Offer Update

Sports Internet Group PLC
29 June 2000


Not for release, publication or distribution in or into the
United States of America, Canada, Australia or Japan

Recommended offer by Goldman Sachs International on behalf of
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc for Sports Internet Group
plc

FIRST CLOSING DATE

In connection with the recommended offer made by Goldman Sachs
International on behalf of British Sky Broadcasting Group  plc
('BSkyB')  for  all  of  the issued share  capital  of  Sports
Internet Group plc ('SIG'), BSkyB announces that, as  at  3.00
p.m. on Wednesday 28 June 2000, the first closing date of  the
Offer,  BSkyB had received valid acceptances of the  Offer  in
respect  of  a  total  of 12,072,576 SIG Shares,  representing
approximately  34.1  per cent. of the  existing  issued  share
capital of SIG.

As  described  in the Offer Document dated 7  June  2000,  the
shareholder  directors of SIG have undertaken  to  accept  the
Offer  in  respect  of  their entire holdings  which  together
amount  to approximately 51.4 per cent. of the existing issued
capital  of  SIG.  As  at 3 p.m. on 28  June  2000  BSkyB  had
received  acceptances in relation to 2,580,000 SIG  Shares  to
which these undertakings relate, representing 7.3 per cent. of
the issued share capital of SIG.

As  announced by the Office of Fair Trading on 16  June  2000,
the  period  for its consideration of the proposed acquisition
by BSkyB of SIG will expire on 12 July 2000.

The Offer has been extended for a further 14 days and will
remain open until 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday 12 July 2000.

Included in the above level of acceptances are acceptances  in
respect  of 300 SIG Shares held by Credit Suisse (UK)  Limited
which  is  deemed to be acting in concert with BSkyB  for  the
purposes  of  the  City  Code. Save  as  disclosed  herein  or
otherwise   previously  disclosed  in  accordance   with   the
requirements  of  the  City Code and in  the  Offer  Document,
neither  BSkyB nor any person acting, or deemed to be  acting,
in  concert  with BSkyB, held any SIG Shares (or  rights  over
such  shares)  prior to the offer period or  has  acquired  or
agreed  to acquire any SIG Shares (or rights over such shares)
during  the offer period and no acceptances of the Offer  have
been received from any person acting or deemed to be acting in
concert with BSkyB.

Enquiries:

Goldman Sachs International        020 7774 1000

Richard Campbell-Breeden
Francis Crispino

Definitions used in the Offer Document have the same  meanings
in this announcement, unless otherwise indicated.

The  Offer  is not being made, directly or indirectly,  in  or
into,   or   by  the  use  of  the  mails  or  any  means   or
instrumentality (including, without limitation, telephonically
or  electronically) of interstate or foreign commerce  of,  or
any  facilities of a national securities exchange of, the  US,
or  in  or into Canada, Australia or Japan and the Offer  will
not   be  capable  of  acceptance  by  any  such  use,  means,
instrumentality or facilities or from within the  US,  Canada,
Australia  or Japan. Doing so may render invalid any purported
acceptance. Accordingly, copies of this announcement  are  not
being,  and  must  not  be,  mailed  or  otherwise  forwarded,
distributed  or  sent  in  or into or  from  the  US,  Canada,
Australia or Japan and all persons receiving this announcement
(including nominees, trustees or custodians) must not mail  or
otherwise forward, distribute or send it into the US,  Canada,
Australia  or Japan. The New BSkyB Shares have not  been,  and
will  not be, registered under the US Securities Act of  1933,
as  amended.  Furthermore, the relevant  clearances  have  not
been,  and will not be obtained from the securities commission
of  any  province  of Canada, nor any city  or  prefecture  of
Japan.  No prospectus In relation to the New BSkyB Shares  has
been,  or will be, lodged with or registered by the Australian
Securities  Commission. Accordingly,  except  pursuant  to  an
exemption,  if  available,  from any  applicable  registration
requirements  or otherwise in compliance with  all  applicable
law, the New BSkyB Shares may not be offered, sold, resold  or
delivered, directly or indirectly, in or into the US,  Canada,
Australia or Japan.

Goldman Sachs International, which is regulated in the  United
Kingdom  by  The Securities and Futures Authority Limited,  is
acting for BSkyB and no one else in connection with the  Offer
and  will  not be responsible to anyone other than  BSkyB  for
providing  the  protections afforded to customers  of  Goldman
Sachs  International nor for giving advice in relation to  the
Offer.