Posts Tagged "Sky"

Silvio Berlusconi and Vincent Bollore, two of Europe’s most powerful media barons, have agreed a €1.75bn (£1.25bn) pact to create a European rival to Netflix and stronger continental opposition to Sky. The deal is expected to be approved this evening by the directors of Mr Berlusconi’s TV company Mediaset. It will see Mr Bollore’s French media giant Vivendi take full control of Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset Premium. The loss-making pay-TV arm owns rights to top-flight Italian football and competes with Sky Italia

James Murdoch has said that 21st Century Fox is not happy being a partial shareholder in pan-European pay-TV broadcaster Sky

BT will broadcast the next Ashes series from Australia after winning the latest battle in its war with Sky for key television content

BT has escalated its war of words with Sky, saying its rival’s dominance of the pay TV market is bad for consumers and calling on Ofcom to investigate competition in the pay-TV market

If television is dying, British advertisers have yet to hear the message. Spending on TV advertising in the UK will surge 9 per cent this year to £4.2bn, according to forecasts by GroupM

BSkyB, now (again) re-named Sky, has had a remarkable quarter-century – and not only with its pioneering and innovative coverage of British football. It owns and operates the UK’s largest portfolio of pay TV channels across entertainment, sports, movies – and also news.  For the full blog read Flashes&Flames

Sky’s UK operation added 127,000 new customers in the company’s third quarter, a 41% increase year on year and the best rate of growth in 11 years for that three month period.  For the full story read The Guardian

The French media conglomerate Vivendi is looking at a possible skyacquisition of pay-TV group Sky, as one of several options to expand the reach of its own TV group Canal Plus

Sky’s highest customer growth in the UK in nearly a decade helped the satellite broadcaster post a 16% rise in adjusted operating profit in its first results since its £5bn acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland

That deal would give BT the ability to offer customers a “quad play” package of home phone, broadband, TV and mobile

Sky is facing the strongest competition in its 25-year history — with telecoms groups BT and Liberty Global on one flank, and online challengers such as Netflix and Google, on the other. In the past three years, its shares have underperformed all of those rivals

The battle for Premier League football rights has kicked off and fears that Sky will be on the losing side on Monday sparked the heaviest fall in its shares in almost five months

Sky, which will retain an equity stake of 20% and a seat on the board of the business, said the sale will allow the business to focus on its newly-expanded pan-European pay-TV operation

BSkyB has admitted that it has initiated preliminary discussions with 21st Century Fox for acquisition of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia