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[edit] BSkyB is not a subsidiary of NewsCorp
According to the BSkyB company report (see [1]), BSkyB Holdco Inc. is a subsidiary company of News Corporation, but "Holdco" only owns 35% of British Sky Broadcasting Group. This means that British Sky Broadcasting Group plc. is itself not a subsidiary of News Corporation. Marknew 14:14, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
That's not true. A company can be purchased through a number of means, while the parent company controls less than 50% of common stock. Preferred stock is the easy way; BSkyB might have special voting rights attached to its preferred stock. Another possibility (the most likely in my opinion) is that they purchased more than 50%, absording BSkyB, and then sold stock. Also, you must understand that it is possible that 35% is an interest in which no coalition can really form to beat it in voting decisions.--User:naryathegreat | (talk) 17:04, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
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- Yes, but it isn't a subsidiary. It is an associate. I have changed the article.
[edit] Sport and movies
This article needs to explain the role of the above as key drivers of Sky's business, but as I don't even have a television, I am not qualified to write about that.
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- Yeah right, that's what they all say to the TV Licence people LOL Smoothy 16:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] HomeChoice
BSkyB has not bought HomeChoice although it is rumoured to be considering a bid.--Barracg 11:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Home choice is now Tiscali t.v.
[edit] SKY around the world
The SKY TV has subsidiaries in various parts of the world.. example: www.sky.tv.br is good idea quote this?
This is not the case.
These are subsidiaries of News corp and not BskyB. When News corp brought there stake in Bskyb they started satilite tv sirvices such as Sky Itali.
[edit] Logo Images
Someone semms to have Removed or edited them nuff said 909RER 15:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
- They added them all as blank. I've removed them for now. --Dean Earley 19:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV
This reads like an advert, or at least glosses over the large scale criticism that it is destroying sport ... Duke toaster 17:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Why?
Why does it say butt so much?
Probably some vandal.
[edit] Concering comments added re Virgin Media and BSkyB spat...
The 'doubted the value' comment comes from a direct mail flyer BSkyB sent out in the UK
The first few line of this read :
"Virgin Media appears to have doubted the value of the TV you love and has dropped Sky One,Sky news and Sky Sports News..."
and continues with the 68% claims already mentioned in the article.
The print flyer does not seem to mention the contract row (which is to be expected) ShakespeareFan00 13:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
really badly written article, virgin cant take sky to court for witholding the channels, as they decided not to pay the price sky wanted wether this was a fair price is really the issue
[edit] This piece of crap article doesn't even have a lead sentence saying what BSkyB is...
It jumps straight into financial and audience figures (not really lead material at all), doesn't even tell us that BSkyB is a broadcaster or any of it's history. WP:LEAD should anybody wish to work on it. (Pse don't tell me to fix it, I can't do everything and sometimes it's nice to just read articles... although invariably not so nice as they're generally as crap as this one or worse!) --kingboyk (talk) 23:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed page
I am proposing a "History of Sky TV (or BSky/Sky Digital etc) idents", much like the BBC page. It would have examples of Sky's channels, corporate looks of the time etc. Your thoughts? Malpass93 (talk) 20:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
