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Tue 04 Apr 2009Boxer pulls out of digital TV service
BOXER DTT, the consortium that is 50 per cent owned by Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp group, has abandoned its plans to provide digital terrestrial television (DTT) under the contracts it was awarded by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) last July.
Its decision to pull out means that a consortium comprising TV3, Eircom and Setanta Sports will be offered the licences for the three commercial DTT multiplexes. The BCI said it has asked the One Vision consortium, the second placed applicant in the licensing competition, if it is still interested in the licences and still in a financial position to offer DTT services in time for the switch-off of analogue services in 2012.
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