She dismissed the Democratic United Party's claim that bringing the media into a new Ministry for Planning and Science was a move to control broadcasting.
Additionally, if British media regulators feel Murdoch is not a "fit and proper person" to hold a British broadcasting license, he could theoretically be stripped of control of British Sky Broadcasting, a lucrative part of his worldwide operations.
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's multibillion-dollar bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
The scandal last year prompted News Corp. to retreat from its bid to acquire 100% control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch issued a rare public mea culpa, canceled a controversial deal to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting and accepted the resignations of several top lieutenants (one, News International chief Rebekah Brooks, was subsequently arrested and questioned).
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The Conference recommended that regional governments consider harmonising policies and the legal and regulatory framework for the development of public service broadcasting which should be independent of direct political control.
Murdoch finally succumbed to the turmoil that for a time threatened to engulf the entire company, even after it stepped away from a controversial bid to acquire full control of its UK-based broadcasting arm, ending any possibility of him succeeding his father at the helm of one of the most powerful media empires in the world.
If British media regulators feel Murdoch is not a "fit and proper person" to hold a British broadcasting license, he could theoretically be stripped of control of BSkyB, a lucrative part of his worldwide operations.
It has also forced the company to abandon its bid to take full control of pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
His reforms over the past year included scrapping state security courts, cementing civilian control of the army, allowing Kurdish-language teaching and broadcasting, and shaking up the police and judiciary.
On Saturday night, as supporters camped outside his headquarters in Lahore's Model Town area, Mr. Sharif sat on a couch in a room packed with close advisers, a remote control in his hand, as he flicked between TV channels broadcasting the vote count.
Among the entities expected, until recently, to be subordinated to State's managerial and budgetary control -- and inevitably, therefore, to its policy dictates -- is the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Daniel Sandberg is tweaking the remote control system of a 6-foot-tall robot as it wanders through the halls, broadcasting what it sees to a laptop.
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