The embattled News Corp scion’s decision over his future as chairman of BSkyB is balancing on a “fine line,” The Daily Telegraph reports. Murdoch’s position will become tenuous if Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee censures him for not fully investigating the phone hacking that went on during his tenure as the head of News Corp’s UK media arm, News International. The committee’s findings are expected shortly after Easter. A critical finding could lead regulator Ofcom to extend its investigation into whether Murdoch is a “fit and proper” person to oversee the pay TV company. Per The Telegraph, concerns have been stirred at the board level of BSkyB given that negative report findings could mean Murdoch would be forced to leave with a tarnished reputation. Murdoch recently resigned as executive chairman of News International and has also stepped down from the boards of GlaxoSmithKline and Sotheby’s. At the time of his News International resignation, Murdoch, who had moved to New York, said, “I look forward to expanding my commitment to News Corporation’s international television businesses and other key initiatives across the Company.” Meanwhile, two key independent directors are set to leave the BSkyB board and a third is shifting into a non-independent role, leaving three vacancies to be filled, The Financial Times reports. New independent members could undermine the board’s current unanimous support for Murdoch, the newspaper says.


It’s a case of when jump comes to push.
I feel sorry for this guy. sure, it is horrible to be hacked, but what great inside stories they shared with readers! we would never had known that charles wanted to be a tampoon or that diana was called squigy and had a lover, great stuff, and it kept going. thank you piers morgan, other editors, and the murdochs.
james should have seen this coming and shouldnt have shot his mouth off about the bbc and ofcom at the mctaggart lectures.he was set up back then as this was bound to come back and bite him in the arse which, now it has. He’s a pup and not ready to swim with the sharks as yet. His dad didnt have a choice though to give him the rope and to then see what he did with it – to run or to hang himself. He done the latter. For Rupert to have a pop at the bbc and ofcom is understandable but for James who’s fresh out of nappies and still dealing with spots on his face, it’s a bit much to be spitting such venom. I’m not sorry for him. He did the same thing in India some years ago and accused the cable operators of being theives and they went after him with a shovel and nearly had his business in India shuttered. Maybe he will learn from this experience but i think his arrogance is now too deeply entrenched.