Sorry this is a hit and run as I have a doctor's appointment later and have to visit an elderly neighbor to sort out her TV as we are about to go through our digital switchover.
Latest news is that James Murdoch has resigned as Chairman of the BSkyB board although he will remain a member. This is obviously another punishment from daddy for **cking up the News of the World and the subsequent phonegate scandal.
He said then (when he resigned from News International which publishes the Sun, Times and Sunday Times) he had moved to New York to work on News Corp's pay-TV business.News Corp owns almost 40% of BSkyB and had wanted to buy the whole of the firm, but withdrew its bid under intense political pressure.
Sources told Robert Peston, BBC business editor, that it was James Murdoch's decision to leave and he did so in an attempt to pre-empt further criticism.
