Channels Pulling Off Sky?
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With Advertisers pulling ads off NOTW and maybe other NI things,Do you think some channels could,I think know channel would.
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Seriously though I don't think any channels will be removed.
The BBC and many others only pay Sky for their EPG positions. Carriage on the satellite platform is not controlled by Sky.
News International aren't Sky shareholders, it's News Corp that own 39%.
No, why would they? What has Sky got to do with NOTW other than News Corp owning a minority portion of Sky.
No, different companies so why would they?
They have little to do with it at the moment because Murdoch is only a 40% shareholder. If the takeover happens then it definitely has something to do with Sky because the person mostly responsible for the scandal will be in charge of Sky!
Lets hope all the other papers that are reporting all this are squeaky clean !
The whole point of closing the paper is so it does not have a negative impact on other brands.
It was losing money hand over fist, the Sun & NOtW massive proffits were used to keep Sky operating, until Sky managed to manoeuvre Premier League football rights. Murdoch then floated shares for BSkyB and after receiving £m's for its sale and some years later, now wants to regain control.
He owned all of sky from 1984-1990
This seems to be something that is going over the heads of some
Which left News Corp with 50% of the shares in BSKYB and the former BSB shareholders with 50%.
Then shares were sold to finance expansion at Sky which diluted News Corp's holding to 39% - leaving them a minority shareholder although the largest single shareholder.
And even if the PTB agree to News Corp obtaining the remaining 61% an agreement would still have to be reached with the other shareholders and News Corp's earlier offer was rejected.
Which channel do you think will?
Personally I think a channel would be stupid to, But I also have a list of channels I wouldn't mind going away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlGQPYJGu0
I disagree on that one because Sky, News International and News Corporation are all closely linked - see below:
It's getting to the point where anything Murdoch related now has untouchable pariah status and it's almost certain that former (and perhaps some current) Murdoch employees will be put on trial. Not only that, more nasty revelations will be revealed in due course: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012326/News-World-phone-hacking-Will-Rebekah-Brooks-FINALLY-go.html?ITO=1490
"Worse revelations are yet to come and you will understand in a year why we closed News of the World"
Faced with all that, I can see more advertisers deciding not to place adverts with all Murdoch enterprises (some are already boycotting all News International newspapers) and it might very well be that a few channels might decide to defect from Sky and go free to air/Freesat.
One thing's for certain; this appalling scandal will continue over the next few months and there'll almost certainly be more very bad headlines for Murdoch.
So apart from James Murdoch being the Non-executive Chairman of BSkyB (which in reality is a non-job) what other links are there?
Also, all the News Corp representation on BSkyB's board are non-executive so they have no part in the actual running of the company.
Do you honestly believe what you just wrote, Sky was murdoch's baby he started it , do you think he has no say in the day to day running of his baby.
I am frankly shocked that you are apparently attempting to defend, and divert attention from, the immoral, callous, illegal and unpatriotic (hacking into the mobiles of the relatives of fallen soldiers) activities of the Murdoch Empire. :eek:
Let's get some facts straight right now:
1. From 2003 to 2007, James Murdoch was Chief Executive Officer of BSkyB;
2. James Murdoch, as head of News Corporation Europe, will become the de facto head of all UK BSkyB operations in the event that News Corporation controls 100% of all BSkyB shares;
3. James Murdoch has already publicly admitted conduct that fell woefully short of best corporate practice when he signed off the "hush money" cheques to silence victims of the illegal phone hacking scams;
4. News Corporation, headed by one James Murdoch in Europe, is already the single largest Sky shareholder with 39% of BSkyB shares.
Therefore, the ties are already there and News Corporation in general and James Murdoch in particular should be put through Ofcom's "fitness" test at the earlest practicable opportunity which will presumably be after Murdoch employees and contractors have been sentenced for any illegal wrongdoings.