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• Sky To Launch Mobile Betting In UK

  Content Next - 2009-01-06

  UK pay TV giant Sky is readying plans to offer Sky Bet as a mobile service, which will be an extension of the companies existing online, interactive TV and telephone betting services. The service is set to launch later this month. BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) (which owns Sky and Sky...

  Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Adult, Sports, James Quintana Pearce, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group

• A Murdoch Olympics? What Will 2016 Olympics Look Like Online

  Content Next - 2008-12-04

  In UK, BBC may not now win the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics the 2016 Summer Games after the International Olympic Committee turned down the European Broadcasting Union's usually successful bid on behalf of 75 public service broadcasters as too low. Now broadcasters will have to bid for...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, iTV, European Broadcasting Union, Broadcaster, Games, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Countries, UK & Europe, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media, TV, Patrick Smith, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group

• Telefonica and Vivendi set to bid for Digital Plus - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-24

  Telefonica and Vivendi are are joining forces to bid for Prisa's Digital Plus in an attempt to ease competition concerns, reports the Financial Times citing "people close to process". The Spanish telco and the French media conglomerate have held talks about a joint approach, but have yet to submit...

  Tags: Antitrust, Vivendi Universal, Telefonica, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, BSkyB, Grupo Prisa, Mediaset, Sogecable SA, Vivendi, Francesco Canepa

• Championship Gaming Series Folds

  Content Next - 2008-11-19

  DirecTV-backed professional videogaming league Championship Gaming Series CGS has folded. Launched in January 2007, CGS started with six franchises in the U.S. (in cities like LA, NY and Dallas), and expanded internationally this year. Its matches were picked up by DirecTV (NYSE: DTV), BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Star, and...

  Tags: DirecTV, New York Stock Exchange, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Games, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tameka Kee, Companies, Entertainment, Gaming, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group, DirecTV Group Inc.

• Sky partners with 3 on mobile TV

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-19

  Sky has signed a mobile TV deal with UK operator 3. The agreement adds to similar deals with Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile and leaves O2 as the only major UK operator not to distribute Sky TV content. Through the deal,...

  Tags: Mobile, Mobile TV, U.K., TV, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew McDonald, BSkyB, Hutchison 3G UK Limited, O2, Orange, Vodafone Group Plc

• Sky in web video deal with The Times

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-18

  Sky is partnering with The Times to produce co-branded video news to be published on Times Online and skynews.com. Videos will focus on business as well as home and foreign news and will combine analysis by The Times and Sunday Times commentators with Sky News footage. ...

  Tags: Partnership, Internet Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Business Structures, Marketing, Finance, Francesco Canepa, BSkyB, News Corporation, The Times Group

• BSkyB TV Comes To 3 UK, Data Tariff Required

  Content Next - 2008-11-18

  BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit is bringing the channels...

  Tags: Mobile, Tariff, TV, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., Satcaster, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Robert Andrews, Companies, Operators, 3 UK, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Video, Mobile TV, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group, News Corp.

• James Murdoch and Willy Wonka On Crowdsourcing

  - 2007-04-19

  In case you missed it, the Financial Times had a great column on James Murdoch, CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and son of Rupert Murdoch, and how he used a type of one-on-one crowdsourcing last month. Murdoch invited groups of British Sky Broadcasting customers to his office...

  Tags: Joseph De Avila, Rupert Murdoch, BSkyB, Crowdsourcing

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• Sky prepares to take television into the third dimension Satellite

  - 2008-12-21

  I'VE seen the future - and it required donning a set of geeky, blackrimmed Jarvis Cocker-style glasses. But these specs are no fashion statement. They are the key to another dimension: a crucial part of the kit Sky television engineers are using to take 3D pictures out...

• Main Movers

  - 2008-11-05

  UP Kazakhmys 397.25p (up 59.5p, 17.62 per cent) Supplements earlier gains as investors maintain search for bargains. UP Wood Group 282p (up 41.75p, 17.38 per cent) Oil prices rise as dollar falls against the euro. UP Vedanta Resources 999.5p (up 87.5p, 9.59...

• British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC: 1st Quarter Results

  - 2008-10-31

  BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLC Interim Management Statement and Results for the three months ended 30 September 2008 Strong customer and product growth; operating profit up by 21%(1)...

• Main Movers

  - 2008-10-28

  M Antofagasta 300p (up 23.5p, 8.5 per cent) Bucks sector trend after positive comment from Citigroup. M British Sky Broadcasting 352p (up 23p, 6.99 per cent) Bargain hunting before update, due at the end of this week. M Stagecoch 196.4p (up 9p, 4.8 per...

• Main Movers

  - 2008-10-24

  M Legal & General 71p (up 3.8p, 5.65 per cent) Early gains on Wall Street prompt sector-wide rally. M Royal Dutch Shell 1,551p (up 77p, 5.22 per cent) World oil prices rise in advance of Opec meeting. M Vodafone 108p (up 5p, 4.85 per...

• Main Movers

  - 2008-10-23

  M Bellway 467p (up 19.5p, 4.36 per cent) Hopes of a reduction in interest rates; interbank lending rates ease. M Punch Taverns 158p (up 8p, 5.33 per cent) Hedge funds close short positions, traders say. M Go-Ahead 1,533p (up 26p, 1.73 per cent) Transport...

• It's a huge injustice that we have to sell ITV stake, says Murdoch

  - 2008-10-18

  Bancroft opera singer elected to News Corp board The ruling that British Sky Broadcasting must sell down its stake in ITV was a "huge injustice", Rupert Murdoch said yesterday. The chairman of BSkyB's parent company, News Corporation, lashed out at last...

• BSkyB to Deploy ASSIA's DSL Expresse® Product

  - 2008-10-15

  REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ASSIA announced today that it has reached agreement with British Sky Broadcasting (Sky, http://www.sky.com/), the UK's fastest-growing broadband provider, to deploy ASSIA's DSL Expresse Dynamic Spectrum Management platform in its DSL network. The deployment decision follows a trial of DSL Expresse in...

• BSkyB ordered to sell down share of ITV

  - 2008-09-30

  Business News In Brief BROADCASTING The pay-TV group British Sky Broadcasting BSkyB has been ordered to sell down its 17.9 per cent stake in the broadcaster ITV to at least below 7.5 per cent after losing its appeal yesterday to keep hold of the shareholding. Further...

• BSkyB results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2008

  - 2008-07-31

  BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLCResults for the twelve months ended 30 June 2008Strong operational and financial performanceOperational performance for the quarter: On track, churn reduces to 9.8%- Net customer growth in the quarter of 92,000 to 8.980 million - New customer additions of 310,000 - Reduction in churn...

• SLT to acquire 75 percent of SKY Network.(SRI LANKA)(Sri Lanka Telecom acquires British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Sky Networks)(Brief article)

  - 2008-06-01

  Sri Lanka Telecom SLT is planning to acquire 75 percent of SKY Network, which owns spectrum pertaining to WiMAX services. SLT said that it would pay $1 million for buying a dominant stake in the firm, which is a division of Europe's Lycatel Group. This partnership with...

• News Corporation Names Tom Mockridge Chief Executive, European Television

  - 2008-05-12

  LONDON -- News Corporation announced today that Tom Mockridge, Chief Executive of Sky Italia, has been appointed to the additional role of Chief Executive, European Television. In this new role, Mr. Mockridge will directly oversee the company's television operations in Europe, outside the UK. These include Sky Italia,...