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...It further alleges that Cable was targeted by NGN on account of his ministerial role in the handling of a bid by News Corp to buy shares in BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster....
...Between 2003 and 2008, Rothschild was deputy chair of BSkyB Television, and he was on the international advisory board of US private equity giant Blackstone....
...reports that the News of the World had hacked into the voicemail of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler prompted the closing of the newspaper and forced parent company News Corp to drop its plan to buy BSkyB...
...Parry’s contracts with BSkyB were held through his limited company Alan Parry Productions Limited, where IR35 legislation applied....
...BSkyB’s forced sale of ITV shares in 2010 moved the bar to 17.9 per cent — though the more relevant precedent for Frasers might be Ashley’s free pass from UK regulators in the same year when he built a 28...
...Two previous IR35 appeals involving BSkyB contracts with presenter Neil McCann and former presenter Dave Clark went in HMRC’s favour....
...In 1992, the top clubs then decided to break away from the existing system by forming the Premier League, aided by cash from BSkyB, then Rupert Murdoch’s UK satellite television venture....
...When based in London in the late 1990s he worked on a bid by Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB for Manchester United, the dominant force in English football at the time....
...They married in 2000 and moved through Hong Kong, London and back to New York as James was given command of Star TV, then BSkyB, then 21st Century Fox....
...The new league, flush with cash from satellite TV — the Murdoch-owned BSkyB — proved a hit....
...He had several IT jobs, first at Italian telecoms company Tiscali, then at Capita and BSkyB, but never any formal training....
...Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB needed content. In 1992 he began paying the nascent Premier League £60.8m a season. Today, TV channels worldwide pay £2.8bn a season....
...Mr Murdoch, son of media mogul and Fox executive chairman Rupert Murdoch, has previously served as co-chief operating officer, chairman and CEO of BSkyB, Sky Deutschland, and Sky Italia, the businesses that...
...British Satellite Broadcasting, at the time Britain’s official satellite television provider, until he ran into a bitter conflict with Rupert Murdoch when the media mogul bought BSB and turned it into BSkyB...
...For Sky, sport is now far less integral than it was when Rupert Murdoch was attempting to save BSkyB from bankruptcy in the early 1990s....
...The Australian decision comes as Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox faces scrutiny by UK authorities over whether its £11.7bn bid to buy BSkyB would hand the media mogul too much power over the British media...
...Andrew Griffith, a board member and former CFO of the broadcaster BSkyB, is currently serving as interim chairman....
...Yet a lot has changed since News Corp offered 700p for BSkyB, as it was then called, in June 2010....
...The former bid by News Corp for BSkyB fell apart amid the phone hacking scandal and political and regulatory resistance....
...Just as importantly, he is prepared to absorb operating losses for a long time while building a business, as he did with Fox and BSkyB. It demands deep reserves of cash and self-belief....
...That latter criteria gave the coalition the grounds to intervene in 2010 when News Corp launched a bid for the full ownership of BSkyB....
...BSkyB is one of the stocks central to the insider-trading trial being brought by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority....
...In 2010 the parent company tried to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it did not own....
...BSkyB is one of the stocks central to the trial brought by the Financial Conduct Authority....
...The Financial Conduct Authority had alleged that Dodgson and Mr Harrison passed inside information gleaned from their work on six stocks, including nCipher and BSkyB, to Hind, who then asked Mr Parvizi and...
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