Tag: Sky

LONDON: Sarah Wright, currently Sky’s controller of acquisitions, has been promoted to become director of acquisitions.

LONDON: James Murdoch has been appointed to succeed Nicholas Ferguson as chairman of Sky, which has just reported strong first-half financial results.

LONDON: Sky and CBS Corporation have entered into a long-term licensing agreement that sees Sky Atlantic become the exclusive home of Showtime programming across the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. Sky (formerly BSkyB) was formed in November 1990 from the merger of two competing satellite television services, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting. Over the course of the following 25 years, not only has Sky established itself as …