BSkyB - Interim results 2010/2011
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News Corp
You released your first-half results today which we'll move on to in a moment. But firstly, Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary has asked the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom to consider a remedy that's been proposed by News Corp with regard to their acquisition of you. What does that mean for your business?
Well, we're obviously in the regulatory process. And we've said that we will co-operate with News Corp and try and move them through that process so they can be in a position to come back and make an offer for the company. Today, there's no further update. We'll obviously work through that. And then when something comes out of that which we can update people on, then we'll do so at the time.
I think for the business, it really means no change. Our job is to stay focused, in terms of what we're doing and just keep executing well against that plan. So that's what we're going to do.
But how much of a distraction is all this to you on a day-to-day management level?
Well look, I think you can see from the strength of the results that we've announced today that we've stayed very focused in terms of delivering our plan, executing what is a strategy that we've laid out for a number of years now. And I think that the business performance is strong pretty much across the board. So it isn't a distraction. We're very focused on the business.
Results
So moving on to your results, they do seem to be a positive set of figures. What would you pick out as the highlights?
Well I think that we were strong across the board. And that was one of the things that I was particularly pleased with. We had good rates of overall customer…
