British Sky Broadcasting Group plc
Type	Public (LSE: BSY)
Founded	1990; BSB 1986 and Sky 1989
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Key people	Rupert Murdoch (Chairman) James Murdoch (CEO)
Industry	Media
Products	Pay TV services Programming
Revenue	£4,148 million (2006)
Operating income	£798 million (2006)
Net income	£551 million (2006)
Employees	16,000
Slogan	Believe In Better
Website	www.sky.com/corporate

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. More than a third of the equity is owned by News Corporation, an American and Australian company chaired by Rupert Murdoch, who also acts as Chairman of BSkyB. (News Corporation's precise shareholding fluctuates due to share options and buy backs and was 39% at February 2007).^[1] For the year to 30 June 2006 BSkyB had turnover of £4.148 billion, and made a profit of £798 million before tax and £551 million after tax. As of 30 June 2006 it had 8,176,000^[2] direct to home customers in the UK and Ireland. However, this figure also includes all those who subscribe to "Sky By Wire" IPTV services such as Tiscali TV. 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Corporate information

Management

Total BSkyB viewing figures 1995-2007

Rupert Murdoch's News International (a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation) currently has a 38% stake in the company. News Corp also fully owns Sky Italia, about 78% of New Zealand's SKY Network Television Limited and Sky FBiH of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/png) BSkyB total viewing figures 1995-2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/png) BSkyB total viewing figures 1995-2007 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: , LSE: NCRA) is an Australian media conglomerate company and one of the worlds largest. ... SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. ... SKY Network Television Limited (ASX: ; NZX: SKT), often trading as SKY, is a New Zealand pay television service. ... The location of the FBiH entity as part of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe. ...

The first CEO of BSkyB was Sam Chisholm, who was CEO of Sky TV before the merger. Chisholm served in this position until 1997. He was followed by Mark Booth who was credited with leading the company through the introduction of Sky Digital. Tony Ball was appointed in 1999 and completed the company's analogue to digital conversion. He is also credited with returning the company to profit and bringing subscriber numbers to new heights. In 2003 Ball announced his resignation and James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch was announced as his successor. This appointment caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders.^[3] “Chief executive” redirects here. ... James Murdoch (born December 1972) is the CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and younger son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. ... Look up nepotism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Organisation

Direct subsidiaries

• British Sky Broadcasting Ltd.
  Operating company for the Sky pay-television service.
• Sky Television Ltd.
  The original Sky Television plc, now a holding company
• Sports Internet Group Ltd.
  Sports content and online betting services.
• British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings Ltd.
  Interactive television services, formerly an alliance of BSkyB, BT Group, HSBC and Matsushita.
• Easynet Ltd.
  Network infrastructure for Sky Broadband, UK Online, and third party corporate customers.
• Mykindaplace.com.
  Being both an agency and a media owner, run many successful sites.
• Aura Sports Ltd
  Media Sales Agency, sells advertising on the majority of premiership football club websites, as well as other major sports.
• Aura Play Ltd
  Another Media Sales Agency, sells advertising across a number of websites in the music and entertainment sector.

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Joint ventures

• Nickelodeon UK (and related channels) (40%)
• The History Channel (UK) (and related channels) (50%)
• Paramount Comedy 1 & 2 (UK) (25%)
• Australian News Channel Pty Limited (33.3%) Operates Sky News Australia with PBL and Seven Network)
• MUTV Limited (33.3%)
• Chelsea Digital Media (35%) - owner of Chealsea TV.
• National Geographic Channel (50%)
• Attheraces Holdings Limited (47.5%)

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Others

Other subsidiaries include Sky In-Home Service Ltd which installs Sky equipment, and the Luxembourg based British Sky Broadcasting SA which is the company which leases transponders on Astra satellites. SES Astra SA, is a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ...

Financial Performance

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Locations

The main headquarters are in Isleworth, London. Sky originated material is uplinked to the satellite from Chilworth, outside Southampton (and from the BT owned Madley and London Teleport earthstations). , Isleworth (IPA: ) is a suburb located in the London Borough of Hounslow alongside the River Thames in West London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Chilworth is a village in Hampshire, UK, very close to the city of Southampton. ... For other uses, see Southampton (disambiguation). ... Madley Communications Centre earth satellite tracking station (photo by Philip Halling) Madley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. ...

The largest concentration of Sky staff in the UK is in Scotland; the main areas being in Livingston and Dunfermline. These house Sky's contact centres as well as the IT departments and Field Operations. This article is about the country. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...

Competition

The Ofcom Consumer Panel complained that the BskyB plan to operate pay TV services on Freeview was "generating serious consumer detriment"^[5] and the National Consumer Council call the BSkyB plan "bad news for consumers,"^[6] combined with representations from BT, Setanta, Top Up TV, and Virgin Media has caused Ofcom to launch an investigation into the "features of the [UK pay TV] market, including control over content, ownership of distribution platforms, retail subscriber bases and vertical integration."^[7] This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... BT may stand for: Baal teshuvah, a Jew who became Orthodox (female version: Baalat teshuvah) BT tank, any of a series of Soviet military tanks Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterium which forms Bt toxins Banjo-Tooie, a video game for the Nintendo 64 Baronet, a title in the British honours... Young Cúchulainn, 1912 illustration by Stephen Reid. ... Top Up TV is a pay TV service provided in the United Kingdom. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... Ofcom is a regulator for communication industries in the United Kingdom. ...

Virgin Media

At present the other major pay-TV operator in the United Kingdom is the service provider Virgin Media (Rebranded in 2007 from NTL:Telewest). Virgin Media's cable network was also formed by numerous mergers and acquisitions over the last decade, with different cable companies having used different types of network and technology in their areas. This has made it difficult for the company to roll out new services across the UK quickly. Virgin Media Inc. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... This page deals with the combination of two companies into one. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions (M&A) refers to the aspect of business strategy and management dealing with the merging and/or acquiring of different companies. ...

