News Corporation

News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) is one of the world's largest media conglomerates. Its chief executive officer is Rupert Murdoch, one of the most influential and controversial media tycoons in the world.

Holdings

Books

HarperCollins book publishing company
ReganBooks
Zondervan Christian book Publisher.

Newspapers

Australia
The Australian (Nationwide)
The Weekend Australian (Nationwide)
The Courier-Mail (Queensland)
The Sunday Mail (Queensland)
The Cairns Post (Cairns, Queensland)
The Gold Coast Bulletin (Gold Coast, Queensland)
The Townsville Bulletin (Townsville, Queensland)
The Daily Telegraph (New South Wales)
The Sunday Telegraph (New South Wales)
The Herald Sun (Victoria)
The Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria)
The Weekly Times (Victoria)
MX (Melbourne CBD)
The Geelong Advertiser (Geelong, Victoria)
The Advertiser (South Australia)
The Sunday Mail (South Australia)
The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
The Mercury (Tasmania)
The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)
Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)
Fiji
Fiji Times (National)
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National)
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 compact form) The Times
the broadsheet The Times Educational Supplement
the broadsheet The Times Literary Supplement
US newspapers and magazines
the tabloid New York Post

TV

Broadcast

Fox Broadcasting Company a US-wide broadcast television network
Fox Television Stations Group

Satellite television

BSkyB, United Kingdom (36.8% holding).
DirecTV Group, North and South America (33.9% holding)
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
Sky Latin America Brazil and Mexico counterpart to DirecTV Latin America

Cable

Fox Movie Channel, an all-movie channel that airs commercial-free movies from 20th Century Fox film library
Fox News Channel, a 24-hour news channel
Fox Sports Net, a chain of US regional cable television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local channels 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 Espa?ol, a Spanish-language North American cable sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to a Latin American audience.
Fox Sports en Latinoam?rica, a Mexico-based Latin American satellite and cable sports network.
Foxtel (25%), 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

Internet

MySpace - Social networking website
IGN Entertainment - Internet entertainment portal
News.com.au - Australian-orientated news website

Other assets

News Datacom - Conditional access technology

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Media conglomerate: A media conglomerate describes companies that own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet. A conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of seemingly unrelated businesses. It is questionable whether media compani...

Chief executive officer: :For other uses, see Chief Executive (disambiguation)...

Rupert Murdoch: Keith Rupert Murdoch (born on March 11, 1931), is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the world's largest and most influential media corporations. He is one of the few chief executives of any multinational med...