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MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... having been News Corp finance boss covering its European and Asian operations, alongside James Murdoch. News Corp owns 25% of the business, and cynics might suggest now was a very good time to increase its stake, but Germany has a 30% threshold at which point News Corp would be obliged to make a takeover offer to minority shareholders. Premieres market capitalisation is now at a...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
As storms break around Gordon Brown and David Cameron, politics is being shaped not by the party leaders, but by a complex network of super-powerful press and media players On the evening before Gordon Brown's career-defining speech at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, he met James Murdoch, the 35-year-old who is chief executive in Europe and Asia of his father Rupert Murdoch's...
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MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Now that BSkyBs end-of-year results are out (issued Sept 26), the financial and media community awaits the verdict of the UKs Competition Appeal Tribunal on whether Sky must divest itself of some 10% in ITV, the UKs largest commercial network broadcaster. The Tribunal will issue its findings today, Sept 29, and chairman James Murdoch (on left) and CEO Jeremy Darroch must be tired of...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
TV News: Company must sell stake in broadcaster -- BSkyB, Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. pay TV giant, has lost its appeal to hang on to its controversial 17.9% stake in ITV, Blighty’s biggest commercial web.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Dominant pay-TV group BSkyB should make premium content such as Premier League soccer and movies available to rivals if it wants to avoid a lengthy and expensive battle with regulators, Ofcom said.BSkyB, which has James Murdoch as non-executive chairman, has almost 9 million subscribers and has attracted many of its customers through buying the rights...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... website it would hand down its judgment at 1545 GMT on Monday.BSkyB, with its then Chief Executive James Murdoch in charge, bought the stake in 2006 at 135 pence a share or 940 million pounds in a deal which effectively blocked cable group NTL -- now named Virgin Media (VMED.O: , , ) -- from buying ITV.Analysts believe BSkyB will try to hold on to the stake for as long as possible...