Virgin Media includes the Virgin Media Television production company which owns several channels, including a 50% stake in the UKTV network. The company's cable television service used to carry the majority of BSkyB's channels, making it one of BSkyB's most important customers as well as its biggest rival, however on February 28, 2007 BSkyB stopped offering their channel to Virgin Media Customers. Virgin Media Television (formerly known as Flextech) is a British television company and is entirely owned by the British cable company Virgin Media (previously known as NTL and Telewest) and acts as its television programme production arm. ... This article is about the UKTV network of channels in the UK and Ireland. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Virgin Media competes with Sky on price, and is able to differentiate itself from Sky through its ability to offer bundles of services such as Internet access and telephone service. Following NTL's purchase of Virgin Mobile in 2006, Virgin Media also offers a mobile telephone service.

Like Sky, Virgin Media offers High-definition television (HDTV) services. However, the number of channels available is limited by BSkyB's refusal to allow the HDTV channels it owns to be broadcast by other companies. This situation is somewhat addressed, however, by the fact that Virgin can provide HDTV content using its Video on Demand services and the fact that the V+ HDTV-supplying box can upscale all of its received transmissions to near-HDTV quality. Projection screen in a home theater, displaying a high-definition television image. ... The Sky HD logo Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by BSkyB on 22 May 2006 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky Digital to be viewed. ... Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive television system. ... Old TVDrive Logo V+ (previously known as TV Drive) is a product from Virgin Media which provides Personal Video Recording (PVR) and High Definition (HD) functionality to customers who subscribe to the service. ... It has been suggested that high end be merged into this article or section. ...

On 1 March 2007, BSkyB removed its basic Sky channels from the Virgin Media service after requesting Virgin pay the company £35,000,000, for the rights to show the channels, in what has been seen as an effort to move existing Virgin media customers to Sky. Virgin have refused outright to pay the sum, and, in a press release on Virgin Media's website, have said they will continue to "stand-up for the consumer" against, what has been seen, by all non-Murdoch owned British press, as "playground bully tactics". Recent print advertising for Sky however claims that Virgin media 'doubted the value' of the channels concerned, and implies the decision to drop the channels was that of Virgin Media. On 6 March 2007 Sky launched a radio advert urging Virgin customers to migrate to Sky to access their "favourite shows". is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Virgin Media has now decided to take legal action on British Sky Broadcasting for taking away their Sky Basic channels from Virgin media customers.

Television over ADSL services

Sky is facing increased competition from telecommunications providers delivering pay television services over existing telephone lines using ADSL. Such providers are potentially able to offer "triple-play" or "quad-play" packages combining land-line telephone, broadband Internet, mobile telephone and pay television services. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ...

In the final quarter of 2006, BT, the UK's biggest Telephone company, launched BT Vision. The BT Vision set-top box, provides true Video on Demand (VoD) over BT's telephone lines using ADSL. The set-top-box complements the VoD component by providing access to the Freeview digital terrestrial television service. It is expected that before the end of 2007, Virgin Media and Tiscali TV will have rolled out similar services to parts of the country not currently served by their cable networks. Additionally, Orange are also planning such a service. BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (pronounced Bee tee) (also previously as British Telecom and is still commonly known as such amongst the general public) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. ... BT Vision is a service provided in the United Kingdom supplied by BT Group. ... A set-top box (STB) or set-top unit (STU) is a device that connects to a television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into content which is then displayed on the television screen. ... Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ... This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... Tiscali TV is a UK-based consumer Video on Demand service, operated by the European telephony company, Tiscali SpA. The service, originally known as Homechoice, was provided by Video Networks Limited (VNL), based in Shepherds Bush in West London, until it was purchased by Tiscali UK in August 2006... Orange SA IPA: is a mobile network operator and an internet service provider that is a subsidiary of France Télécom. ...

To compete with these providers, in October 2005, BSkyB bought the broadband Internet Service Provider Easynet for £211 million. This acquisition has allowed BSkyB to recently start offering its "Sky Anytime on PC" service as well as a "triple play" package combining satellite television, land-line telephone and Broadband service. Broadband in telecommunications is a term that refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... “ISP” redirects here. ... Easynet is a pan-European advanced network owner with operations in ten European countries. ... In telecommunications, the Triple Play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of the three services: high-speed Internet, television (Video on Demand or regular broadcasts) and telephone service over a single broadband connection. ...

Digital Terrestrial Television

BSkyB initially faced competition from the ONdigital digital terrestrial television service (later renamed ITV Digital). ITV Digital failed for numerous reasons, including, but not limited to numerous administrative and technical failures, nervous investors after a large down-turn in the advertising market and the dot com crash, and BSkyB's aggressive marketing and domination of premium sporting rights. ITV Digital used to be the sole British terrestrial digital television broadcaster. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Sky was more receptive to ITV Digital's FTA replacement, Freeview, in which it holds an equal stake with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and National Grid Wireless. At the time of writing, three BSkyB channels are available on this platform: Sky News, Sky Three, and Sky Sports News. Initially BSkyB provided Sky Travel to the service. However, this was replaced by Sky Three on 31 October 2005, allowing BSkyB to air its exclusive licensed content with delays of between 12-18 months from their original air dates on Sky One. Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ... This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... ITV plc (LSE: ITV) is the British media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about the British television station. ... National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle UK) is a company which provides telecommunications infrastructure and broadcast transmission facilities in the UK. Its main customers are broadcasters and mobile phone network operators, and its main asset is a network of over 1,000 radio masts and towers. ... Sky News is a 24-hour British domestic and international television news channel that started broadcasting on 16 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service, as well as a hourly news radio service in the UK. Broadcast of a 24-hour radio service is due... Sky Three is a television station from BSkyB broadcasting to the the UK, designed to accompany their existing Sky One and Sky Two subscription channels. ... Sky Sports News (SSN) is a 24-hour sports news channel in the United Kingdom. ... Sky Travel is a channel from BSkyB that shows extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentries. ... Sky Three is a television station from BSkyB broadcasting to the the UK, designed to accompany their existing Sky One and Sky Two subscription channels. ... is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

Terrestrial television companies currently have limited bandwidth. This means that, at present, there is little or no option to offer HD services, until after the final analogue television services are switched off in 2012 freeing up substantial bandwidth.

