BSkyB

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (commonly known as BSkyB; trading as Sky) is a British satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, with operations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB is the largest pay-TV broadcaster in Britain and Ireland with over 10 million subscribers.

BSkyB is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £11.47 billion (US$18 billion) as of 20 June 2012 on the London Stock Exchange. News Corporation owns a 39.14 per cent controlling stake in the company.

History
British Sky Broadcasting was formed by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting on 2 November 1990. Both companies had begun to struggle financially and were both suffering Hugh financial losses as both competed against each other for viewers. Formally a merger, the deal was 'effectively a takeover by News Corporation '.

The Merger was was investigated by Office of fair trading but was cleared a month later since many of the representations views were more conrened about contractul arrangements which had nothing to do with Competition. Independent Broadcasting Authority were not consulted about the deal which resulted in them being is-incensed. IBA demanded precises details about the merger, stated there were considering the repercussions of the deal to ultimately determine whether BSB contracts is null and voild. On 17 November, the IBA decided to terminated British Satellite Broadcasting contract, but not immeditaley as it was deemed unfair to 120'000 viewers who had brought BSB devices.

Sam Chisholm was the appointment CEO, in a bid to reorganized the new company, which continued to make loses of £10 million per week. The defunct BSB's HQ, Marco Polo House were sold off, 39% of the new company's employers were made redundant to leave just under 1000 employees, Many of the new senior BSkyB executive roles were given to Sky personnel with many BSB leaving the company. In April the Sky/BSB channels had been rationalised into five, with EuroSport being dropped, in favour of Sky Sports. Chisholm also renegotiated the merged company's expensive deals with the Hollywood studios, slashing the minimum guaranteed payments. IBA defunct Marcopolo I satellite were sold off in December 1993 to Sweden's NSAB and Marcopolo II in July 1992 to Norway's Telenor, after the ITC were unable to found new companies to take over the BSB liecenes and compete with BSKYB. News Internationale revived 50%, Pearson PLC 17.5%, Chargeurs 17.5%, Granada 12% Reed International 2% of the new shares in the company.

By September 1991, the weekly losses had been reduced to £1.5M a week, Rupert Murdoch said "there were strong financial marketing and political reason for making the compromise merger instead of letting BSB die. Many of the lessons had been learnt with more than half the running cost of the combined company" Further cuts in losses where a direct result of the addition 313'000 new customers joining during the first half of 1991. BSkyB By March 1992, started it first operating profits, of £100,000 per week, £3.8 million weekly from subscriptions revenues and £1M from advertising revenues, but continued to be burdened with £1.28 Billion of debt. James capel believe BskyB will continued to replay debt until the year 2000.

Premiership football
In the Autumn of 1991,talks where held for the broadcast rights for Premier League for a five-year period, from the 1992 season. ITV were the current rights holders, and fought hard to retain the new rights. ITV had increased its offer from £18M to £34M per year to keep control of the rights. BSkyB joined forces with the BBC to make a counter bid. The BBC was given the highlights of the most the matches, while BskyB paying £304 million for the Premier League rights, with give them a monopoly of all live matches, up to 60 per years from the 1992 season. Murdoch has described sport as a "battering ram" for pay-television, providing a strong customer base.

Few week after the deal ITV went to the High court to get an injection as it believe their details were leaked before the decision was taken. ITV also asked the Office of fair trading to also inverisgite since it believe Rupert Murdoch media empire via the newspapers had influence the deal. A few days later neither action took effect, ITV believe BskyB was telephoned and informed informed of its £262M bid and Premier League advised BskyB to increase it counter bid.

Following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly came to an end from the 2007–08 season. In May 2006 the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premiership packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for £1.3 billion.

Sky Multichannels
The service started on 1 September 1993 based on the idea from the then chief executive officer, Sam Chisholm and Rupert Murdoch, of converting the company business strategy to an entirely fee-based concept. The new packaged included Four channels formerly available free-to-air, broadcasting on Astra's satellites, as well as introducing new channels. The service continued until the closure of BSkyB's analogue service on 27 September 2001, due to the launch and expansion of the Sky Digital platform. Some of the channels did broadcast either in the clear or soft encrypted (whereby a Videocrypt decoder was required to decode, but without a subscription card) prior to their addition to the Sky Multichannels package. With in two months of the launch, sky gained 400'000 new subscribers, with the majority taking at least one premium channel aswell. which helped BSKYB reach 3.5 million households by mid-1994. Micheal grade critised the operations in front of the Select committee, mainly for the lack of original programming on many of the new channels.

