NDS Announces Receipt of Final Court Approval of Scheme

NEW YORK and LONDON – NDS Group Limited (“NDS”) announced that earlier yesterday, the High Court of Justice in England and Wales approved the remaining elements of the scheme of arrangement pursuant to which News Corporation and two subsidiaries of funds advised by Permira Advisers LLP will take NDS private. The scheme is expected to become fully effective on February 5, 2009, upon the registration of a copy of the court order with the Registrar of Companies in England and Wales and the last day for trading in ADSs is expected to be February 4, 2009.

About NDS
NDS, a privately owned company whose controlling shareholders will, upon the scheme becoming fully effective, be News Corporation and the Permira Newcos, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operators and content providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.

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