The lofty British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) is a leading pay-TV provider serving the UK and Ireland, with more than 10 million subscribers. BSkyB distributes entertainment, news, and sports programming to subscribers via direct-to-home satellite, primarily through its Sky Digital brand. Sky programming is augmented with services such as video on demand through Sky Anytime, mobile viewing via Sky Go, and more than 270 subscription-free channels on its Freesat from Sky service. It also provides Internet service with its Sky Broadband, telephony service under Sky Talk, and it licenses some channels to cable operators such as Virgin Media. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. owns nearly 40% of BSkyB.

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• BBC
• ITV
• Virgin Media

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Subsidiaries/affiliates of British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (London: BSY)

• 365 Media Group plc
• Amstrad Ltd
• The Biography Channel (UK)
• DTV Services Limited
• Living TV Group Holdings Limited
• Paramount UK Partnership

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• #397 in FT Global 500 (June 2011)
• FTSE 100