Playboy Takeover?

If Expanded do take over, are there any rumours about whether thsy would maintain the Briatol studio or move everything to London?

Agree with the comment made earlier about why update the web site now when its been stale for ages.

I wonder what Xpanded would do with the daytime service. Would they keep the "accommodating" services that RLC provide? Would it even prompt a more creative dayshow something that has been sadly lacking since around 2009/10. Or, to my fear, could spell the death of any originality left in the dayshow art.

Furthermore, I wonder with the purchase of the EPG slots, will they maintain low prices, no frills service or actually boost prices on a par with BS/S66 and improve the quality of their service. This potential takeover poses interesting questions.

Xpanded will be using their own London studios. They wont be any more shows from Bristol.

Ant news in the xpanded daytime service ?

Both channels have plenty of great babes.

Pessimism tells me I can look forward to a show combining the worst of both worlds

I still keep wondering how Xpanded have got the money to take over RLC. The last I heard they were supposed to be in the red to the tune of £120k.

must have a mystery investor that we don't know about

being in the red to the tune of 120K is nothing to be proud of...something's not right how can they take over RLC when they have a debt that large? Unless they got a refund on the licences they handed back...

I've just had a look over the posts where the Xpanded was discussed and I got the figures a bit wrong. here is the actual bit from a mr mystery post.

The company behind Xpanded has a bad credit rating with lenders being advised not to borrow them anything (or words to that effect).
Xpanded only has £120,882 in the bank.
They have a minus net worth of - £590,610
They have liability's of £1,253,787

In contrast the company behind RLC has a good credit rating .
RLC has £427,344 in the bank
They have a net worth of £1,765,466
They have liabilities of £438,256

It still shows they are in a bad financial situation. So unless they do have a mystery backer as babelover said, then they can't really afford to take over RLC.

Yes, they seem to have huge debts, but the £120k that was being talked about was money they have in the bank.

so someone's lent them the money without checking their liabilities first..that could be money they can't get back...