Company Profile For British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (Sky) and its subsidiaries operate a pay television service in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as broadband and telephony services. The Company commissions and acquires programming to broadcast on its own channels, and supplies certain of those channels to cable operators for retransmission to their subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Company retails channels (both its own and third parties) to direct-to-home (DTH) customers and certain of its own channels to a limited number of digital subscriber line (DSL) subscribers. It also makes three of its channels available free-to-air through the United Kingdom digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform, as part of the branded Freeview offering. As of June 30, 2009, there were 9,442,000 DTH customers to its television service, and 4,271,000 subscribers of the cable operators to whom the Company supplies certain of its channels, in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

BRIEF: For the three months ended 30 September 2009, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc's revenue increased 10% to £1.38B. Net income increased 75% to £128M. Revenues reflect increased income from Retail subscription, Wholesale Subscription and Other business division. Net income also reflects decrease in subscription management & supply chain, lower administration expenses and decrease in impairment of available-for-sale investment.