BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch says media reports suggesting he plans to leave the pay-TV company are false.
The Mail on Sunday reported on January 21 that Murdoch planned to leave the company in the summer to take up a role at his father Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Mr Murdoch was speaking to reporters after BSkyB met forecasts with a 10% rise in first-half revenues to £2.2 billion. Pre-tax profits fell to £356m from £390m in the same period last year, partly due to weaker television advertising and investment in its new broadband service.
The company said it had added 183,000 net TV subscribers in the second quarter, below the average forecast of 190,000.
BSkyB, which launched a broadband service last July, said it had connected 193,000 customers in the first half, or by the end of December, and had 259,000 customers by the end of January.
The company had 465,000 digital subscribers in the Republic of Ireland by the end of 2006. This was up 24,000 compared with the previous three months.
