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Telewest and Flextech have agreed plans for a £9.6bn merger, enabling the combined group to develop a new range of TV and cable services. 18-Dec-1999 Flextech is selling a 38% stake in TV Travel Shop to Barclays Private Equity in a £20m deal, and the proceeds will be used to move into the German holiday market. 07-Dec-1999 Telewest is in merger discussions with Flextech, which would enable Telewest to add new content to its interactive cable TV business. 07-Dec-1999 Flextech is acquiring a 77% stake in ticketing agency Way Ahead for £7.2m. 24-Nov-1999 Flextech has reached agreement to transmit all its channels over Telewest's new digital TV service. 18-Nov-1999 Flextech is to launch five new home shopping channels on the Open interactive TV service, selling videos, concert tickets, music, travel and BBC merchandise. 29-Oct-1999 Flextech is in discussions to supply up to five branded TV channels to the Open home-shopping group. 27-Aug-1999 Flextech is planning to invest £20m in interactive TV services this year, and it also aims to acquire new TV channels to add to the existing 14. 25-Mar-1999 Flextech is to run a six-month trial of Microsoft's WebTV interactive advertising system on its TV Travel Shop channel. 16-Feb-1999 Flextech has rejected an approach from CanWest Global Communications of Canada for its 20% stake in Scottish Media. 11-Dec-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications, the cable TV company, has agreed a deal that will enable it to offer four Flextech channels and five channels from UKTV. 03-Oct-1998 Pearson has sold its remaining minority stake in the Flextech television company, raising £27.6m. 25-Aug-1998 BSkyB is in discussions to offer Flextech's Living and UK Arena channels exclusively on its digital TV service. 12-Aug-1998 Flextech is in discussions to join the News International consortium that is bidding for a 63% stake in Talk Radio, which would represent its first move into radio. 16-Jul-1998 Telewest Communications is negotiating a new deal with Flextech in which it will take a 50% share of revenues from a new package of Flextech TV channels, and will no longer be required to supply the channels to a minimum percentage of its cable subscribers. 25-Mar-1998 Flextech is linking up with the BBC to develop a UKFM pop music TV channel. 25-Mar-1998 Flextech is discussing the creation of a UK interactive TV alliance with Microsoft, which would enable it to compete with BSkyB. 06-Feb-1998 Flextech is to take a 87% stake in Marchbrand, a new company being set up to provide a television-based travel service. 27-Nov-1997 Telewest Communications is in discussions with Flextech over the creation of a basic package of BBC television programmes that would rival BSkyB's package. 31-Oct-1997 The BBC and Flextech have announced two joint ventures, one of which will run 8 new TV channels and the other will acquire UK Gold. 18-Mar-1997 The BBC and Flextech are expected to soon announce details of their joint venture to launch up to eight new TV channels, a deal which is likely to give Flextech access to BBC programmes for the next 30 years. 12-Mar-1997 The BBC is discussing the possible launch of eight new television channels via cable operators, as part of its joint venture with Flextech. 17-Dec-1996 The BBC is in discussions with Flextech and Discovery Communications, companies controlled by Telecommunications Inc of Denver, to set up a number of cable and satellite channels. 28-Sep-1996 The BBC is discussing a possible joint venture with Flextech to set up six cable and satellite TV channels, a move which could give the BBC access to the US market via Flextech's parent company Tele-Communications. 13-Aug-1996 Flextech is discussing the acquisition of minority stakes in the UK Gold and UK Living cable and satellite channels from Pearson. 22-Jul-1996 Flextech says that plans to sell a stake in the TCC channel to News Corp have collapsed. 20-Jun-1996 Flextech has acquired a 32% stake in a joint venture to launch a digital satellite channel in Latin America called Mundo Ole. 24-Apr-1996 Flextech is in discussions to buy controlling stakes in UK Gold and UK Living, the satellite channels. 21-Mar-1996 Fox is likely to buy a 49% stake in Starstream, Flextech's children's channel. 30-Nov-1995 KPN of Holland is moving into the UK cable TV market with the acquisition of Flextech's franchises in Oxford, Stafford, Salisbury, Andover and Jersey. 18-Oct-1995 Flextech is in discussions over the sale of its cable TV business. 29-Sep-1995 Flextech is considering the sale of its cable franchises for £60m, with possible buyers being KPN and Telewest. 11-Sep-1995 Flextech is acquiring a 20% share of Scottish Television for £28m. 01-Sep-1995
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