Business On Television

The promise of outlandish profits from business-to-consumer e-tailing is fading to a dot on the Internet horizon and the real…

The promise of outlandish profits from business-to-consumer e-tailing is fading to a dot on the Internet horizon and the real promise of e-commerce is now thought to lie elsewhere. The Money Programme - B2B Or Not B2B (Sunday 6.15 p.m., BBC2) says the next phase will have profound implications for the world economy. The golden catch phrase now is B2B (business to business).

Mind Your Own Business (Sunday, 10.50 p.m., RTE1) is a new four-part series examining partnership in the workplace. The programme was commissioned by SIPTU, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Irish Business and Employers' Confederation and RTE and the theme is that enterprise partnership within business can bring success. Time will tell.

Football will score a £2 billion (€2.5 billion) bonanza from the impending auction of the game's television rights. Panorama - The Two Billion Pound Ball Game (Monday, 10 p.m., BBC1) reports how the competing television companies are promising better coverage than ever. However, critics argue that too much of the money is going to too few of the teams and the programme asks who will be the real winners from the rights' auction?

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