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Grupo de Carlyle nas conversas com excesso $19.6 bilhões possíveis dos meios de Virgin oferecidos
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A empresa confidencial da equidade do grupo de Carlyle está nas discussões com meios de Virgin Inc. sobre um potencial ofereça para a companhia britânica da tevê de cabo, os tempos de New York relatados. As conversas são preliminares e não podem conduzir a uma oferta, os tempos ditos em seu Web site, citing um familiar da pessoa com as negociações. The person was not authorized to speak about the negotiations and requested anonymity, the Times said in its report Sunday.
The offer for Virgin Media, whose largest investor is Richard Branson, would be worth about $19.6 billion (€14.5 billion) including debt, the person said, placing it among the largest ever in Britain.
A spokeswoman for Virgin Media declined to comment. A message was left Sunday evening seeking comment from The Carlyle Group.
Virgin Media, formed by a merger this year between Branson’s Virgin Mobile and cable operator NTL Inc., reported its seventh consecutive quarterly loss in May after subscribers defected to rival BSkyB.
Virgin Media lost customers earlier this year after it stopped airing basic BSkyB channels, dropping popular programs such as “Lost,” “24,” and “The Simpsons,” as the result of a battle over fees during negotiations to renew a distribution agreement.
BSkyB has long dominated pay TV in Britain, accounting for around 70 percent of the country’s pay-TV subscribers. But the arrival of Virgin Media has threatened a shake-up of the status quo, and relations between the two have become increasingly rancorous in recent months.
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