The landing of the Australian magnate of the means Rupert Murdoch in Spain will have to wait. And his ambitious target to turn into the world leader of the television of payment will have to happen without being provided, at the moment, with Digitalis + because it has just moved back from the sale process.
BSkyB, the television satellite of the United Kingdom of that Murdoch controls 39 %, will not present offer next week. On November 12 he conquers the fixed term so that the group Prisa, proprietor of the Spanish platform of payment, receives the binding offers.
BSkyB was part of the group of interested parties, but in the final straight line he decided not to continue. With the worry for the cost of the rights of Premier League and some regulative obstacles, the investors received with mitigation the news.
(The Gazette, 05/11/08) |