greats
12. Sky Cinema Family
13. Sky Cinema Comedy
14. Sky Cinema Thriller
15. Sky Cinema Drama
16. Sky Cinema Sci-Fi & Horror
17. Sky Sports Main Event
18. Sky Sports News
19. Sky Sports Arena
20. Sky Sports Action
21. Sky Sports Cricket
22. Sky Sports Netball
23. Sky Sports Motors
24. Sky Sports Golf
25. Sky Sports Football

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) never leaves New Zealand so Sky Movies Vintage does not exist

**Spain**

* Sky Uno (One)
* Sky Dos (Two)
* Sky Cinema Estrenos (Premiere)
* Sky Cinema Acción (Action)
* Sky Cinema Familia (family)
* Sky Cinema Clásicos (Classics)
* Sky Noticias (News)
* Sky Deportes Uno (one)
* Sky Deportes Dos (two)
* Sky Deportes Más (more)
* Sky Deportes La Liga

## **Changes**

* Rupert Murdoch and his family are Scottish-Australian with no connections to America, Rupert was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia but his parents were born in Cruden, Scotland (his grandfather was born in Aberdeenshire). Rupert married Anna Murdoch Mann, a Scottish journalist and novelist (who has Scottish parents also). Rupert and his family are part of the United Free Church of Scotland. His sons Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch were both born in London in Elgnad, daughter Elisabeth Murdoch were born in Melbourne, Victoria. Within the News Corp business structure Rupert Murdoch is the Owner and Chairman, Lachlan Murdoch is the CEO, James Murdoch is the Executive Director and Robert James Thomson is the COO.
* News Corp still owns Amplify Education (Dow Jones & Company and Wireless Group are independent companies and they own Smooth Radio Group), Sky News Australia is Fox News Australia
* Crime & Investigation is Sky Investigation. Sky Group owned Sky History and Sky H2 since the beginning and the channels are called that from the beginning.
* In 1995, RTL Group own 100% of Channel 5 before selling to ViacomCBS in 2010 for £450 million. ViacomCBS would sell all its British media assets to Northern & Shell in 2014 for £103.5 million on 1 May 2014
* In 2006, Apax Partners, Blackstone and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs purchased ITV for £5.37 billion
* In June 2010, News Corp purchase 61% of Sky Group in 2010, already owns 39% for £12 billion however must sell off Sky News for "editorial independence". Comcast purchased Sky News and rebranded it "[./https://alternatebritainwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/NBC\_Sky\_World\_News NBC Sky World News]"
* On 15 August 2011, Virgin Media agreed to sell its 50% stake UKTV to Discovery (the other 50% was owned by BBC Worldwide). BBC UKTV (UKTV Gold), BBC Entertainment (Watch), BBC Lifestyle (UKTV Gardens).
* On 16 February 2016, BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 1 Xtra, BBC Regional radio stations and BBC's language channels: Arabic, Bangla, Nepali, Brasil, Hausa, Mundo, Persian, Russian and Urdu were all also shut down to 'save money'. Outside broadcast policy was also stopped
* In an agreement between Discovery and BBC Worldwide, Dave, BBC UKTV, Watch and Eden will 100% BBC Worldwide the rest will be 100% Discovery Communication on the 30 March 2019.
* Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Sony Max and Sony SAB were all shut down on 9 June 2020
* Horse & Country TV was shut down on the 5 October 2020
* 1 February 2021
* [./https://alternatebritainwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/ITV ITV plc] purchased Lionsgate for $3.8 billion on April 2021; Remember back in 2016 when eOne, prior to its acquisition by Hasbro, rejected a bid to be acquired by British television broadcaster ITV? That's a unique example of ITV trying to diversify, with very little luck. In the age of streaming, ITV is currently trying to expand its horizon's a bit. So, what better way to do that than buying out a little mini-major film studio? This is where Lionsgate comes in. Lionsgate's future has been in deep question since January 2018. At that point, Amazon, Verizon, Comcast, and even the future ViacomCBS were being looked at as potential suitors. As speculation continues to mount about who could possibly buy it, I imagined recently what would happen if ITV decided to buy Lionsgate in an effort to diversify into film production. Now I know this prediction sounds odd, seeing as ITV is a British company, but ITV Studios - the company's content production/distribution arm, does operate internationally (most notably in USA, where it's the like the largest unscripted producer in the country) could do with some well-established IP, namely a couple on the cinematic front. I believe that Lionsgate's films and franchises, most notably the Saw, The Hunger Games, and John Wick franchises, as well as Lionsgate's sister studios (like Roadside Attractions, for example) could benefit under the ITVS fold. If that were to happen though, Lionsgate's TV arm would be folded into ITVS's US division, inheriting the existing TV programs currently produced by Lionsgate. Of course, Lionsgate also owns a handful of TV channels, including the U.S. premium network Starz, which brings us to a crossroads of sorts. Starz (as well as Lionsgate's stake in Celestial Tiger Entertainment) will continue to be owned by ITV
* Lionsgate acquires the assets of The Weinstein Company (Lantern Entertainment).
* On 14 May 2021, Sony UK TV channels were all closed
* BBC announced BBC Four, CBBC, BBC Kids, BBC Gold, BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC News Channel will be removed in January 2020 and its content moved to BBC iPlayer, after the British Government announces the scrapping of the TV Licence fee. The new streaming service is called BBC Select. BBC Parliament was kept as 24/7 linear tv channels (In July 2018, the BBC announced that the output on the channel was to be cut back, discontinuing all programming produced for the channel other than parliamentary coverage, and closing the channel entirely during summer months when Parliament and the devolved assemblies are not sitting). This was all owned by BBC Worldwide [source, source 2]
* BBC closed down BBC Radio 4 Extra. BBC Radio 5 Live to close AM transmitters & Radio 4 to cease Long Wave service
* Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network Two, Cartoonito, Boomerang and TCM will be shut down and removed in 2nd quarter of 2022 due all of its channel's content will be transferred exclusively to streaming service HBO Max.
* Russia Today had their license revoked and closed down in 2 March 2022 following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the channel ceased operations of all live programming, with T&R Productions indicating the layoffs of all off- and on-air staff would be permanent