In October 1994 BskyB anncouned its plans to float the company on the the UK and US stock exchanges, selling off 20% of the company. The stock flotation, reduced Murdoch's holding to 40 percent, raised £900m which allowed the company's to cut its debt in half. Sam chisholm said "By Any standards this is an excellent result, in every area of the company has performed strongly. Chisholm, become one of the world's most highly paid television executives.

In 1995;
 * BSkyB opened its second customer management centre at Dunfermline, Scotland, to complement its original centre at livingston which opened in 1989.
 * BskyB enters the FTSE 100 index.
 * Operation profits increase to £155M a year
 * Pearon, sold off it 17.5% stake since it has no management control at the company

Sam Chisholm left BSkyB resgined from BSkyb, due a rift with Rupert murdoch, Week later Murdoch was quoted as saying " I cannot understand the fuss BSkyB was grossly overprices" which caused further rifts with the new management.

Sky Digital
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The launch of the Astra 2A satellite at a new orbital position, 28.2° east, in 1998 (subsequently followed by more Astra satellites as well as Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 (now Eutelsat 28A) at 28.5°E), enabled the company to launch a new all-digital service, Sky, with the potential to carry hundreds of television and radio channels. Sky does not own any of the satellites it has used since withdrawing services from the Marcopolo craft; the Astra satellites are owned and operated by Astra and Eutelsat 28A by Eutelsat. While BSkyB's fortunes continued to rise--with revenues topping £1 billion and pre-tax profits of £257 million by year-end 1996--the company also hastened to join the next, and perhaps greatest, revolution in television history: digital broadcasting. With the capacity of offering as many as 500 channels, as well as interactive services such as video on demand and telephony applications, the dawn of digital broadcast technology was quickly making BSkyB's analog equipment appear obsolete. BSkyB first announced its intention to join a consortium with European media giants Bertelsmann of Germany, and CanalPlus and Havas of France, to form a digital television alliance. When that fell through, BSkyB next attempted to form a joint-venture partnership with Germany's Kirch Gruppe. This deal, too, fell through. Finally, in May 1997, BSkyB announced the formation of British Interactive Broadcasting (BIB), an independent company owned by BSkyB and British Telecom (each with 32.5 percent), Midland Bank (20 percent), and Matsushita Electric (15 percent). With initial funding of £265 million, BIB promised to bring BSkyB--and the United Kingdom--firmly into the new era of interactive digital television and telephony services. Indeed, the launch of BSkyB's digital service in 1998 was enormously successful. Sky digital, the United Kingdom's first digital television service, easily carved out a leading position in the industry with its offering of 140 channels. In just 30 days, the company sold over 100,000 digiboxes and secured its position as the fastest-growing digital platform in the world. This growth continued at a rapid clip and was bolstered by the company's decision to give away free digiboxes, or set-top boxes, and minidishes. Within ten months of the promotion, Sky digital had gained 1.2 million new subscribers. In 1998, the company also launched several interactive services, including Sky Sports Extra--which allowed viewers access to instant replays, match statistics, and highlights--and Open, an interactive shopping channel. The Economist explained the frenzy surrounding digital television in a May 2001 article, claiming that "digital brings many features, among them a clearer picture and the ability to squeeze more channels into the box. But the main reason why British pay-TV broadcasters, with their continental counterparts, are in breathless pursuit of this costly conversion is that digital TV promises interactivity: the ability of viewers to 'talk' to the telly. Interactive TV, it is said, will animate couch potatoes, tempting them to spend money ordering anything from pizzas to package holidays, all at the press of a remote-control button." According to the article, research group Jupiter Media Metrix claimed that by 2004 interactive commerce and research would rise to $8.1 billion in Europe, while climbing to $5 billion in the United States. As such, BSkyB entered the new century ahead of the game in the U.K. digital arena. The company introduced the first interactive advertising campaigns in 2000 and rolled out Sky News Active, the world's first interactive television news service. It also launched Sky+, a fully-integrated personal video recorder. By 2001, the firm's digital subscriber base had surpassed five million. That year, BSkyB shuttered its analog signal, becoming the world's first nationwide provider to rely solely on digital service. By 2002, Sky digital programming was broadcasted into a quarter of all British households. The company developed Freeview that year, offering customers three channels through digital terrestrial television (DTT). The firm defined DTT as television channels using digital signals delivered to homes through a conventional aerial and then converted through a digibox or set-top box. In 2003, BSkyB expanded into music television with the launch of three new channels. The company signed its seven millionth subscriber in October of that year. Since his appointment in 1999, BSkyB CEO Tony Ball had overseen the company's successful foray into the digital television industry. Over a five-year period, the company had transformed itself into a digital powerhouse, garnering respect from its international peers as well as industry acclaim. Ball announced his intentions to leave his post in October 2003, causing many to speculate about the company's future leadership. In November, Murdoch appointed his 30-year-old son, James Murdoch, to the position. While the younger Murdoch had industry experience heading up News Corp.'s Asian satellite network, certain shareholders opposed the appointment based on the belief that he lacked the necessary experience to run BSkyB's burgeoning digital network.

