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Darroch replaces Murdoch on Sky Deutschland board

Sky Deutschland has appointed Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch as the new chairman of its supervisory board, replacing James Murdoch who stepped down from the role at the firm’s AGM yesterday. Murdoch, who retains a seat on the Sky Deutschland board, gave up the post amid mounting pressure about his position on the board of Sky […]

Sky Deutschland launches Star Wars channel

Sky Deutschland, the German arm of UK-Italian-German pay TV operator Sky, has launched a dedicated Star Wars channel. Sky Star Wars HD will show the six Star Wars movies around the clock. The launch of the special channel comes ahead of the Christmas period and ahead of the release of The Force Awakens, the next […]

BSkyB rebrands as Euro merger completes

BSkyB has completed the takeovers of its European pay TV cousins, and subsequently rebranded its corporate identity. The UK-based satellite TV giant company will now be known simply as Sky after dropping the full title British Sky Broadcasting, and its stock exchange ticker will change to SKY from BSY tomorrow as a result. Sky has […]

Murdoch talks Shine/Endemol, Sky Europe in Cannes

James Murdoch spoke publicly about the Shine/Endemol merger yesterday at MIPCOM. Referring to the deal, which was announced last week, the 21st Century Fox COO said that the while the combined production and distribution business will benefit from enormous scale, the parent company does not want to “over-synergise”. “We want to create a larger canvas for […]

Sky Deutschland says it will add 450,000 subs

Pay TV operator Sky Deutschland expects to gain between 400,000 and 450,000 subscribers and full-year EBITDA in the range of €80 million to €110 million (US$107 million to US$ 147 million) in the new financial year after posting strong numbers for the quarter to June. Sky increased its overall direct subscribers by 82,000 in the […]

Liberty pays £481m for 6.4% stake in ITV

Liberty Global has bought a 6.4% stake in UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV for £481 million (US$822.9 million). Announcing the deal this morning, Liberty said it had acquired the 259.8 million ITV shares from BSkyB at £1.85 per share. Sky said it intends to use the proceeds for “general corporate purposes”, though analysts have suggested it […]

Sky orders more Alan Partridge comedy

Sky Atlantic has commissioned a new season of Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters and a one-off special featuring Steve Coogan’s comic character. Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters 2 will run to six half-hour episodes and be produced by UK indie Baby Cow Productions. The special, in which Partridge will “be bringing Sky customers a hard-hitting […]

Sky records surprise uptick in TV customers

UK pay TV operator BSkyB said that it added 74,000 new TV customers in the three months ending March 31, more than double the growth that it experienced in the same quarter last year. Announcing its fiscal third quarter results, Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch said that Sky had a strong quarter and “continued to grow […]

Sky Go and Now TV to join PS4

Sky said it is preparing to launch its Sky Go on-demand service and Now TV OTT offering on PlayStation 4 consoles. Now TV will be available on the console from the summer, with Sky Go to follow later this year. Announcing the news, on the same day that Sky released its fiscal third quarter results, […]

BBC and Sky settle retransmission fee dispute

The BBC and Sky have ended a long-running dispute about retransmission fees, agreeing that the public service broadcaster will no longer have to pay to have its services carried on Sky. The agreement will see the BBC’s existing charges to the satellite operator for platform services drop from £4.5 million per-year “to zero,” following government […]

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