BSkyB Announces 1000 New Jobs

BSkyB Announces 1000 New Jobs

LONDON, January 28/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UK broadcaster BSkyB has announced the creation of 1000 new jobs as its latest financial results for the half year to December 31st 2008 showed a rise in both turnover and profits.

The jobs come as part of Sky's continued efforts to drive the take up of its High Definition television offering which now stands at 31 dedicated channels. In a separate move Sky is dropping the price of its HD set top box to GBP49.

Signalling its confidence in the future BSkyB also increased its dividend to shareholders by 5% to 7.5p.

The details of today's announcement are outlined in an interview with Jeremy Darroch, CEO, and Andrew Griffith, CFO.

The interviews and transcripts are available now on http://w3.cantos.com/british_sky_broadcasting.

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Source: BSkyB

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