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muriel_volestrangler

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24. It may put pressure on Ofcom about the control of BSkyB

Reply to LiberalFighter (Reply #18)

Tue May 1, 2012, 02:56 PM

May 2012

BSkyB is the only British satellite TV operator (there were 2, but Murdoch bought out his competitor - one of the controversial things the previous Tory government allowed him to do). News Corp owns 39% of BSkyB; they wanted to take complete control, and that was what the Jeremy Hunt decision was about (in the news last week; he is the Media Secretary, and seems to have been on Murdoch's side from the start), but after the News of the World scandal broke, they withdrew their application to do that. Now, Ofcom, the non-political national regulator of communications, could decide to examine whether it's appropriate for News Corp to have any significant control of BSkyB at all. See, for instance, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9238846/Ofcom-could-ask-for-News-Corp-to-be-restructured.html . This report may put pressure on them to investigate.

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