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The Media Show: The future of BSkyB with or without Rupert Murdoch

02/05/2012

The future of BSkyB with or without Rupert Murdoch

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, The future of BSkyB with or without Rupert Murdoch

The future of BSkyB with or without Rupert Murdoch. Presented by Steve Hewlett.

Will Murdoch's NewsCorp sell if can't own it all? Plus, Ashley Highfield of Johnston Press on the future of local papers, and Roy Hodgson's treatment by the press.

In today's programme with Steve Hewlett:

Just a day after MPs say Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run a major international company, satellite broadcaster BSkyB posts big profits. It won't have escaped NewsCorp's attention that, if all had gone according to plan last summer, it would now own all of BSkyB and would now have all those profits to itself. In the current political climate, what are the prospects of NewsCorp launching a new bid for the 61% it does not already own? Mathew Horsman of Medatique and Theresa Wise discuss the future of BSkyB and whether NewsCorp will sell if buying all the shares becomes too problematic.

Ashley Highfield is the chief executive of Johnston Press and tells Steve how he sees local paper surviving in the digital age. Later this month, some of Johnston's long-standing daily papers are going weekly.

And Mihir Bose looks at the treatment the new England manager Roy Hodgson can expect from some newspapers simply because he is not the papers' favourite, Harry Redknapp.

The producer is Simon Tillotson.

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