EA Sports assets are moved to London Studios. EA does not purchased Codemasters, it's still owned by Codemasters Group Holdings plc which is publicly traded and owns The Codemasters Software Company Limited

All3Media are owned by the Chrysalis Group

Power to control companies such as YouTube, Netflix, Google, Apple to ensure that all content in Welsh, including video, programs and film, is prioritized, eg considering creating YouTube Wales, other than 'YouTube GB'

#### **Sports changes over the years**

* Screensport was launched in 1984 with ESPN Inc. 25.5% and WHS TV 74.5%, which aired greyhound racing, British speedway, stock cars, ice speedway, Dutch ice hockey, motor sport, Football League Super Cup, Football League Trophy, US Masters golf from Augusta, and many other PGA Tour events. Grand Slam tennis was also covered in the shape of the US Open. NHL ice hockey, NBA and NASCAR racing, highlights of The Football League and transmitted 34 recorded matches via cable and satellite. On 15 May 1991, Screensport filed with the Commission of the European Communities, alleging that the joint purchasing scheme for sporting events by Eurosport's former owners, Sky Television plc and the European Broadcasting Union, violated the competition antitrust law rules of the Treaty of Rome. After provisions were made for non-member access to the programming, the Commission granted the EBU in a 5-year conditional exemption from the requirements of the competition rules. On 28 February 1992, Screensport forged an alliance with ITV Sport to bid for rights to coverage of the newly formed English Premier League. Sky Sports and the BBC were the eventual winners of the contract. On 14 January 1993, Eurosport and Screensport proposed a merger to provide a single channel, as both channels were operating at a loss. The hope was that a merged channel would become financially profitable. The merger finally took place on 1 March of this year and that same day, Screensport was shut down for good
* The European Broadcasting Union was acquiring substantial amounts of sports rights, yet its members were only able to broadcast a fraction of them. This provided the impetus for setting up the Eurosport Consortium, made up of several EBU members, to establish an outlet where these rights could be exploited. Sky Television plc was chosen as a commercial partner, and Eurosport was launched at 6pm on 5 February 1989. In 1991 TF1 Group replace BSkyB as joint-owners. On 21 December 2012, Discovery Communications purchased a 20% stake in Eurosport from TF1 Group for €170m, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company. On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture
* British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) launches and among the channel line-up is a sports channel called The Sports Channel in 1990. Following the merger between Sky TV and BSB, BSB’s Sport Channel closes and is replaced the next day by Sky Sports in 1991. Initially aired sports such as FA Cup football, rugby and golf before acquiring rights to German and Italian league football and then won rights to Premier League. On 19 August 1994, a secondary channel called Sky Sports 2 was launched often used at weekends. On 1 November 1995, Sky launched a classic sports channel called Sky Sports Gold, however the channel ceased broadcasting after only a year on the air. On 16 August 1996, Sky launched Sky Sports 3, the original channel was renamed to Sky Sports 1. Sky Sports also acquired the rights to Scottish football and the League Cup. On 1 September 1997, Sky Sports 2 became a full-time service. With the launch of the Sky Digital satellite platform on 1 October 1998, Sky Sports launched Sky Sports News, a channel carrying rolling sports news coverage, followed by Sky Sports 4 in August 1999. Sky Sports F1 was launched 9 March 2012 after Sky won exclusive rights to Formula One. On 12 August 2012, Sky launched a new channel called Sky Sports 5, which would be dedicated primarily to European football, including UEFA European Championship qualifiers, La Liga, Eredivisie and others