In a response to the push towards Free to Air services such as Freesat and Freeview, BSkyB has marketed its own free to view offering (Freesat from Sky). Freesat is a BBC-owned trademark for free to air digital satellite television services targeting the UK. It is used as a tradename by two, differing systems, one of which is not purely free-to-air. ... This article is about the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television service. ... BSkyB Logo Freesat from Sky is a British non subscription based satellite service from BSkyB which gives viewers access to 150 channels. ...

On February 8, 2007, Sky announced its intention to replace its three free-to-air digital terrestrial channels with four subscription channels. It was proposed that these channels would offer a range of content from the Sky portfolio including sport (including English Premiership Football), movies, entertainment and news.^[8] The announcement came a day after Setanta Sports confirmed that it would launch in March as a subscription service on the digital terrestrial platform, and on the same day that NTL's services rebranded as Virgin Media. However, industry sources believe Sky will be forced to shelve plans to withdraw its channels from Freeview and replace them with subscription channels, due to possible lost advertising revenue.^[9] is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Setanta Sports (pronunciation: ) is an international sports broadcaster, operating 12 channels in 24 countries. ... Virgin Media Inc. ...

History

The Astra satellite network began with the launch of Astra 1A in 1989. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward BSkyB was able to begin expanding its services (the Astra satellites were all orbitally co-located so that they could be received using the same dish). SES Astra SA, is a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Astra 1A was the first satellite launched and operated by Société Européenne des Satellites (SES), now SES Astra. ...

Sky does not own any of the satellites it has used since withdrawing service from the Marcopolo craft; the Astra satellites are owned and operated by SES Astra and Eurobird 1 by Eutelsat. Sky has shared its orbital position with other pay-TV systems in the past. SES Astra SA, is a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ...

Origins

Further information: Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting

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Early years

Evolution of UK satellite television

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The new company was called British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) but marketed as Sky, Marco Polo House was sold, BSB's channels were largely scrapped in favour of Sky's and the Marco Polo satellites were run down and eventually sold in favour of the Astra system (Marcopolo I in December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo II in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway. Both companies had already one HS376 in orbit at the time). The merger may have saved Sky financially; despite its popularity, Sky had very few major advertisers to begin with. Acquiring BSB's healthier advertising contracts and equipment apparently solved the company's problems. Marco Polo House is a large building at 346 Queenstown Road facing Battersea Park in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... Marcopolo 1 and 2 (spelled thus) were two satellites launched in 1989 in order to carry the five television channels of Britains official direct broadcast satellite company, British Satellite Broadcasting. ... SES Astra SA, is a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit approximately 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 transponders to 91 million households across Europe. ... Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) is a company that operates two SIRIUS satellites, which provide the Nordic countries and the Baltic states, with TV, radio, data and communications solutions. ... Telenor (OSE: TEL, NASDAQ: TELN) is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. ...

Move to Digital

The launch of the first Astra 2 series satellite at a new orbital position, 28.2° east, in 1997 (followed by more Astra satellites as well as Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 at 28.5°E), enabled the company to launch a new all-digital service, Sky Digital, with the potential to carry hundreds of television and radio channels. The Astra 2 fleet at 28.2° east maintains a geostationary orbit 35,600 km from earth and was built by Hughes (now Boeing Satellite Systems) and Astrium (now EADS Astrium). Eutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. ... Eurobird 1 is a Eutelsat operated satellite, used for digital television. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Geostationary orbit A geostationary orbit (GEO) is a geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earths equator (0° latitude), with orbital eccentricity of zero. ... Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5 billion. ... Boeing Satellite Systems is a major business unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. ... EADS Astrium, one of the three business units of EADS Space, this company being a subsidiary of EADS, is an European space manufacturer involved in the manufacture of spacecraft used for science, Earth observation and telecommunication, as well as the equipment and subsystems used therein and related ground systems. ... EADS Astrium, one of the three business units of EADS Space, this company being a subsidiary of EADS, is an European space manufacturer involved in the manufacture of spacecraft used for science, Earth observation and telecommunication, as well as the equipment and subsystems used therein and related ground systems. ...

