Brian Roberts, the chief executive of Comcast, Rupert Murdoch and Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of Sky TIM ANDERSON/SKYThe launch of the broadcaster Sky from a portable building nearly 30 years ago was “the biggest and most dangerous gamble” of Rupert Murdoch’s business career. At a ceremony yesterday to rename the Sky studios in Isleworth, west London, as The Keith Rupert Murdoch Building, Mr Murdoch said: “We wanted to give the public freedom of choice and it was worth all the risks.”Mr Murdoch is chairman of News Corporation, owner of The Times. Sky was sold to Comcast in September.

Source: The Times December 13, 2018 00:00 UTC