News Corporation

News Corporation is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. Its major shareholder and managing director is Rupert Murdoch. It is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, Australia, News Corporation has commenced moving to the United States, after shareholders unanimously voted to move to the United States. This is expected to be completed on November 12 2004.

The holdings of News Corporation include:

• Books
  • HarperCollins book publishing company
  • ReganBooks
  • Zondervan
• Newspapers
  • Australian newspapers
    • The Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • The Daily Telegraph (New South Wales)
    • The Courier-Mail (Queensland)
    • The Advertiser (South Australia)
    • The Mercury (Tasmania)
    • The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
    • Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
    • The Australian (Nationwide)
  • UK newspapers, published by News International Ltd.
    • News Group Newspapers Ltd.
      • the tabloid The Sun
      • the tabloid News of the World
    • Times Newspapers Ltd.
      • the broadsheet The Sunday Times
      • the broadsheet The Times
      • the broadsheet The Times Education Supplement
      • the broadsheet The Times Literary Supplement
  • US newspapers and magazines
    • the New York Post
• Magazines
  • InsideOut
  • SmartSource
  • TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
  • Weekly Standard
• Music
  • Mushroom Records
    • Festival Records
• Satellite
  • BSkyB, United Kingdom (35% holding)
  • DirecTV Group, North and South America
    • DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider
      • DirecWay, Satellite Internet service provider
    • DirectTV Latin America
    • Hughes Network Systems, satellite Internet
  • Sky Italia, Italian satellite TV service
  • Star TV, an Asian satellite TV service
• Sports
  • National Rugby League
• Studios
  • 20th Century Fox film production company
  • Fox Searchlight
  • Fox Television Studios
  • Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
  • Fox Studios Baja, Rosarito, Baja California
• TV
  • Fox Network a US-wide broadcast television network
  • Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news channel
  • Fox Sports Net, a chain of regional cable television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local chanels include "Fox Sports Southwest", "Fox Sports Bay Area", etc.
  • Fox Sports World, a North American digital cable network specializing in sporting events outside North America.
  • Fox Sports en Español, a Spanish-language North American cable sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to a Latin American audience.
  • Foxtel, one of the two major Australian satellite and cable pay TV networks, joint venture with Telstra and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited
  • FX Networks, a cable network broadcasting reruns of programming previously shown on other channels, but recently creating its own programming, including the Emmy Award-winning program The Shield.
  • National Geographic Channel
  • SPEED Channel
  • Sky One A UK-based general entertainment channel (part of BSkyB)
  • Sky News UK-based cable news channel (part of BSkyB)
  • Sky Sports UK-based cable sports channel plex (part of BSkyB)
  • Sky Movies UK-based cable movie channel plex (part of BSkyB)
  • Sky Box Office UK-based on-demand movie channel (part of BSkyB)
• Other assets
  • News Digital Systems - Conditonal access technology

External links

• News Corporation website (http://www.newscorp.com/)
• Complete list of News Corp's holdings (http://www.cjr.org/owners/newscorp.asp) - Columbia Journalism Review
• profile of News Corp's history and holdings (http://www.ketupa.net/murdoch.htm) - Ketupa.net

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