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Sky to become Fox ot something else?
john_hunter
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Hi all,
With the very good news that Mr M is finally being allowed to take over BSKYB.
Does anyone think he'll rebrand to FOX or something else? I personally like the name- Fox.
Any thoughts?
Please don't make this into a bashing the takeover thread etc.
With the very good news that Mr M is finally being allowed to take over BSKYB.
Does anyone think he'll rebrand to FOX or something else? I personally like the name- Fox.
Any thoughts?
Please don't make this into a bashing the takeover thread etc.
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I don't think it'll happen personally.
Can you imagine...
Sky1 > Fox1
Sky Atlantic > Fox Atlantic
Sky Living > Fox Living
Sky2 > Fox2
Sky Movies > Fox Movies
Sky Sports > Fox Sports
Sky Arts > Fox Arts
Sky Broadband > Fox Broadband
Why should he? The Sky brand is well established and succesful. Rebranding would just cost a shedload of money without any significant benefit.
The Sky brand is also used in many other countries for their satellite pay TV, so I doubt it will be re-branded as Fox.
Shame I really like the name Fox, don't really like the name Sky as such.
This is not good news.
This is extremely bad news. You can bet now this is going to happen there will be channel closures and an immediate closure of freesat from sky and they are very likely to pull out of freeview. News Corporation don't do free stuff.
There is no way things will be the same again. Goodbye to a lot a free TV. This is a shame.
Sky name and branding is more well known and used in other markets around the World than Fox in terms of television, so I think it is unlikely. Sky branding is also used in Asia, The Middle East and pretty much everywhere else Murdoch's empire reaches via satellite. They only use Fox in the US.
Why would he change Sky in any way, wouldn't he have done this before when he owned it lock, stock & barrel or are you forgetting he once owned it all and Sky was his baby ?
News Corp have constantly stated the acquisition is purely financial
However.......
Expect FX to get more support, more new shows and maybe an FX2.
Also......Sky2.......maybe not, maybe FOX Channel or somekind of FOX branded channel.
Movies......expect more 20th Century Fox movies, earlier and WAY more on Anytime+
And Higher Bills for the viewers............
The earth will not end, things will carry on, the changes to 99.9999999% of our collective lives brought about by the Sky transaction will be approximately nil.
Sky1 to Fox.....mmmm, possible
The OTHER Sky Networks around the world, whilst having SKY branded channels ALSO have FOX Channels.....Italy/Germany or instance.
The UK previously had a Fox branded channel for a while - Fox Kids.
Is there anything this greedy man does not want ? ahhh maybe we can sell the BBC to him then he have complete control and can gives us the news he wants us to here ,not what we want to here. This is a dark day for the free press and independant tv.
The use past tense is correct. He doesn't anymore
What are the FOX branded channels in Germany?
BSkyB deliberately bought a large stake in ITV Plc to scupper any chance of NTL (now Virgin Media) merging with ITV Plc. NTL did announce an interest at the time.
NTL then publicly scrapped the idea because of BSkyB deliberate spoiler. So yes Murdoch is a very greedy and wants to influence everything and use sabotage tactics to scupper other media companies activities.
Might have been the one I was thinking of. It's been a long time since I was over there (2009) so I had forgotten.
Similarly News Corp use the Sky brand in Italy for their wholly owned Sky Italia outfit.
The Sky brand will be around for years to come i'm sure.