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Ironically, Marco Polo House was later home to ITV Digital, another failed Sky competitor

ITV Digital was put there by Sky, who were a founding shareholder in the consortium that went to launch ONdigital without them.

Sky also had an interest in QVC UK I believe, hence them being installed.

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that's a rather simplistic view of how such a merger should work, though it appears that Murdoch wasted no time to ensure that is how it was going to be

Murdoch had the blessing of the majority of the shareholders of BSB to go ahead and strip the combined BSkyB to the bone. Their primary motivation was seeing a return on their investment and Murdoch had the more viable of the two models.

It absolutely became a Murdoch controlled outfit overnight.