Stake in ITV
ITV plc has been the subject of a flurry of rumoured take-over and merger bids since it was formed. For example, on 9 November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached ITV plc about a proposed merger. The merger was effectively blocked by BSkyB on 17 November 2006 when it controversially bought a 17.9% stake in ITV plc for £940 million, a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom. On 6 December 2006, NTL announced that it had complained to the Office of Fair Trading about BSkyB's move. NTL stated that it had withdrawn its attempt to buy ITV plc, citing that it did not believe that there was any possibility to make a deal on favourable terms. At the same time as the NTL bid, RTL Group, the then-owner of Channel 5, was also rumoured to be preparing a bid for ITV plc, with the possibility of a stock-swap with BSkyB. The plan would see RTL Group acquiring BSkyB's stake in ITV plc (with the aim of further acquisitions of shares in the future) in exchange for BSkyB taking full control of Channel 5. However, no move materialised and RTL Group sold Channel 5 to Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell in July 2010.

Virgin Media dispute
Virgin Media (Re-branded in 2007 from NTL:Telewest) started to offer a high-definition television (HDTV) capable set top box, although from 30 November 2006 until 30 July 2009 it only carried one linear HD channel, BBC HD, after the conclusion of the ITV HD trial. Virgin has claimed that other HD channels were "locked up" or otherwise withheld from their platform, although Virgin did in fact have an option to carry Channel 4 HD in the future. Nonetheless, the linear channels were not offered, Virgin instead concentrating on its Video On Demand service to carry a modest selection of HD content. Virgin has nevertheless made a number of statements over the years, suggesting that more linear HD channels are on the way.

In 2007, BSkyB and Virgin Media became involved in a dispute over the carriage of Sky channels on cable TV. The failure to renew the existing carriage agreements negotiated with NTL and Telewest resulted in Virgin removing the basic channels from the network on 1 March 2007. Virgin claimed that Sky had substantially increased the asking price for the channels, a claim which Sky denied, on the basis that their new deal offered "substantially more value" by including HD channels and Video On Demand content which was not previously carried by cable.

In response, Sky ran a number of TV, radio and print advertisements claiming that Virgin media 'doubted the value' of the channels concerned, at first urging Virgin customers to call their cable operator to show their support for Sky, but later urging Virgin customers to migrate to Sky to continue receiving the channels. The broadcasting regulator Ofcom subsequently found these commercials in breach of their code.

The availability (at an extra charge) of Sky's premium sport and movie services was not affected by the dispute. This impasse continued for twenty-one months, with both companies initiating High Court proceedings. Amongst Virgin's claims to the court (denied by Sky) were that Sky had unfairly reduced the amount which it paid to VMTV for the carriage of Virgin's own channels on satellite.

Eventually, on 4 November 2008 it was announced that an agreement had been struck for Sky's Basic channels – including Sky1, Sky2, Sky3, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Real Lives and Sky Real Lives 2 to return to Virgin Media from 13 November 2008 until 12 June 2011. In exchange will be provided continued carriage of Virgin Media Television's channels – Living, Livingit, Bravo, Bravo +1, Trouble, Challenge and Virgin1 for the same period.

