RTL Group announces strategic relationship between Five and Top UP TV
"Five is confident that this relationship will present a number of opportunities to launch new free-to-air services during the course of 2006. "
The words of an RTL press release announcing that Five will take a "stategic investment" in Top Up TV.
Quite how the move will allow Five to launch new free-to-air services, and how that interacts with buying a stake in a pay-TV operator, is left to the reader to idlely speculate.
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