US: PACE TO AGREE CABLE TV DEAL?

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Pace Micro Technology may be poised to strike an agreement with a leading US-based cable TV business, it emerged on 1 February 2000. The UK-based manufacturer of decoder boxes used with satellite and digital TV is understood to be keen to boost its US presence and the unnamed cable TV business is said to have been impressed with technology, used in conjunction with OnDigital and Sky services.

United States, Pace Micro Technology PLC

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UK: TV CHANNELS COMPETE FOR FOOTBALL RIGHTS

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UK digital channel ONdigital has revealed that it has been holding talks with the Premier League for some months over a bid to secure rights to televise Premiership football. The bidding is to begin in March 2000, and it was thought until now that BSkyB and NTL of the US were the only contenders for the deal. ONdigital's entry to the race, possible in alliance with ITV, is expected to increase the cost of the live rights to more than GB[pound] 1bn. If there is a separation between free and pay-per-view games, ONdigital will restrict its interest to pay-per-view. It has recently launched two new channels, Onsports1 and Onsports2, and is soon to launch a pay-per-view service, Onrequest.

Marketing, Radio & TV Broadcasting, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Broadcasting industry, Broadcasting, ONdigital PLC

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UK: SONY AND BSKYB IN SET-TOP BOX DEAL

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Japanese electronics group, Sony, will provide 200,000 set-top boxes to BSkyB under a deal revealed on 24 August 2000. Sony's Welsh plant will assemble the equipment, which will be delivered in the run-up to Christmas 2000. BSkyB's move cements its leading player status in the battle to capture a slice of the digital TV market.

Household audio and video equipment, Television broadcasting stations, Radio & TV communications equipment, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, CATV Addressable Converters, Equipment and supplies, Sony Corp., British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, SNE, Set-top boxes (Television), BSY, Television equipment industry

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