Murdoch Trying to Buy Sky TV
News Corp is in hot pursuit of British Sky Broadcasting, offering it $11.5 billion for the 61% of the British pay channel it doesn’t already own, according to the company’s own Wall Street Journal ....
View ArticleBrits OK Murdoch Mega TV Deal
The British government has given the green light to Rupert Murdoch's biggest deal in the nation for decades. Murdoch's News Corp will be allowed to increase its stake in pay-TV giant British Sky...
View ArticleNews Corp Drops BSkyB Bid
Rupert Murdoch's empire won't be expanding anytime soon: News Corp has announced it will abandon its bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting. President and COO Chase Carey cited the...
View ArticleCameron: OK, I Shouldn't Have Hired Coulson
David Cameron gave a defiant speech before parliament today, in which he offered a kinda-sorta mea culpa for hiring ex- News of the World executive Andy Coulson. “With 20-20 hindsight and all that has...
View ArticleJames Murdoch to Stay BSkyB Chairman
James Murdoch will keep his job as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting thanks to a unanimous decision by the company’s board, an insider tells Bloomberg . His position had been questioned after former...
View ArticleBSkyB Votes to Keep James Murdoch
Looks like the News of the World phone hacking scandal won't cost James Murdoch his spot as chairman of BSkyB. Murdoch sailed through a shareholder vote today, with 81.24% supporting him and 18.76%...
View ArticleJames Murdoch Stepping Down From BSkyB
Media exec James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal , is stepping down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, the Sky News channel reported today. Sky,...
View ArticleMurdoch 'Not Fit' to Lead News Corp: UK Lawmakers
A group of British lawmakers has concluded that Rupert Murdoch is not fit to lead his own media empire: Parliament's Culture, Media, and Sport Committee released a report the AP calls "scathing,"...
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