[Swprograms] Babcock International buys VT Group

[Richard Cuff <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

VT group is the owner of Merlin Communications, the privatized arm of the BBC World Service transmitter operation.  The BBC still owns the transmitters, but Merlin-VT-Babcock operates them.

The reason I bothered to post this is that it shows how the activity of creating and branding programming is increasingly being separated from the actual transmission of that programming.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

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From: AIB London <aib_london@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:32 AM
Subject: AIB media industry briefing

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VT acquired by Babcock
VT Group, whose communications services provide transmission for a number of the world's leading broadcasters, has been acquired by Babcock International Group PLC making the enlarged company "the leading engineering support services company in the UK". Babcock-owned and -operated global broadcast infrastructure transmits over 1,000 hours of short-wave and medium-wave broadcasts every day, linking broadcasters to their audiences worldwide.
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