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 ?

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.

Latest

So far 10 ex employers of News Corporation were working for the Metropolitan police.

How will you call that?

Spionage
moles
.....

The "GREEDY" was attacked with a plate of "SHAVING FOAM"

last minute to minute till the accident

1711: Iain Watson Political correspondent, BBC News Police say they've arrested a man following the attack on Rupert Murdoch. According to one of the committee members Paul Farrelly, the assailant made for Rupert Murdoch with what appeared to be a paper plate with shaving foam on it, in the form of a custard pie. The committee room corridor has been sealed off by police.

1709: The session is restarted after 15 minutes. Tory MP Louise Mensch continues her questioning. She praises Mr Murdoch's "immense guts" for facing the committee.


1708: Labour MP Chris Bryant, who is attending the hearing, tells the BBC the plate of shaving foam was shoved in Rupert Murdoch's face. He says it is a "despicable" thing to do, especially to a man of more than 80 years of age.

1701: James Murdoch looked shocked that security staff had failed to protect his father properly, Nick Robinson says.

1701: Nick Robinson says Rupert Murdoch's wife was "up like a shot" to defend her husband.

1659: BBC political editor Nick Robinson says Rupert Murdoch was apparently hit in the face with a plate of shaving foam by a man shouting: "Greedy."

1657: A man with white substance - possibly paint - on his face has been taken away by police following the incident.

1656: Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi stood up and appeared to strike somebody in defence of her husband.

1655: Rupert Murdoch appears to have been attacked by somebody in the public gallery.

1654: The sitting is suspended for 10 minutes - after some kind of disturbance.

1653: Mr Murdoch tells MPs how the Brown and Murdoch children used to play together and how their wives "struck up a great friendship". He thought the former PM had "great values". He hopes the relationship can be rebuilt in the future, adds Mr Murdoch.

1651: Rupert Murdoch says he is "sorry" that he no longer has a friendship with Gordon Brown - who launched a scathing attack on News International last week in the Commons.

1649: Damian Collins asks if Rupert Murdoch has a "cultural problem" with advisers saying what he wants to hear. The media magnate says it is up to him to "see through" people trying to please him.

1645: Rupert Murdoch says that when the Daily Telegraph bought stolen documents on MPs' expenses it caused a huge outcry. He adds that Singapore is the cleanest society in the world, as every minister is paid at least one million dollars a year and has no temptation to transgress. "Good luck in selling that one," Damian Collins replies.

have just been reading about TOM WATSON in my view he is not fit to ask anyone
any questions look at what he claimed for take a look . he is like stevenson he gets 12k gift and says if a bobbie ges a free meal he is breaking the law

Didn't he have any Wisteria, or did he pay for his private taxi rides?

no we did and a lot more has well.
go in to is history he should not judge any one

Watch 'How Murdoch Run Britain' on Channel 4 and see how Murdoch influence Tony Blair and Cameron on various affairs like going to war in Iraq, EU referendum and how News International running a protection racket!

Murdoch seems to be running Britain from behind the scenes. And he always enter No. 10 through the back door!Wonder why, eh???

Now tell us something we don't know.

stan . our grandchildren will hate us for allowing the goverments to leave them with no country to call theirs.

What do u mean... it will be called Murdochville. lol.

no pakistan uk. and it will be a dirty place by then

HCL technologies, an Indian-based IT firm that manages the companys computer systems, said yesterday that it had been asked to dispose of internal emails on nine occasions between April 2010 and July 2011.

The disclosure follows claims by Tom Watson, the Labour MP who has campaigned on hacking, that there had been an attempt to destroy data at the HCL storage facility in Chennai in apparent efforts to cover up the scale of the phone hacking scandal. The company said it did not know of anything abnormal, untoward or inconsistent behind the requests to delete them.

Keith Vaz, the chairman of the home affairs select committee, said he was surprised by the letter and said the MPs would continue questioning the company about its role in the hacking scandal.

The fact that so many emails have been deleted at the request of News International raises a number of further questions which we will continue to probe the company about, he said.

In a letter, sent on behalf of HCL by Stuart Benson, a lawyer, the company disclosed that it had been involved in discussions about deleting emails nine times since April last year. It said: It is of course entirely for News International, the police and your committee as to whether there was any other agenda or subtext when issues of deletion arose, and that is a matter on which my client cannot comment and something which you will no doubt explore direct with News International.

UPDATE: European Court Ruling Could Transform TV Soccer Rights

Today : Tuesday 4 October 2011


Europe's highest court Tuesday ruled that the way lucrative soccer television rights are currently handed out in the EU is against single market rules, a move that has financial implications for broadcasters and Europe's major soccer leagues and could change the way the rights are sold across the world.