The agreements include fixed annual carriage fees of £30m for the channels with both channel suppliers able to secure additional capped payments if their channels meet certain performance-related targets. Currently there is no indication as to whether the new deal includes the additional Video On Demand and High Definition content which had previously been offered by Sky. As part of the agreements, both Sky and Virgin Media agreed to terminate all High Court proceedings against each other relating to the carriage of their respective basic channels.

On 4 June 2010, BSkyB and Virgin Media announced that they had reached agreement for the acquisition by Sky of Virgin Media Television. The companies have, in parallel, agreed to enter into a number of agreements providing for the carriage of certain Sky standard and high-definition (HD) channels. Sky acquired VMtv for a total consideration of up to £160 million in cash, with £105 million paid on completion and the remainder paid following the regulatory process. The acquisition expanded Sky's portfolio of basic pay TV channels and eliminated the carriage fees it previously paid for distributing VMtv channels on its TV services. New carriage agreements will secure wholesale distribution of Sky's basic channel line-up, including Sky1 and Sky Arts, and the newly acquired VMtv channels, on Virgin Media's cable TV service. For an incremental wholesale fee, Virgin Media will, for the first time, have the option of carrying any of Sky's basic HD channels, Sky Sports HD 1 and Sky Sports HD 2, and all Sky Movies HD channels. Virgin Media will make available through its on-demand TV service a range of content from Sky's basic and premium channels, including the newly acquired VMtv channels. Virgin Media will also have access to red button interactive sports coverage and the opportunity to deliver selected standard definition programming over the internet. Sky will assume responsibility for selling advertising for the newly acquired VMtv channels from January 2011. Completion of the agreements was conditional on obtaining merger control clearance in the Republic of Ireland.

Virgin1 was also a part of the deal but was rebranded as Channel One on 3 September 2010, as the Virgin name was not licensed to Sky. The new carriage deals are understood to be for up to nine years.

On 29 June 2010, The Competition Authority in Ireland cleared the proposed transaction.

On 20 July 2010, The Office of Fair Trading announced that they would review BSkyB's acquisition of the Virgin Media Television business to judge whether it posed any competition concerns in the UK. The OFT planned to investigate the deal to see whether it could constitute a qualifying merger under the Enterprise Act 2002. The watchdog invited interested parties from the industry to comment on the sale, including its potential impact on the pay-TV market. On 14 September 2010, The OFT decided not to refer BSkyB's takeover of Virgin Media's TV channels to the Competition Commission.

2010s
BSkyB’s direct-to-home satellite service became available in 10 million homes in 2010, Europe's first pay-TV platform in to achieve that milestone. Confirming it had reached its target, the broadcaster said its reach into 36% of households in the UK and Ireland represented an audience of more than 25 million people. The target was first announced in August 2004, since then an additional 2.4 million customers had subscribed to Sky's direct-to-home service. Media commentators had debated whether the figure could be reached as the growth in subscriber numbers elsewhere in Europe flattened.

BSkyB announced that it was moving some channels further up the listings of its electronic programming guide. It was, reported Broadband TV News, the biggest reshuffle in EPG positions for over a decade, with MTV, Comedy Central, Universal, Syfy, News Corporation's FX, and 40 HD channels moving to more prominent places.

On 13 July, News Corporation dropped its bid for 100% of BSkyB in the light of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

In September 2012, United Kingdom broadcasting regulator Ofcom ruled that BSkyB could stay on air –but it criticised former chairman Murdoch's handling of the News International phone hacking scandal. ‘As a company, we are committed to high standards of governance and we take our regulatory obligations extremely seriously,’ BSkyB replied in a media release.

On 26 September 2012, BSkyB relaunched its “Anytime+” on-demand-via-broadband service as “On Demand” as the BBC’s iPlayer joined the line-up of channels offering catch-up TV on the company’s Sky+ or Sky HD box – linked to an ADSL modem, the signal from which was recorded before viewing. The BBC was making the preceding week’s programmes available alongside ITV, Channel 5 and the partly BBC Worldwide-owned UKTV, as well as BSkyB’s own channels - with Channel 4’s 4oD service due to join the line-up in 2013.

