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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8826

13 November 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Go-ahead for video-on-demand JV between Walt Disney and Columbia Pictures in the UK and Ireland

Brussels, 12/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has cleared a joint venture, called MovieCo, which will offer a video-on-demand service in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The JV, created by US film studios Columbia Pictures and The Walt Disney Company together with UK company ON Demand Group, will create competition to the current dominant provider of Pay-tv content to the benefit of cable customers in the two countries. The proposed concentration consists in the creation of a...

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