It was removed from NTL's digital channel line-up in September 2002, and Carlton was negotiating with BSkyB to get the channel onto Sky, but no deal was agreed.
It was widely known that the main purpose (whether stated or not) was used to decrypt free channels from the main UK cable providers of that time (namely Telewest / NTL and ex Cable & Wireless).
However, Telewest left in 2006 after a merger with NTL.
During this stint on the late show they were awarded the NTL Commercial Radio Award for Best Newcomers and listed as one of Campaign Magazine's Top 10 radio programmes in the UK.
Returning to the UK, he became Chief Executive and Chairman of Huddersfield Town F.C. for three years, before spending three years at sports TV firm Premium TV, an NTL subsidiary.
S4C (who were already guaranteed their 'gifted' space on the multiplex), United News and Media and NTL set up S4C Digital Networks (each owned one-third of the company) and bid for the right to operate Multiplex A. In the event, they were the only bidder and, after having their business plan approved, were awarded the licence to operate Multiplex A by the Independent Television Commission in 1997.
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Other non-premium channels that were broadcast included BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Red Button, QVC (and prior to that, Shop!), TV Travel Shop, Simply Money (now Simply Shopping), the ITN News Channel and an NTL EPG.
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In March 2000 American cable television provider NTL approached the club with a view to purchasing a 9.9% stake in the club.
NTL also own the remaining MMDS licences (for cells covering counties Dublin, Galway, Mayo, and Waterford).
It was the NTL Commercial Radio Station of the Year in 2003 (under 300,000 TSA).
Kurt Lewin founded the National Training Laboratories, known as NTL, an American non-profit behavioral psychology center, in 1947.
In the UK, the merging of NTL and Virgin Mobile resulted in Virgin Media offering a "quadruple play" of cable television, broadband internet and home and mobile telephone.
On 21 November 2006, after the merger with NTL, The Register reported that Subscriber Traffic Management was being trialled in areas in the north of England and was rolling out nationwide.
His freely available (under the terms of the GNU GPL) C++ library of number theory algorithms, NTL, is widely used and well regarded for its high performance.