News Corporation

News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) {{nyse|NWS}} 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

Magazines

• InsideOut
• SmartSource
• TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
• Weekly Standard

Music

• Festival Mushroom Records

Sports

• 50% of National Rugby League (Australia and New Zealand)
• majority ownership of the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys rugby league teams.
• 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

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 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 (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