Nigel Parsons Quotations

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.

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

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.

One of the aims will be to try and bring better understanding of each other's positions. We'll aim for balance ... It's not going to be anti-Western or anti-American.

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

understands the importance, as well as the consequences, of providing news from all sides of the issue, a core value of the channel.

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

We will share resources, production facilities and story lists.

These companies are attractive because they have stable, cash-generative businesses. Interest rates are low and private equity has lots of money. They can leverage debt against these cash flows.

The brief is emphatically not an English translation of the Arabic channel, ... It will have international appeal and fill a lot of gaps in existing output.

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.

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.

It's a volatile high-roller casino which does not sit easily in such a small quoted company. We believe that it has more value as a 'trophy asset,' or to a group with genuine high-roller international reach.

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

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.