Telewest Global
(Subsidiary of Virgin Media)
As of March 3, 2006, Telewest Global Inc. was acquired by Virgin Media, Inc. Telewest Global, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a broadband communications and media group in the United Kingdom. The company operates in three segments: Cable, Content, and Sit-Up. The Cable segment provides consumer television, telephony, and Internet access services to residential customers; and focuses on voice, data, and managed solutions services for businesses. Its consumer television services provide a range of programming over digital and analog television platforms, including news and information, general interest, business, children's, international, music, and sports programming. As of December31, 2004, the company had approximately 1.3 million consumer television subscribers. As of December 31, 2004, the company had approximately 493,000 customers subscribing to television, telephony, and broadband Internet services; approximately 1.1 million digital television subscribers. The company’s digital television services include an array of television and radio channels, pay-per-view films, and interactive services. As of December 31, 2004, it had approximately 1.1 million digital television subscribers. As of December 31, 2004, the company had approximately 839,000 consumer Internet subscribers. The Content segment supplies television channels and related services to the United Kingdom pay-television broadcasting market. The Sit-Up segment markets and retails various consumer products, primarily by means of televised shopping programs using an auction-based format
