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Article: Media fight not for faint hearted Richard Branson has gone into battle with Rupert Murdoch in an effort to get a slice of Britain's fast-growing TV and telecoms industry. Andrew Hebden met the Aberdeen University graduate playing a key role in Virgin Media's out-and-out assault on Sky
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- Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2007
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Richard Branson has gone into battle with Rupert Murdoch in an
effort to get a slice of Britain's fast-growing TV and telecoms
industry. Andrew Hebden met the Aberdeen University graduate playing
a key role in Virgin Media's out-and-out assault on Sky
As I WAIT in the "chill-out area" at Virgin Media HQ for James
Kydd to complete another interview on a particularly busy day, the TV
screen opposite beams live pictures from across the road in Covent
Garden where Richard Branson is playing video games with Jermaine
Jackson in a giant glass cubicle.
It's an odd spectacle, but seems to be drawing some interest from
puzzled Londoners and tourists as they meander through this historic
and cultural ...