Timeline

• 1989 Feb 5 — Sky television launches DTH UK service via Astra satellite
• 1990 — Sky subscribers reach 1 million
• 1990 November — British Sky Broadcasting formed by merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB). Murdoch the majority shareholder through News International, BSB partners Pearson and Granada become minority shareholders through BSB Holdings Limited (BSBH)
• 1991 — Of BSB's five channels; Now news programmes merged with Sky News, Galaxy merged with Sky One, the Sports Channel and Movie Channel are maintained, Powerstation is withdrawn. Sky One, Sky News and Sky Movies maintained but Eurosport is withdrawn
• 1992 July — BSkyB sells the former BSB Marcopolo II satellite to Telenor
• 1992 — BSkyB signs exclusive live television rights deal with the FA Premier League
• 1992 December 31 — BSkyB ceases transmissions to Marcopolo I satellite
• 1993 — "Sky Multichannel" packages launched
• 1993 — December — BSkyB sells the former BSB Marcopolo I satellite to NSAB
• 1994 — 17% of BSkyB is floated on the London and New York stock exchanges
• 1994 — Five more channels launch, including Sky Sports 2
• 1995 — Six more channels launched including History Channel and Disney Channel
• 1995 — BSkyB enter the FTSE 100 Index
• 1996 — BSkyB signs an extension of its Premier League rights for £670 million

• 1998 August 30 — First of a new generation of Astra satellites launched, paving way for digital satellite television. Sky Digital launches on October 1
• 1999 — Vivendi SA becomes sole shareholder of BSBH, which held 11.8% of BSkyB at the time. It also acquired the shareholding of Pathé through merger, bringing its total shareholding to 22% (as of 2001). BSkyB Chairman Jérôme Seydoux forced to resign due to sale of Pathé's interest; Murdoch takes Chairmanship to prevent Vivendi acquiring it (as it would be entitled to)
• 2001 — BSkyB signs 5 millionth subscriber. Analogue service discontinued
• 2001 — Sky+ introduced: A set top box/digital video recorder hybrid
• 2001 — December — Vivendi Universal sells part of its shareholding comprising 8% of the company, followed by the remaining 14% in May 2002
• 2002 — BSkyB takes an equal share of Freeview, in partnership with the BBC and Crown Castle (now part of National Grid)
• 2003 — James Murdoch elected as CEO, replacing Tony Ball
• 2003 — Sky subscribers reach 7.5 million
• 2003 — Sky acquires the television series 24 from Fox which was previously shown on the BBC
• 2005 — BSkyB purchase network provider Easynet for £211m ($373.1m).^[10]
• 2005 — Sky launches Sky by Broadband, a service available to existing movie and sports service subscribers that allows them to download movies and sports clips direct to their home computer. The service is made available free of charge
• 2006 — Sky HD launches on May 22, with a line-up of 10 high definition channels
• 2006 — Sky acquires Mykindaplace.com to expand its internet presence
• 2006 — Sky acquires Aura Sports Ltd to expand its internet media sales presence
• 2006 — Sky achieves CarbonNeutral status^[11]
• 2006 — Sky launches and allows pre-registering of its new broadband service
• 2006 — Sky is listed as one of the applicants for the licence to manage Ireland's digital terrestrial television network
• 2006 — Sky acquires Season 3 and 4 of Lost in a multi-million pound deal with Buena Vista International Television (previous series were shown on Channel 4)
• 2006 — Sky acquires 17.9% stake in ITV, Britain's largest free-to-air commercial broadcaster.
• 2006 — Sky rebrands VOD services, such as Sky By Broadband, as Sky Anytime, adding US imports to on-demand content.
• 2007 — Sky announces plans to launch pay channels on the digital terrestrial platform.
• 2007 — Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Alistair Darling asks media regulator Ofcom to investigate Sky's purchase of a stake in ITV plc.^[12]
• 2007 — Sky's increased price demands causes Virgin Media to not renew the contract to provide Sky basic channels (effective from 1 March 2007) after negotiations falls through.
• 2007 — BSkyB acquire electronics manufacturer Amstrad for a reported £125 million.^[13]
• 2007 October 29 — Sky Broadband reach 1 million customer mark.^[14]
• 2007 October 29 — BSkyB offer to give up part of their ITV voting rights after a ruling from the Competition Commission.^[15]

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Future

Sky Digital "mini-dish"

The Economist has suggested that News Corporation would eventually like to merge BSkyB with its US satellite operation, DirecTV and possibly its Star network to form a global satellite TV company^{[citation needed]}. However, News Corporation has now sold its stake in DirecTV; in return for the sale Murdoch got John Malone's stake in News Corp. Sky is also rumoured to be interested in adding NFL Sunday Ticket (currently available on DirecTV in the US). Image File history File links Sky_minidish. ... Image File history File links Sky_minidish. ... The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London. ... A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America except for Mexico. ... Star TV can refer to the following: Star TV (Ukraine): An electronic/club music channel in Ukraine Star TV (Turkey): A general entertainment channel in Turkey Star TV (Tanzania): A television station in Tanzania STAR TV (Asia): An Asian satellite service owned by News Corporation Startv (Canada): A Canadian weekly... A standard DirecTV satellite dish with 1 LNB on a roof DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service based in El Segundo, California, USA, that transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America except for Mexico. ... John C. Malone is the current chairman of Liberty Media. ... News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ... NFL Sunday Ticket is an Out-of-Market Sports Package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable on local affiliates. ...

EPG

Sky has recently developed a new version of its Sky Guide electronic programme guide (EPG) service, which includes new genres, easier access to channels, and a complete renumbering system. It also includes new hotkeys to get into new menus quicker. This is the biggest change to the Sky EPG since its launch in 1998. An electronic program (or programme) guide, or EPG, is a program schedule, typically broadcast alongside digital television or radio signals. ... The Sky Digital EPG in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ...

On Demand services

Main article: Sky Anytime

Sky Anytime is the current brand for Sky's on-demand services currently available on TV, PC and 3G mobile phones. Sky Anytime is the brand-name of a range of on demand services from BSkyB designed to compete with Video on demand services currently offered by cable companies such as Virgin Media. ... 3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, after 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, IMT-2000. 3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving...

