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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 and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NWC
Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, Australia, and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, News Corporation is now a U.S. company re-incorporated in the State of Delaware after a majority of shareholders approved the move. This reincorporation was completed on November 12, 2004.
The holdings of News Corporation include:
- Books
- HarperCollins book publishing company
- ReganBooks
- Zondervan Christian book Publisher.
- Newspapers
- Australian newspapers
- The Herald Sun (Victoria)
- MX (Melbourne CBD)
- 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 'ex-broadsheet' (Now in tabloid form) The Times
- the broadsheet The Times Educational Supplement
- the broadsheet The Times Literary Supplement
- News Group Newspapers Ltd.
- US newspapers and magazines
- the New York Post
- Australian newspapers
- Magazines
- InsideOut
- SmartSource
- TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
- Weekly Standard
- Music
- Satellite
- BSkyB, United Kingdom (35% holding)
- DirecTV Group, North and South America
- DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider
- DirectTV Latin America
- Hughes Network Systems
- DirecWay, satellite Internet service provider
- Foxtel, Australia (25% holding)
- Sky Italia, Italian satellite TV service
- Star TV, an Asian satellite TV service
- Sports
- National Rugby League
- 20% each of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers
- 40% of Staples Center
- 9.8% of the Los Angeles Lakers
- 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 Soccer Channel, a United States digital cable network specializing mainly in soccer.
- Fox Sports en Español , a Spanish-language North American cable sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to a Latin American audience.
- Fox Sports en Latinoamérica , a Mexico-based Latin American satellite and cable sports network.
- Foxtel, Australia's largest satellite and cable pay TV provider, a 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 satellite/cable news channel (part of BSkyB)
- Sky Sports UK-based satellite/cable sports channel plex (part of BSkyB)
- Sky Movies UK-based satellite/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 official site
- Ketupa - News Corporation profile with history and holdings
- Complete list of News Corp's holdings - Columbia Journalism Review
- OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
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