BNET Industries
Market Cap:$2.9B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$4.0B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
We are a leading broadband communications and media group in the UK. Our business is divided into two segments: cable and content. The cable segment is further subdivided into a consumer sales division and a business sales division. The consumer sales division provides consumer television, telephony and internet access services to residential customers. Our business sales division focuses on a wide range of voice, data, and managed solutions services for businesses. Our content segment supplies basic television channels and related services to the UK pay-television broadcasting market. Our cable segment includes a broadband, local access broadcasting network covering approximately 4.7 million homes and consists of local distribution networks, our "national network" and an internet protocol, or IP, services platform, which allow us to handle the voice, video and data needs of our customers. Our broadband, local access network and architecture provide us with high-speed interconnection and two-way interactivity with directly connected residential and business customers. We had approximately 1.8 million residential customer relationships as at December 31, 2004, comprised of consumer television, telephony and internet services customers.
Chief Information Officer & Chief Technology OfficerHoward Watson
Contact Information
909 Third Avenue
Suite 2863
New York, New York 10022
00441256753762
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Wired Telecommunications Carriers: 517110
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Virgin Media signs VoD film deal with Universal
Strategy Eye
- 2009-06-28
Virgin Media has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to launch an on-demand film service in the UK called PictureBox. The service will be available for GBP5 (USD8.27) and will allow Virgin's 3.6m subscribers to access a catalogue of 28 films. The 28 film selection will be refreshed each...
Virgin and Universal to offer unlimited music downloads
Strategy Eye
- 2009-06-14
Virgin Media and Universal Music are teaming up to offer a music service that could be the first to let users download an unlimited number of songs without digital rights management DRM restrictions. The service will only be available to Virgin Media broadband subscribers. ...
Kelkoo to revamp Virgin online shopping channel
Strategy Eye
- 2009-06-10
Price-comparison site Kelkoo is teaming up with Virgin Media to revamp Virgin’s online shopping channel. Virgin is hoping that Kelkoo’s links with more than 500 retailers, including eBay and several high street stores, will help increase the number of visitors to the channel. ...
Sky outbids rivals for Virgin channels
Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-28
BSkyB is reportedly outbidding its rivals by 60% with a GBP160m (USD259m) offer forVirgin Media’s TV channels. The figure is GBP60m (USD97m) more than currently on offer from rival bidders such as Channel 4, Time Warner, RTL and NBC Universal, according to the Financial Times FT. ...
Channel 4, Time Warner and Sky may bid for Virgin channels
Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-11
Channel 4, Time Warner and BSkyB are the only firms left in the running to acquire Virgin Media’s three vmTv channels, Virgin 1, Bravo and Living. Virgin is thought to be confident of receiving a good price for the channels. However, City analysts are pegging the likely figure at...
Virgin Media Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
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- 2009-05-05
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of David Gober at Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. David Gober - Morgan Stanley Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Two, if I could -- first, I think last year you guys had...
Virgin Media chooses Gmail
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- 2009-04-15
Virgin Media is adopting Google’s Gmail as its new email service provider, abandoning the email system it has used since the company was split between NTL and Telewest. Its 4m broadband subscribers will be offered 7GB of online storage and an @virginmedia.com address, as well as...
Virgin Media sells content units
Strategy Eye
- 2009-04-06
Virgin Media has officially begun selling its content operations, starting with Virgin Media TV. Virgin Media owns TV channels such as Living and ad sales house IDS. Virgin Media’s 50% stake in UKTV is excluded from the ...
Virgin sells home shopping channels
Strategy Eye
- 2009-04-01
UK cable TV provider Virgin is selling its Sit-up home shopping division to German restructuring firm Aurelius. The deal, worth an estimated GBP500m (USD732m), will see Sit-up’s Bid TV, Price Drop TV and Speed Auction TV channels transferred to Aurelius,...
Virgin Media content chief quits amid sale reports
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-05
Virgin Media's head of content, Malcolm Wall, will leave the company next month, sparking reports that Virgin has opted to sell its entire content division, which includes its 50% stake in UKTV. Following months of speculation about a sale, company...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Howard Watson | Chief Information Officer & Chief Technology Officer |
| Mark Schweitzer | Chief Commercial Officer |
| Edwin M. Banks | Director |
| Jim Chiddix | Director |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Virgin Media Inc. | Chief Information Officer & Chief Technology Officer | Current |
Mark Schweitzer is the Chief Commercial Officer for Virgin Media, having joined the company in October 2007. He is responsible for leading Virgin Media's growth initiatives and oversees the Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Knowledge & Insight teams, alongside commercial strategy, Online presence and planning and performance management for growth of our cable, mobile and National products and services. Prior to joining Virgin Media, Schweitzer was Chief Marketing Officer of Nextel Wireless Communications and Sprint/Nextel until June of 2007 with responsibility for Advertising, Product Marketing, Sponsorships and Revenue Management having spent Schweitzer began his Communications career in the early 1980s with Time Warner Cable, and has served in various roles in Marketing, Sales, Product and Customer Operations for MCI Communications, McCaw Cellular, and in the Marketing Consulting business, including two years in the mid-90s in the UK for BT Telecommunications. He and his wife Ann, reside in South London.
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