High Definition TV (HDTV)

Main article: Sky HD

BSkyB launched its HDTV service, Sky HD, on 22 May 2006. Leading up to the launch, Sky claimed that 40,000 people had signed up to the HD service. However, in the week before the launch rumours started to surface that Sky was having supply problems of its Set Top Box (STB) from manufacturer Thomson. Starting on Thursday 18 May, and then all through the weekend before launch, people were reporting that Sky had either cancelled or rescheduled its installations. Finally, the BBC reported that 17,000 customers had been let down for the launch due to failed deliveries.^[16] Some customers reported installations were only cancelled on the day of the launch. The episode was widely seen as being very embarrassing for Sky, who until that point had been extremely conservative in new service launch schedules. The supply problems were resolved shortly after launch. The Sky HD logo Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by BSkyB on 22 May 2006 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky Digital to be viewed. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ... The Sky HD logo Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by BSkyB on 22 May 2006 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky Digital to be viewed. ... is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the media and entertainment company. ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

According to figures published by Sky, there were 244,000 subscribers to the Sky HD service by 31st March 2007.

Football rights

BSkyB's purchase of broadcast rights for major sporting events, most importantly Premiership football, has been the bedrock of its success. The company paid over £300 million for the FA Premier League rights, beating the BBC and ITV, and has had a monopoly of live matches since the inception of the Premier League in 1992. Murdoch has described sport as a "battering ram" for pay-television, providing a strong customer base.^[17] For the Scottish equivalent see Scottish Premier League The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in England and the Barclays English Premier League or just simply The EPL internationally) is a league competition for football clubs located at the top of the English football league system... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting...

However, following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly will come to an end from the 2007–08 season. In May 2006 the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premiership packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for £1.3 billion.^[18] The 2007-2008 season will be the 128th season of competitive football in England. ... Setanta Sports (pronunciation: ) is an international sports broadcaster, operating 12 channels in 24 countries. ...

BT offer a pay per view service of selected Premier League matches through their BT Vision service^[19], and Virgin Media offer free highlights on the Virgin Media website. ^[20] BT Vision is a service provided in the United Kingdom supplied by BT Group. ... Virgin Media Inc. ...

Set Top Boxes and conditional access

Sky utilizes the VideoGuard pay-TV scrambling system owned by NDS, a News Corporation subsidiary. There are tight controls over use of VideoGuard decoders; they are not available as stand-alone DVB CAMs (Conditional Access Modules). BSkyB has design authority over all digital satellite receivers capable of receiving their service. The receivers, though designed and built by different manufacturers, must conform to the same user interface look-and-feel as all the others. This extends to the Personal video recorder (PVR) offering (branded Sky+). Although the manufacturers have to follow BSkyB's design criteria. Many people think that giving the broadcaster such total control over the viewing experience (and viewing prices) may keep other PVR features from appearing on BSkyB's receivers due to the monopoly position over the decoding CAMs^{[citation needed]}. BSkyB initially charged additional subscription fees for using a Sky+ PVR with their service; however, from early 2004, this additional £10 per month charge was waived for subscribers whose package includes two or more premium channels or Sky HD boxes to encourage existing owners to upgrade. As from July 1, 2007, customers that do have Sky+ and pay £10 (as they don't subscribe to 2 or more premium channels) will get Sky+ free of charge. The few customers that don't subscribe to Sky's channels and have Sky+ still pay the £10 per month. In September 2007, Sky launched a new TV advertising campaign targeting Sky+ at women.^[21] VideoGuard, produced by NDS, is a digital encryption system for use with conditional access television broadcasting. ... NDS Group plc is a DRM and conditional access firm. ... Official DVB logo, found on compliant devices DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted open standards for digital television. ... A Conditional Access Module (CAM) is an electronic device, usually incorporating a slot for a smart card, which gives a DVB television or set-top box with the appropriate hardware the facility to decrypt scrambled programmes. ... A digital video recorder (DVR) is a device that records video to a digital storage medium in digital form. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Television channels operated by BSkyB

• At The Races — formerly operated by Channel 4; now owned by Sky
• Sky Active — rebranded from Open...
• Sky Arts — rebranded from Artsworld on March 1, 2007
• Sky Arts HD — rebranded from Artsworld HD on March 1, 2007
• Sky Box Office (pay-per-view)
• Sky Box Office Events
• Sky Box Office HD 1 & 2
• Sky Movies Premiere, Premiere+1, Comedy, Classics, Family, Modern Greats, Indie, Sci-Fi & Horror, Action & Thriller and Drama (from April 4, 2007 these channels supersede Sky Movies, 1–10 and Sky Cinema 1 and 2 which in turn supersede Sky Movies Premier 1–5, Sky Movies Max/Moviemax 1–4 and Sky Movies Cinema 1 & 2, but not necessarily in that order)
• Sky Movies HD 1 and 2 — Dedicated High-definition television Movie Channels
• Sky News
• Sky One
• Sky One HD
• Sky Two — rebranded from Sky Mix on 31 October 2005
• Sky Three — one of the only free-to-view BSkyB channels
• Sky Sports 1–3
• Sky Sports Xtra
• Sky Sports HD 1-2
• Sky Sports News
• Sky Real Lives - rebranded from Sky Travel on 7 November 2007
• Sky Real Lives +1 - rebranded from Sky Travel +1 on 7 November 2007
• Sky Real Lives 2 - rebranded from Sky Travel Extra on 7 November 2007
• Sky Travel - rebranded from Sky Travel Shop on 7 November 2007
• Sky Vegas — rebranded from Sky Vegas Live on 19 April 2006
• Sky Poker

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See also

• Sky Digital (UK & Ireland) EPG
• Sky Broadband
• Sky Kids magazine
• Sky Magazine

