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Even though the FTSE All-Share Index is more comprehensive, the FTSE 100 is by far the most widely used UK stock market indicator. Other related indices are the FTSE 250 Index (which includes the next largest 250 companies after the FTSE 100), the FTSE 350 Index (which is the aggregation of the FTSE 100 and 250), FTSE SmallCap Index and the ...
Cable & Wireless plc was a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, but it sold its cable assets to NTL in 2000.
United Artists Programming initiates a trial project to provide coverage of Yesterday in the Commons to cable networks across the UK. [22] 1992. The major cable companies join to form 'Cable Programme Partners One (CPP1)', to try to provide alternative content to the satellite-dominated multi-channel environment of the time.
This consisted of the major cable companies in the United Kingdom working together a provide national Internet access service. [5] In March 1998, Telewest announced a merger with General Cable, [6] and acquired the outstanding interest in Birmingham Cable, adding a further 1.7 million franchise homes in Yorkshire, west London and Birmingham. [7]
LONDON -- The shares of Premier Oil have climbed 1.4% as of 10:30 a.m. EDT after the oil company revealed full-year earnings of $252 million. The FTSE 250 member, which boasts investments and ...
Share Partner General information Australian News Channel: 33.3% [123] Seven Network and Nine Entertainment and operated Sky News Australia: Sold to News Corp Australia: Bad Wolf: minority HBO, BBC Studios: Sold to Sony Pictures Television [128] [129] Beamly: 10% Sold to Coty: Nickelodeon UK: 40% [123] Paramount Networks UK & Australia, part of ...
The UK subsidiary's name was changed from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited, and continuing to trade as "Sky". Sky UK Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast -owned Sky Group, with its current company directors (including that of Sky Ireland ) being Executive Vice-president Stephen van Rooyen Its corporate headquarters ...
Virgin TV, the digital cable television service from Virgin Media, currently ranks as the UK's second largest pay TV service, having 3.6m subscribers, compared to BSkyB's 8.2m as of Q3 2007. [ 86 ] Currently [update] 55% of UK households potentially have access to Virgin's network, [ 87 ] while anyone in the UK with a line-of-sight view of the ...