James Murdoch to chair Sky Deutschland James Murdoch has been promoted to the position of chairman of Sky Deutschland marking the latest stage in the rehabilitation of Rupert Murdoch's son as he moves back into the senior ranks of the media mogul's empire. The German pay-TV operator, in which Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox has a majority stake, made the announcement late on Thursday. James Murdoch had been appointed a member of Sky Deutschland's supervisory board in April following a period when his power base within the London operations of his father's media operations had been damaged in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. In 2007, James Murdoch had stepped up from running BSkyB, the UK satellite operator, to overseeing all of the European and Asian businesses of News Corp, his father's media group. However, early in 2012, amid police inquiries into illegal journalistic techniques, James Murdoch ceded the chairmanship of News International, the media group's UK newspaper arm. James Murdoch, who is deputy chief operating officer at Twenty-First Century Fox, replaces Chase Carey at Sky Deutschland, who has served as chairman at the German pay-TV company since 2010. Mr Carey remains on Sky Deutschland's supervisory board and as chief operating officer at 21st Century Fox.