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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, and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, 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
- 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 TimesThe Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. United Kingdom and Ireland The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. While (Western Australia)
- Northern Territory NewsNorthern Territory News is the major broadsheet paper in Australia's Northern Territory. It covers local, national, and world news as well as sports and business. The Sunday edition is called The Sunday Territorian. The paper is owned by media tycoon Rupe (Northern Territory)
- The AustralianThe Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Headquartered in Sydney, but with bureaux around Australia, it was founded in 1964, famously losing money for nearly thirty years. The Australian tread (Nationwide)
- UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly newspapers, published by News InternationalNews International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The company's major titles are published by two subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers. Times Newspapers Times Newspapers publishes t Ltd.
- News Group Newspapers Ltd.
- the tabloidA tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. This is the smaller of two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers, associated with higher-quality journalis The SunSee Sun (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word "Sun", and other newspapers known as "The Sun The Sun a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom, has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at
- the tabloidA tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. This is the smaller of two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers, associated with higher-quality journalis News of the World
- Times Newspapers Ltd.
- US newspapers and magazines
- Magazines
- Music
- Satellite
- BSkyB, United Kingdom (35% holding)
- DirecTV Group, North and South America
- DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider
- DirectTV Latin America
- Hughes Network Systems , satellite Internet
- Sky Italia , Italian satellite TV service
- Star TV, an Asian satellite TV service
- Sports
- 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.
- 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
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