News Corporation

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

The holdings of News Corp include:

• Books
  • HarperCollins book publishing company
  • ReganBooks
  • Zondervan
• Newspapers
  • Australian newspapers
    • the Herald-Sun
    • The Daily Telegraph
    • The Australian
  • UK newspapers
    • the tabloid The Sun
    • the broadsheet The Times
  • 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
  • Foxtel, Australia
  • Hughes Electronics, North and South America
    • DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider
    • DirectTV Latin America
    • DirecWay, Satellite Internet service provider
    • PanAmSat
    • 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
• 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.
  • FX, 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

External Links

• News Corporation website
• Complete list of News Corp's holdings - Columbia Journalism Review

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