Boxer TV Ireland
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| Private company limited by shares | |
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters |
Dublin, Ireland Boxer DTT Limited Boxer TV-Access AB Dublin, Ireland Communicorp Dublin, Ireland BT Ireland Copenhagen, Denmark Boxer TV Danmark |
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Key people
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Per Norman – CEO of the Board of Boxer AB Crister Fritzson – President of the Board of Boxer AB Lucy Gaffney – Chairperson of Communicorp Group Ltd Patrick Halpenny -chief executive of Communicorp Group Ltd |
| Products | Unlikely to commence trading, had planned to offer a digital terrestrial television service |
| Revenue | None |
| Website | www.boxer.ie |
Boxer DTT Limited (which intended to trade as Boxer) was a company that had been awarded the contract to operate a mainly pay-TV digital terrestrial television service in Republic of Ireland.
Boxer was a joint venture between Boxer TV Access AB, now owned ultimately by the Government of Sweden via Teracom (3I recently sold their stake to Teracom in Boxer AB), and Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group Limited specifically established, with the support of BT Ireland, to promote, support and drive take-up of DTT in Ireland. They had been awarded in principle three multiplex contracts, for multiplexes (A, B,C). (As with all BCI licences, the operating company only holds contracts, the actual broadcasting licences being issued by the Commission for Communications Regulation to the BCI). Raidió Teilifís Éireann will hold one further multiplex licence intended mainly for free-to-air services.
However, on 20 April 2009 the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland confirmed that Boxer had withdrawn its application to operate the digital terrestrial television multplexes in Ireland. In the absence of a contract, the company is extremely unlikely to ever commence trading.
Boxer received in principle the conditional contract for Muxes 2–4 (A-C). They beat off strong competition from two other consortia to win the 12-year contract. These two were Easy TV made up of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises & Liberty Global Incorporated (parent of UPC Ireland) and OneVision which is made up of Setanta Sports, TV3 Ireland, Arqiva and Eircom. On 20 April 2009, the BCI revealed that OneVision had been the second placed applicant and that following Boxer's withdrawal, it intended to ascertain whether it was still interested in operating the DTT multiplexes.
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