Demand soars for sky services on the go
GROWING numbers of viewers want to watch their favourite shows while on the move via smartphones and tablets, lifting sales at BSkyB.
A record 309,000 signed up to its Sky Go Extra service taking the total user numbers to 1.48 million.
Analysts think it may end up with more than 57 per cent because minority shareholders may offer to sell in the current market turmoil
In the three months to the end of September the company added 46,000 new TV customers and 75,000 broadband customers as total customer numbers reached 15.5 million.
Group sales for the period rose 6 per cent to £1.9billion and operating profits rose by 11 per cent to £316million.
Sky, about to launch a new series of supermarket comedy Trollied, attracted 4.1 million viewers of its Ryder Cup coverage.
BSkyB is 39 per cent owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox and has bid to buy Fox’s 57 per cent stake in Sky Deutschland.
Analysts think it may end up with more than 57 per cent because minority shareholders may offer to sell in the current market turmoil.