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More than his father's son: As James Murdoch returns to Sky, will a renewed Murdoch takeover bid follow?

on Jan 29, 2016 | 0 comments

By Paul Connew

‘James Murdoch is to make a surprise return to the helm of Sky’ was how Sky News itself announced their old boss’s return to the chairman’s chair.

Really? Well, no surprise to me as I’d forecast it in a Drum column last year, along with the prediction that James Murdoch’s restored influence at the top of 21st Century Fox as chief executive would lead to a renewed bid to fully takeover Britain’s biggest pay-TV broadcaster.

It was hardly coincidence that the announcement of James’s return – which will inevitably be controversial – was delivered to the London Stock Exchange Read full story ›

Source: The Drum