London’s right-of-centre Daily Mail reported that the UK government’s benefits agency was checking claimants’ ‘Sky TV bills to establish if a woman in receipt of benefits as a single mother is wrongly claiming to be living alone’ – as, it claimed, subscription to sports channels would betray a man’s presence in the household. And, in December, the UK’s parliament heard a claim that a subscription to BSkyB was ‘often damaging’, along with alcohol, tobacco and gambling. Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke was proposing the payments of benefits and tax credits on a “Welfare Cash Card” that could be used to buy only “essentials”.

Corporate
News Corporation currently has a 39.1% stake in BSkyB. News Corp also fully owns Sky Italia, about 78% of New Zealand's SKY Network Television Limited and b.net of Croatia and Montenegro.

The first CEO of BSkyB was Sam Chisholm, who was CEO of Sky TV before the merger. Chisholm served in this position until 1997. He was followed by Mark Booth who was credited with leading the company through the introduction of Sky. Tony Ball was appointed in 1999 and completed the company's analogue to digital conversion. He is also credited with returning the company to profit and bringing subscriber numbers to new heights. In 2003 Ball announced his resignation and James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch was announced as his successor. This appointment caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders.

On 7 December 2007 it was announced that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down as BSkyB's Non-Executive Chairman and would be replaced by his son, James. It was announced in 2007 that James would be stepping down as CEO of BSkyB and will be replaced by Jeremy Darroch. The News Corporation takeover bid for BSkyB was launched in June 2010, and withdrawn in July 2011 following the News International phone hacking scandal. News Corporation already owned 39.1% of BSkyB, and held on to its stake following the collapse of the takeover bid.

Digital terrestrial television
BSkyB initially faced competition from the ONdigital digital terrestrial television service (later renamed ITV Digital). ITV Digital failed for numerous reasons, including, but not limited to numerous administrative and technical failures, nervous investors after a large down-turn in the advertising market and the dot com crash, and BSkyB's aggressive marketing and domination of premium sporting rights. While Sky had been excluded from being a part of the ONdigital consortium, thereby making them a competitor by default, Sky was able to join ITV Digital's free-to-air replacement, Freeview, in which it holds an equal stake with the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and National Grid Wireless. Prior to October 2005, three BSkyB channels were available on this platform: Sky News, Sky Three, and Sky Sports News. Initially BSkyB provided Sky Travel to the service. However, this was replaced by Sky Three on 31 October 2005, which was itself later rebranded as 'Pick TV' in 2010. On 8 February 2007, Sky announced its intention to replace its three free-to-air digital terrestrial channels with four subscription channels. It was proposed that these channels would offer a range of content from the Sky portfolio including sport (including English Premiership Football), films, entertainment and news. The announcement came a day after Setanta Sports confirmed that it would launch in March as a subscription service on the digital terrestrial platform, and on the same day that NTL's services re-branded as Virgin Media. However, industry sources believe Sky will be forced to shelve plans to withdraw its channels from Freeview and replace them with subscription channels, due to possible lost advertising revenue.

Video on demand
Sky is facing increased competition from telecommunications providers delivering pay television services over existing telephone lines using ADSL. Such providers are potentially able to offer "triple-play" or "quad-play" packages combining land-line telephone, broadband Internet, mobile telephone and pay television services. To compete with these providers, in October 2005, BSkyB bought the broadband Internet Service Provider Easynet for £211 million. This acquisition allowed BSkyB to start offering a Sky-branded broadband service as well as a "triple play" package combining satellite television, land-line telephone and Broadband service. Sky also offers some streaming live TV channels to a computer using Microsoft's Silverlight.

Game consoles
On 29 May 2009, it was confirmed that Sky Go would be made available via Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. Although Sky Go is not available on the PlayStation 3, in November 2011 Sony Computer Entertainment (株式会社ソニー·コンピュータエンタテインメント) struck a deal with Sky to bring some of its shows to the PlayStation Store Video Store. Users are able buy individual TV episodes in SD or HD.

Broadband
On 1 March 2013, it was announced that BSkyB would buy O2's and Be's broadband services from Telefónica for £180 million up front plus another £20 million once customers have been transferred. Telefonica said the deal would allow it to concentrate on providing better mobile services, including rolling out 4G.

