British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC

LON:BSY ISIN:GB0001411924

Feb 10, 2012

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British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC Company Summary

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (LON:BSY) and its subsidiaries operate a pay television service in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as broadband and telephony services. The Company commissions and acquires programming to broadcast on its own channels, and supplies certain of those channels to cable operators for retransmission to their subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Company retails channels (both its own and third parties) to direct-to-home (DTH) customers and certain of its own channels to a limited number of digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers. It also makes three of its channels available free-to-air through the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform, as part of the branded Freeview offering.

COMPANY DATA

	Principal Sector	Television & Radio

	Principal Industry	Leisure & Entertainment

	Homepage	www.sky.com

Key Developments: British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC

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