... few rules as possible." I am going to be looking at the ways in which Rupert Murdoch has changed the television industry in the UK. After mainly specialising in the medium of print Murdoch decided that TV was more of a growing medium here in the UK so in 1989 his media organisation, New International launched a four channel service SKY the UK's first 24 hour news channel using The Astra satellite. Fourteen months later another satellite new provider, British Satellite Broadcasting was launched. Murdoch then had direct competition for a short period of time. For six months the two battled for subscribers, but after losing a great deal of money, BSB and Murdoch's SKY merged to become BSYKB. Murdoch's News International owns 50% of BSKYB. BSKYB/ Sky news was the first of its kind and revolutionised the television industry, never before had you been able to access current ...

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