Daily Mail Wrote:David Cameron visited News International chief Rebekah Brooks days after transferring responsibility for her boss's takeover bid for BSkyB, it was revealed today.
The Prime Minister went to Mrs Brooks' home in Oxfordshire, which is near to his constituency property, over the Christmas holiday.
The visit came just days after a Government crisis over the BSkyB deal when Business Secretary Vince Cable was caught out attacking Rupert Murdoch.
The minister was left humiliated after being caught on tape David Cameron visited News International chief Rebekah Brooks days after transferring responsibility for her boss's takeover bid for BSkyB, it was revealed today.
The Prime Minister went to Mrs Brooks' home in Oxfordshire, which is near to his constituency property, over the Christmas holiday.
The visit came just days after a Government crisis over the BSkyB deal when Business Secretary Vince Cable was caught out attacking Rupert Murdoch.
The minister was left humiliated after being caught on tape claiming 'he had declared war' on Mr Murdoch and adding 'I think we are going to win'.

Guardian Wrote:Downing Street today insisted any Christmas meeting between David Cameron and James Murdoch would have no impact on the government's handling of News Corp's bid to take full control of BSkyB.

The prime minister's spokesman said Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, would decide "alone" whether to refer to the Competition Commission News Corp's bid to buy the 61% of BSkyB it does not own.

Downing Street, which was shaken on Friday by Andy Coulson's resignation, faces renewed questions about its links with News Corp after the Independent disclosed today that James Murdoch met the prime minister for dinner over Christmas at the Oxfordshire home of the News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks. The dinner with Murdoch, the Europe and Asia chairman of News Corp, took place days after Cameron stripped Vince Cable of his powers over media takeovers and handed them to Hunt.

The Guardian revealed last week that Cameron had been a guest of Brooks over the Christmas period. A Downing Street source denied last week that the meeting had taken place on Christmas Day, but declined to confirm or deny whether the prime minister had met Brooks over the Christmas period.

Today the prime minister's spokesman declined to confirm whether Cameron had met James Murdoch or whether he would speak to his father, Rupert, the News Corp chairman and chief executive, at the Davos World Economic Forum this weekend. The spokesman said: "Clearly, the prime minister does meet with people from the media from time to time. That is not at all unusual for prime ministers."

Downing Street said Hunt would abide by the law, which says he has to decide on his own, in a quasi-judicial capacity and without reference to other ministers, whether to refer the BSkyB bid. It is understood that Ofcom has recommended that the bid should be referred.

The Downing Street spokesman said: "On the bid process ... the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is considering the report and he makes the decision in a quasi-judicial role. It is his decision alone."

Asked how any meeting with James Murdoch might affect the decision, the spokesman added: "It would have no bearing on that decision, which is a decision taken by Jeremy Hunt and Jeremy Hunt alone."

(25-01-2011 11:47 )DanniPandemos Wrote:  Who the landlord is isn't really important when it comes to Sky.

Ofcom require them to operate an open platform and provide carriage to any broadcaster that meets the relevant technical and regulatory requirements and which can secure an EPG slot.