Sky Group
Sign in to saveAlso known as BSkyB, Sky Plc, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, Sky
British media and telecommunications conglomerate
Key facts
- Formerly
- British Sky Broadcasting plc (1990–2014), Sky plc (2014–19)
- Company type
- Subsidiary
- Traded as
- LSE : SKY (2014–18), LSE : BSY (1994–2014), NYSE : BSY (1994–2010), FTSE 100 component (BSY, 1995–2014), FTSE 100 component (SKY, 2014–18)
- Industry
- Telecommunications Mass media
- Predecessors
- Sky Television British Satellite Broadcasting
- Founded
- 2 November 1990 ; 35 years ago ( 2 November 1990 )
- Headquarters
- Sky Campus , London , England, UK
- Area served
- Europe
- Key people
- Dana Strong ( CEO )
- Products
- Direct-broadcast satellite , pay television , broadcasting , broadband and telephony services
- Revenue
- £14.5 billion (2022)
- Owner
- News Corporation (39.14%, until 2013) 21st Century Fox (39.14%, 2013–18)
- Number of employees
- 32,000 (2021)
- Parent
- Comcast (2018–present)
- Divisions
- The Cloud Diagonal View
- Subsidiaries
- Sky UK Sky Italia Sky Studios Now (operated by Xfinity in the United States)
- Website
- skygroup.sky
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- subsidiary company
- Official name
- Sky Group Limited
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded by
- Rupert Murdoch
- Headquarters
- Isleworth
- Owned by
- Comcast
- Parent organization
- Comcast
- Subsidiary
- Sky Italia
- Chairperson
- Nicholas Ferguson
- Legal form
- public limited company
- Official website
- www.skygroup.sky
- Image
- Aerial view of Sky campus in 2011.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sky Group
- Commons category
- Sky Group
- inception
- 1990-11-02
- market capitalization
- 17499600000
- MAC Address Block Large ID
- C03E0F
- product or material produced
- satellite television
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Encyclopedic overview
Sky Group Limited, trading as Sky, is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate owned by Comcast and headquartered in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy. Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster by revenue (as of 2018), with 23 million subscribers and more than 31,000 employees as of 2019. The company is primarily involved in satellite television, producing and broadcasting. The current CEO is Dana Strong.
Formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest pay television company. In 2014, after completing the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, the merged company changed its name to Sky plc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sky Group” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.