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Daniel Thomas

@danielthomasldn

Global media editor at the Financial Times; former chief UK business, telcos, property etc.

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Scoop w/ deals maestro James Fontanella-Khan: Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird is drawing up plans to take control of the UK’s Telegraph newspaper in an attempt to bring an end to the protracted two-year saga ft.com/content/be4ad3…… via @ft

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Scoop: UK insurance tycoon Sir Clive Cowdery takes stake in Observer newspaper, the latest left-leaning millionaire to join as James Harding prepares for his first edition this weekend ft.com/content/a167b6… via @ft

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And with new Monday M&A meat ... FT can reveal that Banijay has held talks with CVC, the private equity group, about financing any potential deal, w/ Ivan Levingston

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I went to two gigs last week and booked more this summer while finishing my big read on Live Nation and this really stuck home - as a fan, the Ticketmaster owner is now practically unavoidable ft.com/content/fdf2ba… via @ft

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Ministers preparing plans for a new statutory instrument this week dictating how much a foreign state can own of a British newspaper, likely to be set at 15%. This is the 'Telegraph rule' in consultation since Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI was blocked in its takeover last year.

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Revealed: Irish developer Paddy McKillen and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, the billionaire former PM of Qatar known as HBJ, are locked in arbitration to end their multi year billion-pound legal battle over Claridge’s ft.com/content/ef99f1… @ft

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BT’s multiple billion pound bet on sports set to end after more than a decade as it nears deals to sell to Warner Bros, which wants it as the cornerstone of its new HBO Max streamer. Scoop with telecoms maestro Kieran Smith ft.com/content/014fb3… via @ft

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A second Saturday scoop: Dovid Efune launches fresh Telegraph bid with Brexiter businessman Jeremy Hosking ft.com/content/65f443… via @ft

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Redbird, the US fund manager, set to announce a deal to enter exclusive talks with a fully funded bid for the Telegraph newspaper as early as today, bringing the two year saga to an end

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NEW: TalkTalk has been late making millions of pounds of payments to its suppliers, including Openreach and CityFibre, as the company battles cash flow issues. This comes just months after sharesholders injected £235mn into the company. W/Euan Healy on.ft.com/4jtor4z

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The CEO of Liberty Global has claimed the business secretary is “anxious” for large telecoms companies to buy the UK’s struggling “altnet” broadband providers over fears many could collapse and leave customers without internet… More here: on.ft.com/4jLfeVu

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Super interesting move by Netflix - new in the FT - in a landmark deal with France’s TF1 to show traditional linear TV ft.com/content/4dc9ac… via @ft. In UK terms, it would be like putting all of BBC1, 2, 3 and 4 and the entirety of iPlayer on Netflix

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BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping as the UK national broadcaster takes its first steps to defending its IP against US big tech ft.com/content/b743d4… scoop w/ Cristina Criddle via @ft