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Sky News is a 24-hour British domestic and international television news channel that started broadcasting on 16 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service, as well as a hourly news radio service in the UK. Broadcast of a 24-hour radio service is due... Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of 9 channels. ... Sky Sports News (SSN) is a 24-hour sports news channel in the United Kingdom. ... Sky Real Lives is a channel from BSkyB that shows extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentries. ... Sky Travel was first launched in 2003 as Sky Travel Shop, and showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentries, with Sky Travel Shop being the adverts for travel agencies. ... Sky Vegas is an interactive entertainment channel that broadcasts gambling programming live from around 6pm to around 2am. ... At the Races is a United Kingdom television channel, formerly run by Channel 4, but now owned by British Sky Broadcasting. ... The History Channel UK is a British television channel broadcasting programmes related to historical events and persons. ... MUTV is a British subscription based television channel, operated by Manchester United F.C.. The channel offers Manchester United fans exclusive interviews with players and staff, full matches, including all Premier League games (not broadcast live), reserves games and classic matches plus footballing news and other themed programming. ... “Music Choice (UK)” redirects here. ... The National Geographic Channel is a British television channel that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. ... Nickelodeon (Nick for short) is a cable and satellite TV network primarily for children and pre-teens. ... Paramount Comedy is a television channel shown in the UK. As the name suggests, it is owned by Paramount Pictures (aka Viacom) and concentrates on comedy. ... Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... BSkyB Logo Freesat from Sky is a British non subscription based satellite service from BSkyB which gives viewers access to 150 channels. ... Sky Magazine was a UK magazine started in the late 1980s which ceased publication in 2001. ... The Sky HD logo Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by BSkyB on 22 May 2006 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland to enable high definition channels on Sky Digital to be viewed. ... Sky Broadband (not to be confused with Sky Anytimes previous brand, Sky By Broadband) is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings DSL Internet Service that launched in Summer 2006, after BSkyB purchased network provider Easynet in 2005 for a reported £211 million. ... Sky Anytime is the brand-name of a range of on demand services from BSkyB designed to compete with Video on demand services currently offered by cable companies such as Virgin Media. ... Sky Active is the brand name for interactive features on Sky Digital and is available in the UK and Ireland. ... Sky Text is the Digital Teletext Service operated by British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) in the United Kingdom. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into British Sky Broadcasting. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Sky Picnic is a upcoming pay TV service on Freeview. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: , LSE: NCRA) is an Australian media conglomerate company and one of the worlds largest. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... Chairman of the Board redirects here. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... Chase Carey has served as a Director and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of DirecTV since December 22, 2003. ... Peter Chernin (born May 29, 1951 in Harrison, New York) is President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of the Fox Group. ... David DeVoe is the CFO of News Corporation. ... Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) has been a executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. ... Sir Rod Eddington is an Australian businessman perhaps best known as CEO of British Airways from 2000 to 2005. ... Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1st November 1939 in England) is a journalist, editor, and media magnate. ... Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. ... Thomas James Perkins (Born 1932), American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. ... Viet D. Dinh This is a Vietnamese name; the surname is Dinh. ... John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. ... News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... News Limited was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch until the formation of News Corporation in 1979. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... This article is about a British tabloid. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... thelondonpaper is the trading name of a free newspaper, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International (who also own the companies which publish The Sun and The Times). ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... 20th Century Fox Animation is the animation division of film studio 20th Century Fox. ... 20th Century Fox Television is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... 20th Television (also referred to as Twentieth Television) is a U.S. television distribution company that was formed in 1992 by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. ... Blue Sky Studios is an Academy Award winning computer animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. ... Fox Atomic logo Fox Atomic is a theatrical movie studio and a sub-division of Twentieth Century Fox. ... Fox Faith (also spelled FoxFaith) is a brand of film studio Twentieth Century Fox targeting evangelical Christians. ... Fox Searchlight Pictures logo. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Fox Television Studios is the sister television arm of 20th Century Fox Television. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... This is an incomplete list of Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates. ... MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation. ... Fox Business Network is a United States-based cable and satellite news channel that commenced broadcasting on October 15, 2007 at 5:00 a. ... Fox College Sports is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes primarily in College sports. ... Fox Movie Channel, formerly fXM, is a television channel that concentrates on showing movies uncut and commercial-free. ... “Fox News” redirects here. ... Fox Reality is a reality TV network on U.S. cable and satellite. ... Fox Soccer Channel is a United States digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in soccer. ... Fox Sports en Español is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ... Fuel TV is a 24 hr. ... FX (for Fox eXtended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ... The National Geographic Channel is a subscription television network that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. ... SPEED Channel, based in Charlotte, NC, was launched on New Years Day 1996, by Roger Werner, as SpeedVision. ... SportSouth is a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. ... TV Guide Network is a cable network produced by Gemstar-TV Guide International. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... In the broadcasting industry (especially in North America), an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. ... KDFW, channel 4, is the Fox owned and operated television station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex designated market area. ... KDVR is a television station on UHF Channel 31 (573. ... KMSP-TV, channel 9, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... KRIV, FOX26 is the Fox owned-and-operated affiliate in Houston, Texas, USA. It is co-owned with UPN affiliate KTXH. Both stations share the same studio complex on 4261 Southwest Freeway in Houston. ... KSAZ-TV is the owned-and-operated FOX station in Phoenix, Arizona. ... KSTU (FOX13) is the Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Salt Lake City, Utah television market. ... KTBC (FOX 7) is the FOX owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. ... KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. ... KTVI is the Fox owned and operated station in St. ... WAGA is or was the callsing of 2 broadcasting stations in Atlanta: WAGA TV, Fox 5 The former WAGA-FM 102. ... WBRC, channel 6, Fox 6 is the Fox O&O Station in the Birmingham/Anniston/Tuscaloosa, Alabama television market. ... WDAF TV Channel 4 is The Fox Owned & Operated Television station for The Kansas City Market. ... WFLD is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Chicago, Illinois. ... WFXT is the Fox owned and operated television station for Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. ... WGHP (FOX8) is the FOX television station which serves the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Piedmont Triad) market area. ... WHBQ-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Memphis, Tennessee. ... WITI FOX6 Milwaukee is a Fox network owned-and-operated television station (O&O) located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... WJBK (FOX2) is the Fox-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. ... WJW, channel 8, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Cleveland, Ohio. ... WNYW, channel 5, is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ... WOFL, FOX 35, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. ... WOGX is Fox networks owned-and-operated station serving the Gainesville, Florida television market, but also serves the neighboring portions of the Orlando and Jacksonville markets. ... WTTG, FOX5 DC is an owned and operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. ... WTVT is a television station in Tampa, Florida. ... WTXF-TV, channel 29, is an owned-and-operated station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation. ... KCOP, channel 13, is a television station in Los Angeles, California. ... KDFI, My 27, is a MyNetworkTV owned and operated station broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. ... KTXH, channel 20, is currently the MyNetworkTV owned and operated station in Houston, Texas. ... KUTP is a My Network TV owned and operated station in Phoenix, Arizona. ... WDCA channel 20 (digital channel 35) is the Washington, D.C. areas MyNetworkTV owned and operated station with transmitter facilities located in Bethesda, Maryland. ... WFTC, channel 29, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis-St. ... WPWR-TV is a broadcast-television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, serving the Chicago, Illinois, viewing area. ... WRBW is a My Network TV owned and operated station serving the Orlando/Daytona Beach/Melbourne, Florida television market. ... WUTB is the UPN affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland, broadcasting on channel 24 (digital channel 41). ... WWOR-TV, channel 9, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area. ... B1 TV is a television station located in Bucharest. ... bTV is the first private-owned national television channel in Bulgaria. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Fox Life is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across Latin America, Europe and Japan (where it broadcasts on high definition). ... Fox Crime is a television network, launched by the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs across several countries of Europe, such as Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria. ... Fox Sports en Latinoamérica is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Fox Televizija is a Serbian commercial television network that was launched on November 30, 2006 and is full owned by the Fox Corporation. ... Foxtel is a subscription television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ... FX is a British TV channel owned by Fox, launched in 2004 and originally branded as FX289 in reference to its Sky Digital EPG number. ... Imedi Media Holding refers to a private TV and Radio Company in Georgia. ... The National Geographic Channel is a British television channel that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. ... SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. ... SKY Network Television Limited (ASX: ; NZX: SKT), often trading as SKY, is a New Zealand pay television service. ... STAR (Satellite Television for the Asian Region) is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... TV Puls is polish commercial television start in March 2001. ... XYZnetworks owns, operates and distributes eleven of the leading subscription television channels in Australia. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... Dow Jones redirects here. ... Fox News Talk is a channel on XM Satellite Radios US platform that showcases talk shows and news reports from Fox News Channel personalities and syndicated show hosts such as Tony Snow and Alan Colmes. ... HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. ... NDS Group plc is a DRM and conditional access firm. ... News Outdoor Group is the largest outdoor advertising company in Eastern Europe, it is a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... 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The FTSE 100 Index (or just the FTSE, pronounced footsie) is a share index of the 100 most highly capitalised companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. ... is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 3i · Alliance & Leicester · Anglo American · Antofagasta · Associated British Foods · AstraZeneca · Aviva · BAE Systems · BG Group · BHP Billiton · BP · BT Group · Barclays Bank · Barratt Developments · British Airways · British American Tobacco · British Energy Group · British Land Company · British Sky Broadcasting Group · Cable & Wireless · Cadbury Schweppes · Capita Group · Carnival · Carphone Warehouse · Centrica · Compass Group · DSG International · Daily Mail and General Trust · Diageo · Enterprise Inns · Experian · Friends Provident · GlaxoSmithKline · HBOS · HSBC · Hammerson · Home Retail Group · ICAP · ITV · Imperial Chemical Industries · Imperial Tobacco · InterContinental Hotels Group · International Power · INVESCO · Johnson Matthey · Kazakhmys · Kingfisher · Land Securities Group · Legal & General · Liberty International · Lloyds TSB · Lonmin · Man Group · Marks & Spencer · Mitchells & Butlers · Wm Morrison Supermarkets · National Grid · Next · Northern Rock · Old Mutual · Pearson · Persimmon · Prudential · Punch Taverns · Reckitt Benckiser · Reed Elsevier · Rentokil Initial · Resolution · Reuters Group · Rexam · Rio Tinto Group · Rolls-Royce Group · Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance · Royal Bank of Scotland Group · Royal Dutch Shell · SABMiller · Sage Group · J Sainsbury · Schroders · Scottish & Newcastle · Scottish and Southern Energy · Severn Trent · Shire Pharmaceuticals Group · Smith & Nephew · Smiths Group · Standard Chartered Bank · Standard Life · Tate & Lyle · Taylor Wimpey · Tesco · Tullow Oil · Unilever · United Utilities · Vedanta Resources · Vodafone · WPP Group · Whitbread · Wolseley · Xstrata · Yell Group Company Name: 3i PLC Company Logo: Company Type: Public Founded: 1945 Created by a syndicate of several British banks]] Location: [London]], England| Key people: Philip Yea, CEO Baroness Hogg, Chairman Industry = Venture Capital and Private Equity Homepage = [1] 3i Group PLC is a venture capital and private equity firm quoted... Alliance & Leicester plc (LSE: AL.) is an awful British bank, formerly a building society. ... Anglo American plc (LSE: AAL, JSE: ANGLO) is a world-wide group of companies, originally founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. ... Antifagass plc (LSE: ANTO) is a mining company which specialises in copper. