2. General Facts
• Sky is a public limited company which was
launched in November 1990
• The headquarters is located in Osterley,
London.
• The Chairman is Nicholas Ferguson and
the CEP is Jeremy Darroch
• Sky employees 22,800 people

3. Sky TV, formally known as Satelitte TV was
set up by Brian Haynes in 1980.
Rupert Murdoch took over the company in
1983
And since then various of BSB’s satellites
have been sold to different companies.

4. Born March 11th
1931
He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global
media holding company News Corporation.
Executive Chairman of News Corp
Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Fox
On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International due to
allegations of phone hacking.

5. Sky television started out as Satellite
Television. This was taken over by
Rupert Murdoch’s News International who
renamed the channel to Sky.
British Satellite Broadcasting is formed
and both companies come into debt and
the companies agree to a 50:50 financial
merger to form British Sky Broadcasting

6. Sky offers channels for particular audiences, for example Sky Sport shows
programmes such as the football, golf, rugby and tennis.
Sky was the first channel to offer a twenty four hour news channel called, Sky
News.
21st
Centaury Fox (a company belonging to Rupert Murdoch) has its own
movie channel FOX HD.
Sky target particular audiences through the use of channels of specific
categories of programme to appeal to a wider audience.

7. • Political Corruption
In 2011 Sky tried to cut the BBC license
fee and reduce the power of their
regulator, Ofcom. Sky was accused for
trying to take over the and control the
news.
• Tax Avoidance
Sky has been part of a group who have
been avoiding tax over the last decade

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