There is a huge lack of balance in UK media with 8,000 BBC left-wing journalists far outnumbering all national print journalists.

[on the BBC] A massive taxpayer-funded mouthpiece for tiny circulation leftist Guardian.

As British television is transformed by this new, multi-channel diversity, I believe the consequent new freedoms will bring forth a television system of choice and quality, the like of which has never been seen. (Speaking in 1989, the year he launched Sky Television in the UK)

The socially mobile are portrayed as uncaring; businessmen as crooks; money-making is to be despised. As a result, in the values it exudes, British television has been an integral part of the British disease, hostile to the sort of culture needed to cure that disease. The fact that those who control British TV have always worked in a non-market environment, protected by public subsidy and state privilege, is a major reason why they are innately unsympathetic to markets and competition.

Much of what passes for quality on British television really is no more than a reflection of the values of the narrow elite which controls it and which has always thought that its tastes are synonymous with quality.

I believe in competition. The way to control the market is to have competition. If someone goes bust, too bad.

Our underlying philosophy is that all media are one.