Vivendi's Licoys Named To Bskyb's Board

Business Wire, Oct 13, 1999

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999--

British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (NYSE:BSY), the UK-based pay-television broadcasting group, yesterday received notification from BSB Holdings Limited that, as a beneficial owner of not less than 7.5% of the issued share capital of BSkyB, they have exercised their right under the Articles of Association of the Company to appoint Eric Georges Licoys as a non-executive Director of BSkyB, with immediate effect.

Eric Licoys is Chief Operating Officer of Vivendi and Chairman and CEO of HAVAS. He is also a director of a number of other major Vivendi Group Companies or companies in which Vivendi has a substantial interest including: Canal , USFilter, Compagnie Generale d'Immobilier et de services (the group's real estate holding company) and CGEA (the group's waste and transport business). He is also a director of Intermediate Capital Group PLC.

BSkyB ADRs (each equal to six ordinary shares) trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BSY. BSkyB ordinary shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange, and can be accessed on Reuters under the symbol BSY.L, and on Quotron and Bloomberg under the symbol BSY. Additional information is available on BSkyB's home page: http://www.skynow.co.uk.