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A spokesman for BSkyB said the company stood by its statement earlier this month that it was satisfied with the current board arrangements.

As the company braces for further embarrassment and disruption, it will also have to work out a future without BSkyB.

News Corp. dropped its bid to take full control of BSkyB, amid a scandal over reporting tactics at at least one of its U. K. newspapers.

Ofcom, Britain's media regulator, is trying to force BSkyB to sell its games to other distributors for a fixed fee.

Carey made the decision to pull the BSkyB bid in a meeting this morning in London, a person familiar with the matter said.

Just over a week ago, News Corp. was on the brink of gaining government approval to acquire the 60. 9% of BSkyB that it doesn't already own.

Yet If BSkyB is to avoid several months of Murdoch-dominated limbo, its board must be radically reconstructed, starting at the top.

He has withdrawn News Corp's bid for BSkyB voluntarily rather than face an overwhelming vote in the legislature calling on him to do so.

News Corp's British Sky Broadcasting has since been a pivotal force in the industry.

News should be forced to sell down its stake to a maximum of 29 per cent, and the chairmanship should no longer be an hereditary office.

Working in Mr. Murdoch's favor is the fact that the scandal has had no measurable impact on BSkyB's business.

As soon as Mr Cameron suggested that News Corporation should reconsider its bid for BSkyB, the deal was as good as dead.

EDS was appointed in 2000 to design and implement BSkyB's customer service system. The agreement broke down in early 2002.

BSkyB hopes to let people share the contents of their digital video recorders.

But he spoilt it by not giving straight answers when asked if he had spoken to News Corp bosses about the bid for BSkyB.

That should not have been an impossible hurdle to clear, given that it fairly effectively controls BSkyB already.

Later this year BSkyB will introduce its Anytime service, which will use broadband to deliver thousands of hours of on-demand programmes.

Before (if ever) returning to BSkyB, News Corporation could make a run at a cable television network.

Beyond consolidating BSkyB's cash flows (and not paying tax on its dividends) the financial advantages to the deal look limited.

After the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, the focus has shifted toward Rupert Murdoch's heir apparent and BSkyB chairman James Murdoch.

News Corp obviously wants to get the deal done, but BSkyB shareholders should be careful about how far they push it.

BSkyB is already tailoring some advertisements on Sky Player, its online video-streaming service.

He has been forced to close down the News of the World and to abandon a bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting.

Until this is addressed in a more comprehensive way, the likelihood that News Corp can ever revive its BSkyB bid is slim.

"This deal was James' baby, " said one person close to BSkyB.

National Geographic and BSkyB, a British satellite broadcaster, have been filming meerkats in 3-D.

On Friday, News Corp. said Mr. Murdoch had no plans to step down from the BSkyB board.

Earlier this week, the company took steps to delay its proposed deal to acquire the 60. 9% of BSkyB it doesn't own.

He also said, 'News Corporation remains a committed long-term shareholder in BSkyB. '

BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite-television service, already plies 9m customers with interactive ads.

It attracted only 1. 2m subscribers, most of those through BSkyB's satellites, and a lot of complaints.

No single action by Mr Murdoch poisoned his China expansion plans as much as his celebratory speech in 1993 to toast the turnround of BSkyB.

BSkyB, a British satellite broadcaster, offers 505 channels, not including radio or pay-per-view films.

And BSkyB is a moving target: its financial performance has improved since News Corp offered 700p a share.

BSkyB shares closed at 711. 53 pence in London trading Thursday, down 2. 97 pence.

Consumers are worse off: fans wanting all the televised games had to buy Setanta's as well as BSkyB's, and so had to pay more than before.

News Corp must also decide what to do with the $12bn it would have spent on BSkyB.

A current investigation into BSkyB's monopoly in the pay-television market may have something to do with his son's antipathy towards Ofcom.

News Corp. owns thirty-nine per cent of BSkyB's shares, and Murdoch picks its boss.

There are other matters beyond James's role in the scandal that could play a role in determining his future at BSkyB.

After a brief swoon when the bid was withdrawn, its shares were barely changed, at their lowest earnings multiple since 2009.

But shareholders are getting increasingly nervous, sending BSkyB shares down 7. 6% earlier in the day Monday.

Both News Corp. BSkyB shares were sharply lower Monday.

Answering these questions, and his day job at News Corp, suggest that he will not have enough time to discharge his BSkyB duties.

And it's interesting too that BSkyB and the Wall Street Journal rely on content that is fantastically time-sensitive: sports and finance.

We have long argued that a News Corp takeover of Sky raises troubling questions about UK media plurality.

BSkyB is a similarly brutal negotiator.

That leaves BSkyB shareholders in limbo.

BSkyB, Mr Murdoch's UK broadcaster, also has a 33 per cent stake in news channel Sky News Australia.

"I might be the one with a remote control in my hand, but there are other people in the room, " says Brian Lenz of BSkyB.

BSkyB will report full-year results Friday.

James Murdoch, the chief's son, is a competent man who ran BSkyB well.

He hopes his BSkyB satellite network will one day lure 12m British viewers.

So do the decent and sensible thing, and reconsider, think again about your bid for BSkyB.

In the UK, the fact BSkyB recently paid 24 per cent more than last year for Premier League broadcast rights suggests it might be.

BSkyB plans to launch a 3D channel later this year.

The scandal skewered News Corp. 's proposed offer to buy full control of BSkyB.

News Corp shares rose 2. 2 per cent to $16. 44 in New York as investors hoped the move would help end the political backlash.

From 2003 until 2007, his youngest son, James Murdoch, was BSkyB's C. E. O.

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The writer is the chairman of Top Up TV and was formerly deputy managing director of BSkyB

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