The European Court of Justice said the current system whereby leagues hand out TV rights on a country-by-country basis and prohibits broadcasting those matches across borders was incompatible with the single market and competition law.

"A system of exclusive licences is also contrary to European Union competition law if the licence agreements prohibit the supply of decoder cards to television viewers who wish to watch the broadcasts outside the Member State for which the licence is granted," the European Court of Justice said Tuesday in a statement.

The court ruling follows a case brought against Karen Murphy, a pub landlady in Portsmouth, England, who showed Premier League soccer matches shown on a Greek TV station using a legitimately-purchased Greek decoder, instead of using a more expensive decoder from British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (BSY.LN), which holds nearly all the rights to show live premier league matches in the U.K.

The ECJ is ruling after questions were referred to it by the UK's High Court, which needed advice on the EU law aspects of two similar cases; a civil case between the FA Premier League and QC Leisure, which supplied the decoder card, and a criminal case against pub owner Karen Murphy.

The Premier League currently has a three-year deal with British broadcasters worth some $3 billion. It also has other deals in other EU countries, but the U.K. broadcasters pay more than European rivals for their rights. BskyB has the rights to show nearly all live matches in the U.K., while other broadcasters show highlights or delayed matches.

In its ruling, the ECJ said that broadcasters have no right to prohibit the use of foreign decoder cards.

"A prohibition on using foreign decoder cards would go beyond what is necessary to ensure appropriate remuneration for the holders of the rights concerned," the statement said.

BSkyB wasn't immediately available for comment.

Although BSkyB pays a lot for the rights to show Premier League matches live exclusively, the popularity of the game in the U.K. has been a key driver of the company's rapid rise to become the country's biggest pay-TV company.

"Payment by the television stations of a premium in order to ensure themselves absolute territorial exclusivity goes beyond what is necessary to ensure the right holders appropriate remuneration, because such a practice may result in artificial price differences between the partitioned national markets," the ECJ said in a statement.

"Such partitioning and such an artificial price difference are irreconcilable with the fundamental aim of the Treaty, which is completion of the internal market."

The court also ruled that the actual soccer matches are not subject to copyright.

The premier league music, recorded films of highlights, and various graphics can be regarded as 'works' and are therefore protected by copyright, the court said, but "by contrast, the matches themselves are not works enjoying such protection."

News Corp. (NWS) holds a 39.1% stake in BSkyB. It also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of this newswire and The Wall Street Journal.

-By Frances Robinson, Dow Jones Newswires; +32 2 741 1486; frances.robinson@dowjones.com

Great result for Mrs Murphy. This could get interesting, bet Andy Grays future employment prospects just got better :O)

19/10 Q1 2012 results
16/11 Full year Ex - Divi date proposed
29/11 AGM

Maybe worth a punt?

Competition Commission U-turn over films on TV may ignite BSkyB share price

Final Results


Record financial performance


· Revenue up 4.5% to £6.791 billion on a like-for-like basis1

· Record adjusted operating profit of £1.223 billion, up 14% with continued margin expansion to reach 18.0%, the highest level for six years

· Adjusted basic EPS up 22% to 50.8 pence

· Full year dividend increased by 9% to 25.4 pence per share

· Additional £500 million capital return to shareholders via share buy-back
Consistent and strong operational growth

· Total products increase by 12% to reach 28.4 million

· 10.6 million customers choose Sky, up 312,000 on the prior year

· Strong customer loyalty with churn of 9.9% in the quarter

· Four million customers choose Sky Broadband for great quality and value

· Largest and fastest growing triple play customer base in Britain at 3.4 million, up 21%

Delivering the best experience for customers

· Breadth of sports coverage continues with new rights renewals for Spanish football, British and Irish Lions rugby and Premier League

· Our second brand, NOW TV, launched on 17 July to give millions of people easy, instant access to Sky content

· Bringing a full suite of Sky services to Irish customers with the launch of Sky Broadband and Talk later this year

· Extending Sky Go with eight kids' channels now available including Disney and Nickelodeon; access to 32 live channels and a broad range of on demand content

· Free-to-air catch-up service to launch in the autumn to include BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and Demand 5; Sky Anytime+ surpasses one million homes, up 57% on last quarter

Sky's movie strength cleared by Competition Commission

Sky's strong position in the pay-TV movie market "does not adversely affect competition", the Competition Commission has confirmed.

British Sky Broadcasting hit a new 52-week high this week of 775p. It currently stands a few pence down from that on 760p, which is 24% up on the share price's low point of 614p almost exactly a year ago.

Much of that was driven by July's strong annual results, which showed a 16% rise in operating profit and a 21% boost to earnings per share (eps), from revenues that were 3% up on the previous year. The dividend was lifted by 9% to 25.4p per share. Current forecasts suggest a payout of 3.6% next year, with the shares on a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 13.5.