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Financial Times  10 hrs ago  Comment 
Takeover talk swirled round Swatch Group, helping the Swiss watchmaker’s shares jump as it also reported stronger sales in the first few weeks of the year
MarketWatch  Feb 9  Comment 
British Sky Broadcasting Group said Tuesday that it has placed a 10.4% stake in commercial television broadcasting firm ITV . Sky said that the placing of 404,362,095 ITV shares at 48.50p per share results in a consideration of around 196 million...
Financial Times  Feb 8  Comment 
BSkyB gave up its legal fight on Monday to keep its full 17.9 per cent stake in rival broadcaster ITV
Forbes  Jan 28  Comment 
Murdoch's BSkyB brings 3-D television to a mass market. Can they make it pay?
PR Newswire  Jan 28  Comment 
LONDON, January 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a video interview on http://www.cantos.com, BSkyB CEO Jeremy Darroch and CFO Andrew Griffith discuss how strong demand for HD television has helped to add more customers and deliver a strong financial
BusinessWeek  Jan 28  Comment 
British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, the U.K.’s biggest pay-television provider, had a 3.4 percent increase in first-half operating profit on a record gain in high-definition TV clients and fewer customer cancellations.
BusinessWeek  Jan 28  Comment 
British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, the U.K.’s biggest pay-television provider, will launch a 3D channel in April. BSkyB will preview the service on Jan. 31 by broadcasting the Arsenal versus Manchester United soccer game to selected public...
MarketWatch  Jan 28  Comment 
British Sky Broadcasting said Thursday that its first-half net profit rose to 256 million pounds ($415.1 million), from 166 million pounds a year ago. Sales rose to 2.87 billion pounds, from 2.6 billion pounds last year, as strong growth in...
Marketwire  Jan 28  Comment 
MIDDLESEX, UK -- (Marketwire) -- 01/28/10 -- BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLC Results for the half year ended 31 December 2009 GOOD SECOND QUARTER COMPLETES A STRONG FIRST HALF Strong demand across the board in the second quarter * Good progress on
Sydney Morning Herald  Jan 21  Comment 
The Court of Appeal ruled that British Sky Broadcasting PLC must comply with the government's order that it sell over half of its stake in broadcaster ITV PLC.



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British Sky Broadcasting Group, better known as BSkyB, plays an important role in the British TV and radio landscape. BSkyB has an expanding niche market - satellite broadcasting of TV programs through paying channels. It is one of the main suppliers of this market. BSkyB brings entertainment, information and sport through mass program distribution. The Group particularly focuses on interactivity, allowing viewers to access a wide range of recent and original programs, for example new films on Sky One and Sky Movies. For sport, BSkyB has bought the broadcasting rights to football and rugby matches in Scotland and England, the two sports that bring in the largest number of viewers. The Sky Sport division also broadcasts golf tournaments, basketball, tennis, ice hockey and boxing and athletics. The Group estimates that its channels are watched in million homes in the UK and Ireland. 8 million people subscribe to its digital service. With the acquisition at the end of 2005 of the company Easynet, Internet access provider and fibre optic network operator, BskyB is now in a position to diversify its services by offering VoIP telephony, video on demand, and of course Internet based TV channels. In November 2006, BSY purchased 17.9% of ITV, one of the UK's largest commercial broadcasters.

The company is 39-percent owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. In the financial year 2007, revenues breakdown is as follows: retail subscription 74.8% wholesale subscription 4.6% advertising 7.7% installation & hardware 4.7% others 8.2%.

Ownership of the company is as follows: News UK Nominees Limited (a subsidiary of News Corporation) 39.14% Templeton Global Advisors Limited 5.89% Brandes Investment Partners L.P. 3.12% The Capital Group Companies, Inc. 3.10% Janus Capital Management LLC 3.07% other public and institutional shareholders 45.68%.




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