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Article: Fears for football as ITV Digital goes bust
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- March 28, 2002
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THE government's strategy for the future of digital television was
in ruins last night after ITV Digital was put into the hands of the
administrators.
The company's demise threatens to plunge the lower divisions of
English football into financial meltdown with up to 30 clubs facing
ruin because of the withdrawal of broadcast revenue.
It will also severely undermine plans to make Britain the world's
first fully-digital television nation by 2010 and leave Rupert
Murdoch's Sky network with a stronger grip on the pay-to-view
broadcasting market.
The owners of ITV Digital, Granada and Carlton, said they will
keep the service on air while they consider their next move.
"Our objective here is ...