Posted by Simon Perry on 7 February 2008 | Tagged as: Sky, UK, Financials
The interim results for UK satellite broadcaster Sky have been announced, with a £36 million pre-tax loss showing for the six-month
period ending 31 December - its first loss for six years.
Balanced against the financial loss was otherwise positive news, like their ARPU raising to a record £421 per subscriber, an increase in subscribers and a […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 29 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, Sky, UK
In less than 14 months, Sky Broadband has passed the 1 million subscriber milestone - faster than any other UK broadband provider to date.
Sky has found that around 30% of customers who have joined Sky Broadband so far are new Sky TV customers.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 August 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Sky, UK, Legal, Regulation
The Sky/Amstrad comes in for a looky see.
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 August 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Business, Sky, UK
Pace grab extra business from Sky.
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 August 2007 | Tagged as: Content, Sports, Football, News Corp., Sky, Mobile, UK, Cellular
As we’re not fans of football, we’re constantly amazed at how keen people are to watch the game that involves people kicking a pig’s bladder around an oblong section of grass. Ho, Hmm.
Never one to not take the opportunity of cramming more football into people lives, Sky TV has teamed up with a load of […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 31 July 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Sky, UK
Murdoch’s monster media mammoths agrees deal for Amstrad’s set top boxes
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 July 2007 | Tagged as: Sky, Distribution, UK, Sony, Wireless, Portable
Sky find another way to get their content out - this time to the PSP handheld.
Posted by Simon Perry on 24 May 2007 | Tagged as: Investments, Government, News In Brief, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), Sky, Legal, UK, Regulation
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has referred Rupert Murdoch’s Sky purchase of nearly 18% share holding in major UK broadcaster ITV.
In the words of Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, “My decision reflects consideration of the reports I have received from both the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Sky, UK, PVR/DVR
Sky has made the decision to scrap the subscription charge for the Sky+ PVR service starting 1 July 2007.
Since its inception in 2001, Sky has been charging users of the Sky+ service £10 per month to keep using it, this includes receiving the EPG information, required to drive the service.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Sky, UK, Content Deals
Surprise Internet TV deal unlikely to please Virgin Media.
