's other big European presence is through British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ) Britain's biggest satellite channel which has 8.7 million subscribers.

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Unlikely confusion notwithstanding, shares in the broadband Internet provider have risen on speculation BSkyB (nyse: BSY - news - people )will launch a bid for the company.

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It effectively spells a renegotiation of Disney's decade-old distribution deal with British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), Britain's leading satellite provider, which is majority owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.

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