News Corporation today announced it has secured additional shares in Sky Deutschland AG*, increasing its total stake in the German pay-television platform to 39.96 percent from 30.5 percent.
Notes to editors:
*Premiere AG, recently renamed as “Sky Deutschland AG”, registration with the commercial register still pending.
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total assets as of March 31, 2009 of approximately US$52 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$31 billion. News Corporation is a diversified global media company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers and information services; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and Latin America.
Contacts:
News Corporation
Teri Everett, 212-852-7070
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