The day before Sky
Television introduces the first movie subscription channel in Britain and a month before
British Satellite Broadcasting is due to launch five new satellite channels, The Money Programme analyses the economics of satellite broadcasting. The figures are not encouraging; Sky
Television is currently losing at least £2 million a week and BSB has already spent E424 million without transmitting a single picture.
Nisha Pillai talks to
Anthony Simmonds-Gooding of BSB and Rupert Murdoch of Sky Television about who will win supremacy in the satellite war.
Deputy editor ALAN GRIFFITHS Editor DAVID NISSAN