News International and BSkyB

Or as someone on Boing Boing translated it:
(put as a spoiler because it has a big rude word!)

Sky reporting that Rebekah Brooks has been arrested.

Is this contribution from David Banks on BBC news being done via Skype webcam or similar?

As are (now) the BBC News Channel.

I think it will definitely impact on her Tuesday appearance in front of the Commons Select Committee.

Fox News is fair and balanced as always.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/the-most-incredible-thing-fox-news-has-ever-done/242037/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9gOSsvLIO4&feature=player_embedded

Because, like so many things, there is a difference between the company name and the brand : cf NatWest, ASDA, TFL etc.

I know that, there is a difference though. Natwest and Asda are wholey owned subsidiaries of multi-national companies. BSkyB and Sky are one and the same

According to Wiki, Sky is British Sky Broadcasting Ltd, a subsidiary of BSkyB PLC.

Subsidiaries of BSkyB PLC are:-


British Sky Broadcasting Ltd
Operating company for the Sky pay-television service.

Sky Subscriber Services Ltd
The original Sky Television plc, now a holding company

Sports Internet Group Ltd
Sports content and online betting services.

British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings Ltd
Interactive television services, formerly an alliance of BSkyB, BT Group, HSBC and ****.

Mykindaplace.com
Being both an agency and a media owner, run many successful sites. – Now defunct

Aura Sports Ltd
Media Sales Agency, sells advertising on the majority of premiership football club websites, as well as other major sports.

Aura Play Ltd
Another Media Sales Agency, sells advertising across a number of websites in the music and entertainment sector.

Sky Ireland
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in the Republic of Ireland.

Living TV Group
A British television content arm, operating a number of channels.

Yes, all big companies have several legal entities for organisational, regulatory and accounting reasons, but in BSkyB's case they all trade to the public as 'Sky'. It's not the same as RBS who trade as RBS, Natwest, Ulster Bank etc. or something like Arcadia who have Burton, TopShop, Evans etc

Either way it's irrelevant to my original point - there's no reason to keep the clunky name now that BSB's shareholders are out of the picture

Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned as MET Police Commissioner over the Phone hacking investigation... whose next?

I'd find that funny if it wasn't so tragically shameless

Not really surprising, considering it's Fox News but that is simply an incredible piece of output that is so... wrong. A blatant attempt to sweep the entire affair under the carpet, a fair and balanced segment in under four minutes, my arse.