News Corp (NWSA.O) expects to make its case to the British government for its proposed 7.8 billion-pound ($12.1 billion) bid for satellite broadbaster BSkyB (BSY.L), according to a memo seen by Reuters on Monday. Britain's culture minister is considering whether such a merger would concentrate too much media power in the hands of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which also owns the mass-selling Sun and News of the World tabloids and the Times newspaper. The country's communications regulator Ofcom has sent a report to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the likely effect on media plurality in Britain of the proposed merger. The report has not yet been published. News Corp had been due to brief Britain's parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Wednesday but a memo sent out by the committee on Monday said the meeting was cancelled.
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