The media giant was forced to scuttle plans to buy a controlling share of the lucrative British Sky Broadcasting, Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster.

该媒体巨头被迫放弃收购盈利丰厚的英国最大的卫星广播运营商英国天空广播公司的控股权。

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But the bosses of those outfits share a fear: that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will end up owning British Sky Broadcasting, a satellite TV firm that it already controls.

但是这些公司的老板都害怕同一点，那就是鲁伯特·默多克的新闻集团会获得对英国天空广播公司的拥有权，虽然这家卫星电视公司已在其控制之下。

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British Sky Broadcasting has said it would introduce a 3d satellite channel in the UK next year, but it had been unclear whether there would be equipment available to view it on.

英国天空广播公司(Sky Broadcasting)已表示，明年将在英国推出一个3d卫视频道，但尚不清楚届时是否有相应电视机来收看。

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Ten years later, in 1990, Mr Murdoch pre-empted formal scrutiny by the government and regulators by merging his heavily loss-making Sky TV with the equally loss-making British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB).

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In addition, News Corp. owns almost 40 percent of satellite broadcasters DIRECTV and British Sky Broadcasting.

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's other big European presence is through British Sky Broadcasting Britain's biggest satellite channel which has 8.7 million subscribers.

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