The Sky and the limit

Is the Guardians main worry that the cash flow from Sky can be used to keep Murdoch newspapers alive?

I find it difficult to understand the psychology of a man whose British offerings include The Times (a brand name intelligent newspaper), The Sun (a mass circulation newspaper for people who do not take the news seriously) and BSkyB - a satellite broadcaster that relies mainly on football and American dramas. Where is the synergy?

An additional comment: I have noticed that more and more of my fellow football supporters are watching live premiership games via free streams - either through the internet or by picking up foreign satellite services. This is an unstoppable trend IMO - and will only worsen as mobile phone video transmission gets better in quality and lower in price. I see this as a VERY serious long term threat to BSkyB's revenues and, by extension, the revenues of football clubs - most of which are heavily indebted and absolutely cannot afford to lose the Sky Sports money!

Sorry about going off the topic, but this is the way for the USA to award down its 9.0% unemployment rate. With the falling dollar vs foreign currency, business taxes (an oxymoron) will perform while the price of imports increase; and to spend money any where else other than paying bills and business stock investment would be uneconomic. Leverage is for any for any earnings per net assets greater than the company's liability interest rate, earnings are dived among fewer equity shares with greater minimum expense taken by greater liability amount. The FED likes lower debt/equity ratios as it gives a greater chance of TARP completely reimbursing the Treasury with interest with a greater book-asset/liability ratio; perhaps the debt/equity ratio limit should be 50%/50% as similar to the lower limit of buying stocks on margin requirement. Gold is Napoleon mercantilistic specie currency, and would only be applicable in a W2K type apocalypse. Some hedging against the team is in order (silver has an I but there is no I in team), but specie offers no contract to return interest or dividends--only capital gain/loss; and specie will ultimately perform similar to gold in 1981, the NASDAQ in 1999, and housing in 2006. Equity holding companies are a good thing because they encourage investment in equity (which fund investees' asset capital) and the holding company enjoys a dividend to another company tax which should be as low a the personal income dividend/capital-gain tax of 0%/15%.

@LessLunacy- What on god's green earth are you talking about?

less lunacy...more accuracy?
I'm guessing LL has posted that on the wrong blog forum? ;)

MathsForFun_1

I think that while you look for synergies, Murdoch is looking for world domination.

No matter what the Dirty Digger acquires, he is a failed billionaire. An oxymoron you say? Not when one considers that this person has singularly failed in his two main intentions, viz, the abolition of the BBC and the British royal family. These were his two main targets in the late 60s when he brought his smut to Britain. Yes, he's succeeded in dumbing down a large enough minority of Brits to ensure the continuance of successive right-wing governments of his choice. But is poor old Rupe happy?

No matter what the Dirty Digger acquires, he is a failed billionaire. An oxymoron you say? Not when one considers that this person has singularly failed in his two main intentions, viz, the abolition of the BBC and the British royal family. These were his two main targets in the late 60s when he brought his smut to Britain. Yes, he's succeeded in dumbing down a large enough minority of Brits to ensure the continuance of successive right-wing governments of his choice. But is poor old Rupe happy?

Red till dead
" Yes, he's succeeded in dumbing down a large enough minority of Brits"
Murdoch has certainly not done as good a job in the last 13 years as the Labour government, who with its constant ally the BBC, has dumbed down education and the populace in general - an example would be the last local election in Barnsley - can these 14,000 UK tribal deluded misfits be worse than any uneducated and deprived people in Bangladesh?
I think they are, as they seem incapable of learning from experience, let alone education.