MUMBAI: UK pay TV platform BSkyB CEO James Murdoch is believed to be leaving the firm later this year to take up a position at US media conglomerate News Corp.

A report in the Mail on Sunday says that Murdoch will be replaced at Sky by the head of Sky Italia, Tom Mockridge. Reports add that News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is understood to have wanted his son to return to America at the end of last year.

However James wanted to remain at Sky at least until this summer to see through the introduction of both broadband and high definition television, both of which were projects he instigated.