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To: J Fieb who wrote (50322)	11/19/2000 5:13:05 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Free d-boxes(C-Cube) in Germany......................... cabletoday.com Premiere World to Give Away its Set-Tops November 16, 2000 German pay-TV outfit Premiere World, owned by Kirch Group, is planning to give away its d-box set-top box, free of charge, in an effort to turn around the Germany digital TV market. BSkyB, whose owners News Corp also own a 22 per cent stake in Kirch Group, used set-top box give-aways to great effect in order to convert its subscribers to digital, increase its market penetration, and hasten the early switch-off of its analogue service. Some observers have suggested that News Corp may be exerting its influence on Kirch to use BSkyB as a business model to repeat the successes News Corp has had with the UK satellite broadcaster and crack the tough German digital TV market.