Nigel Parsons Quotations

It's a big number. But I suppose that's what William Hill takes in four days during the Cheltenham festival. And football betting, especially from Asia, is growing.

We will share resources, production facilities and story lists.

A lot of people are dissatisfied with the so-called mainstream media, and they'll sample us? When you're abroad, you buy and read The International Herald Tribune. Here, you read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times. You're a regular reader of The New Republic. Probably the same itch that makes you exercise your brain on dense, serious news organs will make you watch us.

If there are no problems we could be on air by the World Cup.

Sir David is a fantastic catch for us, because of what he can bring us in terms of interviews, his contacts book and his knowledge of Europe and America.

Some are a bit leery. There is an image problem to be overcome.

William Hill is clearly being pulled up by today's FT story about Ladbrokes.

By and large, people have been approaching us. We have well over 4,000 applications for editorial jobs from people who've worked at CNN, BBC, Fox, Sky News and Australian television.

There is a lot of business and balance sheet restructuring to be done that would benefit from being away from the public eye but, once complete, the price is a compact, good quality, highly cash generative company.

The reason to hold this stock is the high asset value of the group in a hot property market.