Sentences with phrase «satellite broadcaster»

Saturday evening's Champions League final at London's Wembley Stadium has all the makings of a classic, and UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has introduced an interesting new feature to one of its iPad apps that lets viewers take control of the action.

Comcast's $ 31 billion offer for UK satellite broadcaster Sky just about passes financial muster.

Simultaneously (according to observers) the move would maximize the odds of a successful News Corp. bid for the remaining portion of satellite broadcaster BskyB it didn't already own.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

On Nov. 6, CNBC reported that Walt Disney had held talks with Fox about buying most of its movie and cable TV assets, and its 39 percent stake in European satellite broadcaster Sky.

The Independent Television Commission has told satellite broadcaster BSkyB that it can sell the second of the two Marcopolo satellites which it inherited when Sky merged with BSB in November 1990

His broader experience within the Asia region also includes senior roles with Telstra International, BT, Hutchinson and Asia satellite broadcaster STAR TV, as well as running his own consultancy business.

According to some recent research, about 12 % of SiriusXM users listen to Stern, which means he is probably worth as much as $ 250 million to the satellite broadcaster.

The News of the World's termination is the price Murdoch is willing to pay to halt the accelerating erosion of the British wing of his international empire and to secure full ownership of «the cash machine», the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the leading provider of pay TV.

The tycoon shelved his # 10billion offer for the satellite broadcaster as it became clear that David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband were joining forces in a Commons vote urging him to back off.

Rupert Murdoch and his family sacrificed the tabloid as they fought to salvage their company's attempt to take over BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, after the scandal resulted in growing political pressure for the Government to block the deal.

Without the subsidy, satellite broadcasters will not spend the many millions of pounds a year it costs to simulcast programmes in PAL and MAC.