Vodafone is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from cable giant John Malone’s Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, according to sources.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Netherlands-based Ziggo Sport — owned by John Malone’s Liberty Global and Vodafone — said they had been targeted in a European Commission investigation into a possible cartel in sports broadcasting rights.

David McRedmond, who was the commercial director at Eir almost 15 years ago when the telecoms firm was called Eircom, is to return to the company as its non-executive chairman.

Trinity City Hotel, one of the Dublin hotels owned by US billionaire John Malone, the Virgin Media and TV3 owner, boosted pre-tax profits 54% to €2.83m last year, writes Gordon Deegan. 

Virgin Media, the internet and TV provider, has claimed too much “red-tape” is holding up the roll out of rural broadband.

US cable channel Discovery has agreed to buy Scripps Networks, the No 4 most watched US cable network, for $11.9 (€10bn) in a bet that uniting ownership of cable channels like Animal Planet and HGTV will help the company adapt to the changing television landscape.

Plenty of companies have been eager to associate themselves with Formula One, the world’s most popular racing series.

When Carolyn McCall left the media world for the airline industry seven years ago, newspaper publishers were under siege from a shift online that sucked away advertising revenue. Now she’s coming back to run ITV, just as the battleground has moved to television.

Liberty Global lowered its growth target for Europe this year as billionaire John Malone’s cable carrier reported a weaker-than-expected start in the UK.

ITV chief executive Adam Crozier is stepping down after seven years, as the UK broadcaster shakes up its executive ranks amid a Brexit-derived advertising slowdown.

US billionaire John Malone has secured planning permission for a major extension to his Hilton hotel at Charlemont Place at Grand Canal in Dublin after An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension.

Exclusive rights to broadcasting the 2015 Rugby World Cup last year failed to turn around the fortunes of TV3 as pre-tax losses more than doubled to €16.95 million.

John Malone has applied for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton Hotel on Grand Canal.

US billionaire John Malone last year booked a €9.34m gain on the value of his new five-star InterContinental hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin.

Vodafone Group could benefit from a merger with Liberty Global, according to a report in Barron’s, which added the British telecommunications company’s shares could also be poised for a 33% rise.

A question has been raised over plans by US billionaire John Malone to add a new seven-storey 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton hotel in Dublin.

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US billionaire John Malone’s Virgin Media — which owns TV3 and the cable operator — has confirmed plans to acquire UTV Ireland from ITV, in a €10m deal which will raise fears for jobs at both broadcasters.

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US billionaire John Malone’s Virgin Media — which owns TV3 and the UPC cable operator — is reportedly poised to buy out rival broadcaster UTV Ireland, sparking fears for jobs at the fledgeling broadcaster.

The management firm that operated one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country, Kylemore Abbey, posted retained profits of €1.6m last year.

Cable & Wireless yesterday said a deal with billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global would help both companies add scale in a high-growth, low-penetration region for smartphones and broadband connections.

After spending the past decade consolidating the European cable industry, US billionaire John Malone is to do the same in Latin America.

With a $120bn merger with Liberty Global off the table, Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao needs his strategy of higher network investments and acquisitions of European cable companies to start paying off, quickly.

Talks between Vodafone and Liberty Global about exchanging assets to better compete in Europe’s converging mobile, broadband, and TV markets collapsed yesterday because they could not agree on the value of their businesses.

The former owners of the five-star Intercontinental Hotel in Dublin last year paid €2m in order to terminate its operating agreement with Four Seasons.

The owner of UPC in Ireland, Liberty Global, has reported a decline in second-quarter revenue as its Dutch unit Ziggo lost customers, highlighting the difficulties for billionaire John Malone’s European cable company in its hunt for growth.

European cable operator Liberty Global said yesterday it had raised its stake in ITV to 9.9% through a hedging deal — but still had no intention of taking over Britain’s biggest free-to-air commercial TV firm.

AFTER a market revival in 2012 and 2013, 60 Irish hotels sold in 2014 for a total of €440m, double that of the prior year.

Global communications giant Liberty Global, owner of television cable company UPC Ireland, has struck a deal to buy broadcaster TV3 for €87m, a development that will stiffen competition for RTÉ and the troubled fledgling station UTV Ireland.

TV3 may be be valued at well over €100m if US cable giant Liberty Global decides to follow through and acquire the Irish television channel, according to senior sources.

Vodafone said yesterday it was in talks with Europe’s largest cable operator Liberty Global about an exchange of assets but was not discussing a full-blown merger.

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Charter Communications, controlled by cable industry pioneer John Malone, has offered to buy Time Warner Cable for $56bn (€52bn), seeking to combine the number two and three US cable operators to compete against market leader Comcast.

Vodafone Group is weighing an initial public offering for its Indian business, the wireless carrier’s biggest unit by customers, said a person familiar with the matter.

Former West Cork residence of Anthony O’Reilly overlooking Glandore is on the money, says Tommy Barker.