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The sky b and all of its cash. >> aside from the bbc, b sky b is the biggest broadcaster in the uk. >> if you want premium tv, that's where you get it from. it controls things like the premier league. it has the deals for all the big hollywood studio movie rights. >> the murdochs already owned 40% of it. they wanted to take full ownership of it. >> rupert has this desire to make b sky b into a copy of fox news and full control would give them much more scope to shape b sky b as they wanted to. >> the kind of control over what people were consuming and watching and believing that was really imp...

Cover-up boosted the whole project to uncover the truth. >> we now have allegations that actually this was something that was pervasive at the newspaper. >> andy coulson has denied those allegations. >> as more stories come out, more evidence comes out and the lawsuits start piling up from really big names, sienna miller. >> i was relentlessly pursued almost daily. >> steve kugan. >> he had my password and phone account and a number of personal details of mine. >> hugh grant. >> why do we have no regulation at all that's effective for tabloid press? >> and for the murdoch company to still try ...

Transition really into his father's chair. >> and james then is very much acting as if he's going to be the one. words start circulating that he's even building his own shadow executive team that he can install at the top of the company. >> why do i believe we need to change direction is a matter of urgency because we have analog attitudes in the digital age. the result is lost opportunities for enterprise, free choice and commercial investment. >> in many ways james spearheading this effort to buy b sky b is a perfect fit because james is not interested in the newspapers. he's interested in d...

James in this moment. he comes in from australia. he's tanned and rested and rupert is immediately put at ease. his boy is back. rupert stands down. for the time being, james survives. >> the murdoch family have closed their flagship sunday newspaper, abandoned their bid for bskyb, yet the political and commercial fallout from this scandal is nowhere near done. >> for rupert, if all this wasn't bad enough, he can't even protect the one person he did seem to try to protect and that's rebekah brooks. >> rebekah brooks, chief executive at "news international," has resigned from her position. >> t...

System, and it exposes all of these connections between politics, the police, the media and at the center of it is one family, literally issuing orders from one person. that can change the whole orientation and politics and trajectory of a country, and we experienced that through phone hacking. >> but in the end, they make a couple of changes in their corporate structure, they announce they're going to change their ways, and rupert emerges as still the most powerful media mogul in the world. >> by the end of the hacking scandal, james is a complete pariah. his effort to buy bskyb failed. and i...