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Brother John
5th October 2007, 06:34
North One television took over the company internationally Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), the right owner of the WRC.
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/n/d/2007/10/04/north-one-tv-kauft-isc/index.html
If you understand no German language......To translate with http://babelfish.altavista.com/ :p : :s mokin:
L5->R5/CR
5th October 2007, 06:44
Crash sent it out on RSS earlier in english:

http://www.crash.net/news_view.asp?cid=4&id=155349
GigiGalliNo1
5th October 2007, 07:15
North One do the Australian Rally Champs coverage over here. They were the ones who created all of WRC graphics on the TV shows etc, and now the ARC show is a copy-cat of WRC but crap lol
wrc_flipper
5th October 2007, 08:52
Not exacally new news -c haps - was announced in July / August this year when they moved in together at the NorthOne London offices.
Daniel
5th October 2007, 09:31
Wonder what this means for the WRC? :mark: Does anyone know what this means for the WRC? :confused:
wrc_flipper
5th October 2007, 09:43
ISC owed NorthOne TV a shed load of money and ISC looked to be going broke during the summer with not paying suppliers, not just NorthOne.
To save ISC and alll the things that it does in WRC NorthOne bailed them out.
(all this from Motorsport news over the period)

NorthOne are a very good Media production company, not sure how this will fit in with ISC activities (sponcership, timings, accreditation etc.), but wrc.com seems to have a few more advertisers over the last few days.
Having a stable company in charge will allow the managment team to focus on the wrc and not worring about going bust.
bt52b
5th October 2007, 14:57
Doesn't DR still own the WRC rights?
jonkka
5th October 2007, 15:42
DR never owned those, ISC always did.

DR just owned majority of the ISC, as he did of Prodrive before selling chunk of it off to finance his overtake of ISC of which he partly parted with to finance the Aston Martin deal. Simple? :)
Buzz Lightyear
5th October 2007, 16:06
DR never owned those, ISC always did.

DR just owned majority of the ISC, as he did of Prodrive before selling chunk of it off to finance his overtake of ISC of which he partly parted with to finance the Aston Martin deal. Simple? :)

I think DR brokered the deal with John Sinders, a American leading financer. Sinders got 2 backers from Kuwait. I doubt DR put loads money in, but is the front man to avoid the usual outcry of crown jewels being sold to foreign investors.