* ITV Sport Channel was launched on 2001 (by a joint venture between Carlton Communications and Granada plc) and successfully outbid BSkyB for the rights to show live matches from The Football League, the League Cup and Football League Trophy, for a massive £315m over 3 seasons, at least 5x more than any broadcaster had previously bid for it. They also showed 40 live Premier League matches, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, ATP Masters Series tennis, Snooker, British basketball and boxing from the United States. The channel also acquired rights to rugby. The cost of the Football League deal proved one too many a burden for ITV Digital, and it was placed into administration on 27 March 2002, after the League refused to accept a £130m pay cut in its £315m deal with the ITV Sport Channel. Most subscription channels ceased broadcasting on ITV Digital on 1 May 2002, with the ITV Sport Channel being re-designated as a free-to-air channel. The Football League sued ITV Digital's parent companies, Carlton and Granada, claiming that the firms had breached their contract in failing to deliver the guaranteed income. The League lost the case, with the judge ruling that it had "failed to extract sufficient written guarantees". The League then filed a negligence claim against its lawyers for failing to press for a written guarantee at the time of the deal with ITV Digital. This time it was awarded a paltry £4 in damages of the £150m it was seeking. The channel closed on 11 May 2002 after its coverage of the Division 2 play-off final between Brentford and Stoke
* Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports launch in 2004 winning rights to England's qualifiers for 2010 World Cup, FA Cup, 40 live Premier League matches, Scottish Premier League, Conference, Indian Premier League cricket, PGA Tour golf and secondary rights to Super Rugby League. Their decisions to expand too quickly on sports proved costly as Setanta Sports ceases broadcasting in the UK after going into administration on 22 June 2009. The closure means that sister channels Setanta Golf and Setanta Sports News also stop broadcasting and from this date, football club channels Celtic TV and Rangers TV, which were sold as part of the Setanta package, close although both later relaunch as online only channels. Arsenal TV does continue but closes just over a month later
* NASN launches to show live and recorded coverage of North American sports in 2002, ESPN buys NASN in 2007.
* In June 2009, Al Jazeera Sport announced they will take over Setanta Sports rights (except for PGA Tour golf which went back on Sky Sports, IPL cricket which went on ITV4 and SRL went back to Sky).
* In 2011, Al Jazeera Sport sold to ESPN
* BT acquired ESPN's British TV channels business. BT continued to broadcast at least 1 ESPN branded channel as part of its BT Sport package of services, rebranding ESPN as BT Sport ESPN. BT launches 3 new channels (BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and BT Sport 3) and takes over ESPN rights but adds many more such as exclusive rights to European club football, Australian cricket, West Indies cricket, WWE, IAAF World Indoor Athletic Championships and shared 3 rugby rights with Sky: European Professional Club Rugby, 8 Nations Championship and Super Rugby League.
* Sky Sports Box Office was launched on 16 March 1996, which showed boxing fights, WWE PPV's (moved to BT Box Office on 2012) and select football matches from the Premier League live were moved on the PPV channel, PL football ended on Box Office in 2007. On 4 January 2017 Sky Sports Box Office was closed due to Boxing fights were moved DAZN and a lack of 'appetite' for PPV channels. On the 15 September 2014 'BT Sport Box Office' was launched with WWE PPV's, Boxing fights and UFC events on the PPV channel. BT Sport Box Office was closed down on 24 January 2017 with WWE moving their 'PPV's' (the name was replaced with NSE - Network Special Event or Supercards) to the WWE Network exclusively,

