As a regular follower of moneyam I know this bulletin board loves small shares but please consider BSkyB as it will launch a free-to-air service later this year, which will compete with Freeview. For a one off 150 you will be able to gain access to alomst 200 digital channels and have access to pay per view events with no monthly subscription. 27% of the population cannot get Freeview due to weak transmission and with only 43% population with sattelite or cable there is massive growth potential. (Shares June2004)
BSkyB"s recent figures showed subscriber numbers were 19000 down on expectations of 100000 for the last 3 months, but pre tax profits quadrupled. Expenditure of around 450m will be needed in the next 4 years to support growth.
At the current price of 485p on a PE of 16 the shares are sitting near their yearly low, I recently bought 514p and would aprreciate other peoples views, has this recent sell off been overdone ?

Why ask us when you tell us you know just about everything? -):

Every thing can be bought for a price.

Might be in your world, thankfully not all of us are.

stan i was just asking the question have MPs taken cash has the question been put to any one .i do not no this answer .

but do no that the deal will go ahead .

David Cameron has plenty of the BROWN sauce on his pants after the last episode, too many wrongs do not make it right, it will be wrong is is allowed to be approved


Decision on Murdoch's bid for BSkyB likely to be delayed

A decision on whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will be allowed to buy all shares in British Sky Broadcasting is likely to be delayed for some weeks.

Following the revelation of scandals at The News of the World, which resulted in a decision to close the newspaper, the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has received a large number of submissions commenting on the proposal.

News Corporation owns 39.1% and has offered 700p a share for all those that it does not possess.

Mr Hunt had indicated that he was likely to approve this provided Sky News was spun off into a different company.

But the latest submissions will take some time to assess and Prime Minister, David Cameron, said that a decision may take some time.

"Calm down dear" needs some of that now ....

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is arrested by police investigating phone hacking as the PM details two inquiries into the scandal.


Rusbridger: 'I warned David Cameron over Coulson link'

News Corporation withdrawing the bid for BSkyB

Old news! :-)

Rebekah Brooks Murdoch and his slimy son are due to appear before
next Tuesday Select CommitteeBrooks has already admitted knowing about payments to police under her watchwhich I believe was later denied and it is also alleged James Murdoch was involved authorising payments to silence Gordon Taylor after his phone was hackedI cant see the two Murdoch's turning upthey wont have their usual unfair advantage high ranking Police officers and Politicians regularly socialised free of charge with the slim balls organisation so the Police investigation and The News International internal inquiry looks sensible lol

A couple of good points.. Hedge funds have been severely burnt on Sky and Vince Cablewho was again laughed at but has yet again come out of this as the clever guyall IMO

Agreed.

There is a bounce in Vince's step.

In a statement of the blindingly obvious, Panmure Gordon says that the probability of a successful takeover by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB has been reduced to zero.

Panmure, which previously thought there was a 10% chance of the deal going ahead, places its target price on BSkyB under review, following yesterdays news that NewsCorp, which publishes the Sun and the Times, has withdrawn its bid for the satellite broadcaster.

As the market now has certainty on the outcome, we would expect the shares to rally, at least in the short term., Panmure said, adding that it is now looking into the fundamentals in more detail.

Panmure has a hold/special situations recommendation on BSkyB.

BSkyB will fall further as investigations gets along...

Cameron in crisis: Now FOUR police chiefs face inquiry as PM is forced to call emergency session on phone hacking

John Yates and Sir Paul Stephenson face complaints commission inquiry

Two former senior officers at the Met will also be investigated by IPCC

PM announces delay in Parliament summer break to answer MPs' questions

Miliband: Cameron is hamstrung over connections to Coulson and Brooks

Cressida Dick will take over from John Yates as Assistant Commissioner
Home Secretary announces Parliamentary review of police corruption

News Corp shares drop by 4.3% in New York and 7.6% in Sydney

Was Coulson giving information to Cameron and the tory party about labour party leaders before the last election?

There were a large amount of "government" leaks in the lead up to the last election.

Were the leaks due to phone hacking?

Excellent Panorama just finished on BBC - catch it if you can.

Birds of a feather flock together
NEWS CORPORATION - MURDERER/MURDOCH - DIRTY AFFAIR

Resignation after resignation latest .........

Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has
resigned as the phone-hacking scandal fall-out continues.

THE LIST
Andy Coulson
Glenn Mulcaire
Rebekah Brooks
Sir Paul Stephenson
John Yates

NEXT
.....

Note : My campaign to expose this mafia style, have been on for a few years now,
using this nickname MURDERER/MURDOCH ( it rhymes ).

Rupert Murdoch and his son on the hot chair this afternoon...

BBC News Clip where Sean Hoare tells Panorama/New York Times that phone hacking was endemic at NoW:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14195574

Hoare also said in the same interview that the then NoW editor Andy Coulson had asked him to hack phones - something Mr Coulson has denied.

Thinks.....

Q. And if this is/was true, whose phones did Coulson want hacking?
A. Hmmm? The political opposition?

Thinks.....

Oh dear, Mr Cameron!!!!

Here's a link to the full Panorama programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012y1tv

From Ladbrokes:

Only Chris Huhne (2/1) and Andrew Lansley (6/1) are deemed more likely now to quit next leaving the PM joint third favourite with Kenneth Clarke (also 8/1).

Alex Donohue of Ladbrokes said: "This bears all the hallmarks of a massive public gamble. People up and down the land are queueing out of the door of our shops to back the PM to walk."

Ladbrokes latest betting:

Next Cabinet Member to leave

Dead Heat Rules apply if more than one leave on same day

Chris Huhne - 2/1
Andrew Lansley - 6/1
Kenneth Clarke - 8/1
David Cameron - 8/1
Vince Cable - 10/1
Cheryl Gillan - 10/1

On the other hand, here is The Economist's take:
(Tyler Durden on 07/18/2011)

It is wrong to argue, as do some Labour MPs, some bloggers and tonight's edition of BBC Newsnight, that David Cameron logically might have to resign as prime minister, now that Britain's most senior police officer, Sir Paul Stephenson, has had to quit.

The argument rests on a superficially neat piece of symmetry. Sir Paul, until this weekend Commissioner of the Metropolitan police, had to resign after it emerged that his force had employed the former deputy editor of the News of the World, Neil Wallis, as a PR consultant. In contrast, Mr Cameron hired Mr Wallis's boss, the ex-NotW editor Andy Coulson as his PR chief, and yet he is still in his job as prime minister. "Spot the Difference", grumbled the Newsnight political editor Michael Crick, who had earlier asked the Tory mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to explain the same contrast at a press conference this afternoon, reducing the normally loquacious Mr Johnson to stammering and flannelling.

Ex-commissioner Stephenson clearly sees things the same way, aiming a clear barb at Downing Street in his resignation statement, when he noted that his ex-tabloid helper had never had to resign, unlike the prime minister's ex-tabloid helper, Mr Coulson (who stood down as editor of the NoTW in 2007 after the jailing of his royal correspondent and a private investigator over phone-hacking, even though he said he knew nothing about it).

But the problem was not so much that Neil Wallis was given a two day a month contract at Scotland Yard between 2009 and 2010, advising senior officers on PR strategy. The problem is that more recently, even after the police came under huge pressure for their astonishingly lackadaisical approach to the phone-hacking scandal at the NotW, senior officers did not think it appropriate to tell anyone in government, let alone the public, that they had been paying a former deputy editor of the same paper for strategic press advice.

This though that advice was being given at the very same time, in 2009, when Scotland Yard was deciding not to reopen the hacking investigation, and was poo-pooing the excellent reporting of the scandal by papers like the Guardian. In the end, the police only alerted the government last week, on the day that Mr Wallis was arrested on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking, as part of the current police probe, known as Operation Weeting.

If it had only just emerged that David Cameron had been secretly taking paid advice from Andy Coulson, the prime minister would also be in astonishing trouble right now. As it is, Mr Coulson's appointment (which was a colossal mistake, as I have said many times) was a matter of public record. That makes a very big difference.

About time the MURDERERS were send back to the " PENAL COLONY " (Australia )
were they belong, they can take the WITCH ( Rebekah Brooks ) with them,
almost sure both have been bedding her ( she was useless as a journalist
and worse as an editor) unless was for a SEX scandal.