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    News - News Corp bids for complete ownership of BSkyB

    The offer to acquire the remaining 61 percent of the company is rejected as being too low.
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    Re: News - News Corp bids for complete ownership of BSkyB

    I had always assumed that BSkyB was controlled by News Corp anyway! I was surprised to hear the offer had been rejected.

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    Re: News - News Corp bids for complete ownership of BSkyB

    Quote Originally Posted by bradyjames View Post
    I had always assumed that BSkyB was controlled by News Corp anyway!
    +1. I had no idea Murdoch only owned a portion of the company.

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    Re: News - News Corp bids for complete ownership of BSkyB

    Waahhhhh? I was under the impression that NewCorp owned Sky already...?!

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    Re: News - News Corp bids for complete ownership of BSkyB

    It makes sense it is a partnership as originally there was BSB (British Satellite Braodcasting) and Sky. Which merged to become BSkyB. If it had been an outright purchase by Sky the company would have been called just Sky. Or the channels and service would have been sky with the parent company being Newscorp, not BSkyB.

    I thought it would have been more like 51%/49% though.

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