## **Internet**

The following is banned in Britain:

* Any website that promotes or sympathizes Neo-Nazism, and White supremacy websites including Nordic Resistance Movement, The Daily Stormer, Stormfront, Vanguard News Network and Renegade Tribune
* Curvage.org (promoting obesity and "fat acceptance/fat positivity)
* Jewish Internet Defense Force
* Tik Tok (national security threat)
* All pornography sites (non-consensual pornography, child porn and charges of sex trafficking. This was a month after Visa and MasterCard cut their services and block payments to Pornhub)
* 4chan
* 8kun
* Omegle (lack of meaningful age checks, being paired on the site with young boys abusing themselves. The investigation also said it found numerous adult men naked or performing sexual acts on camera on the site)
* Dailymotion (hosting videos pertaining to ISIS propaganda and violations of copyright law)

All websites banned for copyright reasons (such as The Pirate Bay) were uplifted as was Guido Fawkes, sherights.org, Philip Daby Porsche Dealership, From Homes to Istanbul, \*Bish, EWRSAC, Reducing the Risk of Domestic Violence, Sexual Health Scotland.

All social media sites are not available in Britain with the following exceptions:

* PEERtrainer
* GameFAQs
* Travellerspoint
* The Student Room
* Portfolium
* Koofers
* Edmodo
* Fieldoo
* Athlinks
* Wattpad
* Quora
* Stack Overflow
* Stage 32
* beBee
* PatientsLikeMe
* ReverbNation
* Indaba Music
* BitClout
* DailyStrength
* The Sphere
* Amikumu
* italki
* Duolingo
* TermWiki
* Experts Exchange
* CrossFit
* Fishbrain
* Fitocracy
* Inspire
* MyHeritage
* CaringBridge
* Chess.com
* Cucumbertown
* I Had Cancer
* Focus.com
* yelp
* Viadeo
* LinkedIn
* ICQ
* All messaging services (e.g. Kik, Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp)
* Discord
* YouTube
* Gab
* Cozy.tv

Public channels of Telegram will be subject to the same regulatory rules as the Facebook and Twitter social networks

All wikis, Steam, CafeMom and Kobo are not social networking sites

Labroots is a news and educational virtual events and webinars rather than a social network site

MEETin shut down on April 4th, 2021

Rumble was shut down on December 14, 2021 after the company filed for bankruptcy due to a lack of funding and money

Mobile phones are banned from schools, Wi-Fi connectable smartphones could need to be left at home or left in pupils’ bags during school hours and parents may be encouraged to buy old-fashioned 'brick phones' for kids

Online HFSS (High in Fat, Sugar or Salt) ads and gambling ads are banned. SMEs (fewer than 250 employees) advertising products that they manufacture or sell, (Non-paid for) marketing in brands’ own media (e.g. websites, organic social content) and B2B ads will remain.

## **Sony PS5 Digital**

If Sony wanted to pull a real power move with this digital edition, they would allow digital game trading. They could make gamers, publishers, and their investors happy at the same time. Here's how I would do it:

* Establish a marketplace for digital game trading on the PlayStation. It's Ebay, but for digital games.
* Take a 15% cut of each transaction. 10% to the publisher, and 5% to Sony.
* Establish a price floor of, say, 70% of the current new cost of the game. (The floor moves when the game gets discounted in the PS Store.)
* Allow free trades to long-established friends.
* You can only trade a game after you've had it for one month.

This solution would not cannibalize new game sales too much due to the various trading restrictions, and it would also basically steal some of Ebay/Amazon's used game revenue. It would make the digital edition much more attractive for gamers, but would also go a long way toward placating publishers who worry about the cost of game trading to their bottom lines. The new revenue stream could offset the discount they'll be offering on the digital edition of the PS5.

## **Radio**

### **England**

Chrysalis Group

Tindle Radio Group

NIOCOM

South West Radio