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I think that is their speculation but it is really odd how they're kept at arms length, but don't seem to be something they want to either integrate more or sell off. Presumably they're at least paying for themselves or even profitable otherwise they'd have long been got rid of. You'd imagine they'd try and sell them first rather than just shut them, but I guess they view that as a short sighted option which may bring in a little bit of revenue in the short term but removes income in the long term.

I don't expect there's much of a demand on the market for such an operation any longer. Possibly the 'Box' brand has some value but that's it really.

The last such change of hands was from CSC to Trace, and the omens from that are not good (even adjusting for the hubris enthused deletion of most of the stuff that made the CSC channels relatively popular).