BSkyB (UK)

BSkyB is the company behind Sky, the UK's foremost pay TV service and the world's first satellite broadcasting business when it was launched by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1989. After a very shaky start, British Sky Broadcasting eventually established itself as one of the country's most profitable broadcasters, buying up rights to many of the UK's biggest sporting events. Almost a decade after its launch the service became the UK's first digital broadcaster, and now broadcasts more than 450 audio and video channels direct to around a third of all UK households. It has also diversified successfully into broadband, telecoms and most recently even a music download service.

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