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... AstraZeneca PLC (LSE: AZN, NYSE: AZN), is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company formed on 6 April 1999 by the merger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group. ... For Aviva Incorporated, operating as Aviva Natural Health Solutions, see Aviva Inc. ... BAE Systems plc is the worlds third largest defence contractor,[3] the largest in Europe and a commercial aerospace manufacturer. ... BG Group Plc (LSE: BG.) is an energy production and distribution company which has its headquarters in Reading outside London, England. ... BHP Billiton is the worlds largest mining company. ... This article is about the energy corporation. ... BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (pronounced Bee tee) (also previously as British Telecom and is still commonly known as such amongst the general public) is the privatised UK state telecommunications operator. ... The Barclays Group is based in One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays plc (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is a global financial services provider and sportswear consultancy operating in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, Asia and Africa. ... Barratt Developments plc is one of the largest residential property development companies in the United Kingdom. ... For the 1930s airline of similar name, see British Airways Ltd. ... British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS, AMEX: BTI, KLSE: BAT) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world. ... British Energy plc (LSE: BGY) is the UKs largest electricity generator by volume and a constituent company of FTSE 100. ... The British Land Company PLC (LSE: BLND) is one of the largest property development and investment companies in the United Kingdom. ... Cable and Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. ... Cadbury Schweppes plc (Cadbury Trebor Bassett), (NYSE: CSG) is a confectionery and beverage company with its headquarters in London. ... Capita is a British company headquartered in London which specialises in business process outsourcing, having clients in central and local government, and in the private sector. ... The British-American corporation, Carnival Corporation & PLC is the worlds largest cruise operator, comprising 12 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Windstar Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P&O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village Holidays and Swan Hellenic in the United... The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC (LSE: CPW), known as The Carphone Warehouse, is Europes largest independent mobile phone retailer, with over 1,700 stores across Europe. ... Centrica plc (LSE: CNA) is a large multinational company, based in the United Kingdom but also with interests in North America and Europe. ... The British company Compass Group LSE: CPG is one of the largest food service businesses in the world. ... The United Kingdom based company DSG international plc (aka DSGi), formerly Dixons Stores Group plc, is one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe. ... Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) is one of the UKs largest media companies and has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. ... It has been suggested that Diageo Brands be merged into this article or section. ... Enterprise Inns Plc is a UK leased and tenanted pub company, headquartered in Solihull, West Midlands IN England. ... Experian is a global information solutions company, with operations in over 30 countries around the world, including the USA, UK, most European countries, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, China, Japan and Australia. ... Friends Provident plc (LSE: FP.) manages a life assurance business mainly based in the United Kingdom and with offices throughout the world. ... GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK NYSE: GSK) is a British based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company. ... Group headquarters on The Mound, Edinburgh HBOS Office at Trinity Road, Halifax HBOS plc (LSE: HBOS) is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom, the holding company for Halifax plc and the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland. ... For other uses, see HSBC (disambiguation). ... Hammerson plc (LSE: HMSO) is a major British property development and investment company. ... The Home Retail Group, formerly Argos Retail Group, is a holding company for the UK retailers Argos, Homebase and the financial services division for both companies, including ARG Financial Services, comprising of ARG Card Services (handling store cards such as the Argos Card), ARG Insurance Services (handling in the store... ICAP plc LSE: IAP is a British based inter-dealer stock broker, the largest in the world, carrying out transactions for financial institutions rather than private individuals. ... ITV plc (LSE: ITV) is the British media company that operates 11 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (LSE: IMT) is the largest tobacco manufacturer in the UK (the second largest UK-based tobacco company by global sales after British American Tobacco). ... InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. ... International Power plc is a leading independent electricity generating company with 16,642 MW (net) in operation and 1,729 MW (net) under construction. ... AMVESCAP plc (LSE: AVZ, NYSE: AVZ) is an investment management company based in London, England. ... Johnson Matthey plc (LSE: JMAT) is a British chemical company which has its headquarters near Holborn in central London. ... Kazakhmys Plc (LSE: KAZ) is a UK-registered copper mining company which main assets are located in Kazakhstan. ... Kingfisher plc is a UK-based international retailer, which has owned a wide variety of retail chains in its history but is now focused on the DIY business. ... Land Securities Group plc is a leading British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... 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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE: RBS) is a banking and insurance holding company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.[1] It includes the The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (Scottish Gaelic: [2]) founded in 1727 by a Royal Charter of King George I.[3] The RBS Group is... Royal Dutch Shell plc is a multinational oil company of British and Dutch origins. ... SABMiller (South African Breweries - Miller) (LSE: SAB, JSE: SAB,Official site) is one of the world’s largest brewers, with brewing interests and distribution agreements in over 60 countries across six continents. ... The Sage Group plc (LSE: SGE) is a leading UK based supplier of accounting, payroll, CRM and business management software (including manufacturing and construction-specific ranges) as well as related services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). ... This article is about the supermarket business. ... Schroders plc is a British investment management company with its headquarters in the City of London. ... 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A tin of Lyles Golden Syrup Tate & Lyle PLC is a UK based multinational food manufacturer and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE. It is a major producer of refined sugar, starches, animal feed and other food ingredients with global operations. ... Taylor Wimpey plc (LSE: TWOD) is the largest British based house building and general construction company. ... For other uses, see Tesco (disambiguation). ... Tullow Oil plc (LSE: TLW) is a British-based oil exploration and production business headquartered in London. ... Unilever is a widely listed [2] [3] multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage, that owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ... United Utilities is a British utility company with its headquarters in Warrington which operates mainly in the North West of England. ... 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Yell Group plc (LSE: YELL) is a British directory company, which is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading British quoted companies. ...