Channels operated by Sky in the United Kingdom & Ireland
The number of channels Sky own and broadcast is approaching one hundred (including SD, HD and +1 variants). All are available on the Sky satellite television platform, which they also own and manage, though many of their channels are also available on other platforms. The majority of their channels are broadcast encrypted so are only available through subscriptions packages or pay-to-view options. In addition, Sky manage a number of channels on behalf of other broadcasters through their Sky Ventures partnerships. As part of their involvement as a partner in Freeview on the DTT platform, Sky are committed to providing 3 FTA channels. These are currently Pick (formerly Sky 3, then Pick TV), Challenge and Sky News. Sky have deliberately opted not to brand Pick and Challenge with the Sky name unlike all their other channels. However these channels do act as what is termed 'barkers' to promote Sky's satellite subscriptions.

Main Channels
 * Sky 1
 * Sky 1 +1
 * Sky 1 HD
 * Sky 2
 * Sky Atlantic
 * Sky Atlantic +1
 * Sky Atlantic HD
 * Sky Arts 1
 * Sky Arts 1 HD
 * Sky Arts 2
 * Sky Arts 2 HD
 * Sky Living
 * Sky Living +1
 * Sky Living HD
 * Sky Living It
 * Sky Living It +1
 * Sky News HD

FTA Channels
 * Challenge
 * Challenge +1
 * Pick
 * Pick +1
 * Sky News

Movie Channels
 * Sky Movies Action & Adventure
 * Sky Movies Action & Adventure HD
 * Sky Movies Comedy
 * Sky Movies Comedy HD
 * Sky Movies Crime & Thriller
 * Sky Movies Crime & Thriller HD
 * Sky Movies Disney
 * Sky Movies Disney HD
 * Sky Movies Drama & Romance
 * Sky Movies Drama & Romance HD
 * Sky Movies Family
 * Sky Movies Family HD
 * Sky Movies Greats
 * Sky Movies Greats HD
 * Sky Movies Premiere
 * Sky Movies Premiere +1
 * Sky Movies Premiere HD
 * Sky Movies Sci Fi & Horror
 * Sky Movies Sci Fi & Horror HD
 * Sky Movies Select
 * Sky Movies Select HD
 * Sky Movies Showcase
 * Sky Movies Showcase HD

Sports Channels
 * Sky Sports 1
 * Sky Sports 1 HD
 * Sky Sports 2
 * Sky Sports 2 HD
 * Sky Sports 3
 * Sky Sports 3 HD
 * Sky Sports 4
 * Sky Sports 4 HD
 * Sky Sports F1
 * Sky Sports F1 HD
 * Sky Sports News
 * Sky Sports News HD

Gaming Channel
 * SkyPoker.com

Pay-per-view Channels
 * Sky Movies Box Office x36
 * Sky Movies Box Office HD

Sky Information Channels - for the Sky satellite platform only
 * Sky Intro Channel x3 duplicates, info for new users
 * Sky Channel promo channel
 * Sky Channel Line-up audio only
 * Sky HD Retail info for business subscriptions
 * Sky Channel 999 help channel
 * Sky Insider HD info for Sky employees
 * The Pub Channel info for licensed premises subscriptions

Sky Ventures Partnership Channels
Nickelodeon UK - BSkyB 50% owned / 50% Viacom International
 * Nickelodeon
 * Nickelodeon +1
 * Nickelodeon HD
 * Nicktoons
 * Nick Jr.
 * Nick Jr. +1
 * Nick Jr. 2

Paramount UK Partnership - BSkyB 25% owned / 75% Viacom International
 * Comedy Central
 * Comedy Central +1
 * Comedy Central HD
 * Comedy Central Extra
 * Comedy Central Extra +1

NGC Europe Limited - BSkyB 50% owned / 50% NGC-UK Partnership (Fox International Channels UK / Nat Geo)
 * Nat Geo
 * Nat Geo +1
 * Nat Geo HD
 * Nat Geo Wild
 * Nat Geo Wild HD

A+E Networks UK - BSkyB 50% owned / 50% A+E Networks (Disney-ABC Television Group / Hearst Corporation)
 * History
 * History +1
 * History HD
 * H2
 * CI
 * CI +1
 * CI HD
 * Lifetime
 * Lifetime +1
 * Lifetime HD

MGM Channel (UK) Limited - BSkyB 50% owned / 50% Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
 * MGM HD

Attheraces Limited - BSkyB 47.5% owned / 52.5% Arena Leisure & 28 UK Racecourses
 * At The Races

Sky News Arabia - BSkyB 50% owned / 50% Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation
 * Sky News Arabia