{"id":2281,"date":"2008-05-30T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/05\/virgin_radio_so\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T22:49:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:49:33","slug":"virgin_radio_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/virgin_radio_so\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Radio Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So finally, after months, and years even of sale process, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginradio.co.uk\/\">Virgin Radio<\/a>, my employer, is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotoday.co.uk\/news.php?extend.3454.2\">sold<\/a>. The purchaser is TIML Golden Square Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Times of India Media Group. One era ends, and another begins!<br \/>\nMore from The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/telecoms\/article4036887.ece\">here<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/7429193.stm\">the BBC<\/a> (<strike>carefully saying that the sale is &#8220;reported&#8221;<\/strike> The BBC updated their report, satisfied that a sale has been agreed!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&#038;grid=&#038;xml=\/money\/2008\/05\/31\/cnvirgin131.xml\">the Telegraph<\/a>, and perhaps most fully, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d50240b0-2e93-11dd-ab55-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1\">the FT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So finally, after months, and years even of sale process, Virgin Radio, my employer, is being sold. The purchaser is TIML Golden Square Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Times of India Media Group. One era ends, and another begins! More from The Times here. Also, the BBC (carefully saying that the sale is &#8220;reported&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}