British Sky Broadcasting

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Abbreviation

BSKYB

Pronunciation

/ˈbrɪtɪʃ skaɪ ˈbrɔdˌkæstɪŋ/

News Corp's British Sky Broadcasting(BSKYB) has since been a pivotal force in the industry.
He subsequently moved to the family business and was widely praised for turning British Sky Broadcasting(BSKYB), the satellite television company, into a broader communications company.
Rupert Murdoch faces a growing threat to his British media business, after the UK communications regulator stepped up its probe into whether British Sky Broadcasting(BSKYB) was a fit and proper owner of a broadcasting licence.
With the British parliament about to come together in an unprecedented move to thwart him, Murdoch this morning accepted the inevitable and called off News Corporations takeover bid for British Sky Broadcasting(BSKYB), which, together with the BBC, dominates British television.
News Corp, his media conglomerate, has spent nine months in political and regulatory purgatory as it tries to buy the 60 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting(BSKYB) it does not already own.