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Marc Watson, CCO of DAZN: “DAZN is probably the biggest investor in and streamer for women's sport in the world. We also have the biggest YouTube channel devoted to women’s football. This is bringing a really valuable audience in.” #MediaTelco2023

Great to hear from Patricia Cobian how engrained #netzero is in everything that Virgin Media O2 News does, from financing to strategy Enders Analysis #MediaTelco2023

Patricia Cobian, CFO of VMO2 Virgin Media O2 News: “Sustainability is a critical topic across all stakeholders. ESG is at the centre of our strategy with our Better Connections Plan with really bold targets, including achieving net zero across scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2040.” #MediaTelco2023

Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC: “The PSBs demonstrate sustained creative excellence. We are defying the financial odds and many sceptics. There is a deep audience need to have their story told by organisations that to their core are here to serve them.” #MediaTelco2023

Robert Finnegan, CEO of Three UK and Three Ireland: “The UK mobile market is not a functional market, its a dysfunctional market and something has to change. There isn’t competition in the market from a quality point of view and that needs to change.” #MediaTelco2023

Marc Allera, CEO of BT Consumer: “Too much of the debate has focused on price and cost and not on quality. It's an incredibly crowded market. We haven't yet solved the millions of people who haven't got 5G or fibre to the home. The answer to that is scale.”#MediaTelco2023

Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive of Ofcom: “We are very much in the vanguard—there is no other regulator with the capacity we have for online safety. But we have to build a global network of regulators.” #MediaTelco2023

Potential. Opportunity. Freedom. Speaking at the #MediaTelco2023 conference, Culture Secretary @lucyfrazermp set out her ambitions and priorities for the Creative Industries in the coming months Read the full speech at: gov.uk/government/spe…

A backstory on the Barclays after a week in which they lost control of the Daily Telegraph - and my debut for the Sunday Times thetimes.co.uk/article/d8290e…

Vodafone and Three make a compelling case for their proposed merger, addressing pricing, competition, investment and security concerns. The CMA's GUPPI approach however will have a narrower focus and often throws out some curious conclusions. Read here: bit.ly/3JdPBNK

To my mind the most under-rated Sinead O’Connor song - about a little boy with Down’s Syndrome. Really showcases her tender and moving voice. If you aren’t deeply touched, you’re cold as ice m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpOprr…

Another huge and growing majority for #Rejoin. Now up to 62-38. Every poll. Every pollster. The public have had enough of Brexit. RT so that everyone knows.

Brexit: a relentless and reluctant admission of failure… having to take steps to “get us closer to what we had - without admitting we have lost anything.” What a tragic state for a country to be in. Duped and now in denial about what it’s thrown away. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Mark Carney, "When Brexiters tried to create Singapore-on-the-Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina-on-the-Channel." Calm, measured, enlightening. This speech by Mark Carney at the Global Progress Action Summit is a must watch #GlobalProgressAction23 👏

As the sale of the parent companies of The Telegraph and Spectator Groups approaches, competition and public interest grounds represent a hurdle for potential buyers, with the bar set higher for trade buyers. Read our report here: shorturl.at/dfjHZ

Director of TV Gill Hind spoke to The Times and The Sunday Times about the savings the BBC must make due to the licence fee being frozen for two years from 2022, after a decade of cuts to its annual budget in real terms. Read here: bit.ly/3PYJXCR

Head of Mobile Karen Egan gave evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Business and Trade on the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three. Watch the full video here: bit.ly/3S2YNJP

My column on “Rishi Sunak X Elon Musk”, as this week’s event was actually branded theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

NEW: The Papua New Guinea Courier's UK correspondent reflects on the significance of Poppy Day.