News Corp ‘may exit from Sky News’

Tim Burrowes

January 21, 2011 9:31

News Corp may give up its stake in Sky News, reports the UK’s Financial Times.

The move could be triggered by News Corp’s attempts to take full ownership of British pay TV company BSkyB.

Sky News is owned in the UK by BSkyB, while in Austrlia it is a joint ventuire between Seven, Nine and BSkyB.

The Financial Times reports that News Corp is keen to avoid regulatory concerns over media diversity if it takes full ownership of BSkyB. The media company’s British company News International already dominates the newspaper landscape with The Times, Sunday Times, Sun and News of the World.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.