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 Group Plc rallied 1.9 percent to 742.5 pence amid speculation that News Corp. 's takeover of the company is more likely to be approved.

英国天空广播公司(Sky Broadcasting Group)股价上涨1.9%，至742.5便士，外界猜测美国新闻集团收购天空广播的协议有望得到批准。

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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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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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It has also forced the company to abandon its bid to take full control of pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.

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