Sky Profits From Surge in U.K. and Europe Customer Numbers
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Sky Plc signed up 242,000 customers in the third quarter, a 70 percent increase on a year earlier, helped by demand for its NOW TV Internet service. The shares rose the most since October 2013.
Rupert Murdoch’s European pay-TV provider said in a statement Tuesday that nine-month sales rose 5 percent and operating profit 20 percent, boosted by the surge in customer numbers across Europe.