Is there a bigger shower of cunts in the country?

A fair point.

Can't wait until Murdoch gets control of all of BskyB at the end of this week

I don't get to see channel 4 news as much as i used to, but i caught it tonight. proper journalism!

 

the worst thing that could happen is if news/journalists get tarnished with the same brush as murdoch's editor cunts.

 

I suspect that's exactly what's going to happen though, because those who oppose murdoch and the practices of his companies have known exactly what he's about ever since the sun fabricated stories of liverpool fans pickpocketing the dead and dying at hillsborough.

 

people will be angry about the dowler hacking for a wee while, then forget. In the meantime, murdoch will have bought up more of the industry and sooner rather than later, there will be no honesty or integrity left. just cunts writing what they're told to because it sells papers.

 

the reason it will be allowed to happen is because most people think that's what all journalists already are.

 

when things like this happen, the public allow it to turn into a 'tabloids/hacks are scum' story, rather than 'rich megalomaniacal cunts controlling press and politicians are scum'

Several big companies pulling their advertising from NOTW.

Lots of people on Twitter bombarding companies that advertise in the NOTW asking if they will be reconsidering spending any more money advertising with them.  Ruper Murdoch will start taking this very seriously if it affects his income.

 

EDIT: http://www.pint.org.uk/notw.html

News at Ten have just alleged that News International have passed emails to Police containing evidence that they systematically and repeatedly paid Police for information while Rebecca Wade was Editor.

 

The staggering thing is that all the evidence for the hacking comes from just one Private Investigators seized notes, surely News International employed several such individuals who have now had years and years to destroy any evidence while the Met Police have fucked about and avoid the case.  Their ineptitude in all of this must verge on incompetence if not out right corruption.  They should be hammered for this and with so much of New International closely entwined with both main Political Parties and esp David Cameron the political fallout will be interesting to see.

News at Ten have just alleged that News International have passed emails to Police containing evidence that they systematically and repeatedly paid Police for information while Rebecca Wade was Editor.

 

The staggering thing is that all the evidence for the hacking comes from just one Private Investigators seized notes, surely News International employed several such individuals who have now had years and years to destroy any evidence while the Met Police have fucked about and avoid the case.  Their ineptitude in all of this must verge on incompetence if not out right corruption.  They should be hammered for this and with so much of New International closely entwined with both main Political Parties and esp David Cameron the political fallout will be interesting to see.

 

I don't imagine there will be any proper political fallout. Basically, there is criminality from some journalists, editors, police and politicians.

 

Who can investigate that and reach a balanced conclusion that benefits the public when all sectors are potentially corrupted or in collusion at various points?

 

The only people who can expose these things are responsible, investigative journos. But the finances are currently squeezing such people out of the industry completely.

 

~The petition for a public inquiry: http://hackinginquiry.org/

Good to see the papers getting a spoonful of their own medicine.  Although I doubt Murdoch will even get a taste of it.

 

Build them up, build them up, build them up, then once they think they're untouchable - BOOYA! - knock the fuckers down!

Can't wait until Murdoch gets control of all of BskyB at the end of this week

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14045715

 

 

Interesting piece from today's Independent.

 

Matthew Norman: Now is the moment to stop Murdoch

It beggars all belief that the BSkyB takeover might still be permitted. It will be a staggering disgrace, after this, if it is

 

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

 

It has many villains and one or two heroes, while its chief victim lies cocooned from the shock that has winded even the world-weariest media cynic like a kick to the solar plexus. But the story of Milly Dowler's mobile phone speaks of infinitely more than the posthumous violation of a murdered schoolgirl by Rupert Murdoch's demons and the visceral revulsion that this has induced.

 

This is an amorality tale of systemic corruption as insidious, deep-rooted, all-embracing, diseased and destructive as any known to a modern Western democracy. To understand how it came to this – how prime ministers and our premier police force became the enablers of News Corporation's abundant wickedness – you must go back several decades.

 

When Margaret Thatcher made her Faustian pact with Mr Murdoch in the 1980s, granting him his every heart's desire in return for his unwavering slavish support, she hastened the creation of the monster we see revealed in all its gruesome hideosity today.

 

In general terms, she gifted him the preposterous media market share he expertly parlayed into a stranglehold over the political elite. In a country without a written constitution, bereft of checks and balances and devoid of oversight, the levers of power are there to be seized by the most ruthless buccaneer in town. This he did with wonted dark genius, coaxing and cajoling, bullying and bribing, to inculcate the near universally received wisdom that without his approval, no party can be elected or prosper in power for long. Once Thatcher had established the precedent of obeisance, it was rigidly and cringingly adhered to thereafter by Mr Tony Blair, the successor but one she begat, and now by his self-styled heir David Cameron.

 

Specifically, meanwhile, she politicised the police by using them as a political truncheon at Wapping as with the simultaneous miners' strike. In so doing, she placed them in Mr Murdoch's pocket, where they have snugly remained ever since.

 

Those scouring yesterday's Sun for a full account of the Milly Dowler obscenity will have been disappointed by a page two report barely bigger than the nipples on the facing page. But those who ploughed on to the centre spread found a nicely-timed reminder of the unholy trinity at work. "On Thursday," ran the taster for the Sun's 16th Police Bravery Awards, "Prime Minister David Cameron will welcome the 59 nominees to Number 10 before a glittering awards ceremony at The Savoy." Glittering indeed. How could it be otherwise when the Murdoch press, the police and the PM come together to celebrate the tripartite partnership forged at Wapping?

 

If the juxtaposition of "police" and "bravery" in a News Corp context acquires a viciously satirical ring, it would trivialise this affair to harp on about the pitiful performance of John Yates, whose primary offence, one likes to think, was naively accepting the assurances of colleagues too timid to risk the wrath of the hand that feeds. Similarly, it feels almost banal to dwell on Rebekah Brooks, whose tenure as News Corp chief executive might not survive a return to a police interview room for the first time since then-husband Ross Kemp, TV's Hardest Man, dobbed her in to the fuzz during a domestic.

 

The details of who knew what and when are as ghoulishly fascinating as they are undeniably significant. But fixating on the personnel risks obscuring the grander portrait of a system so dominated in absentia by its unconstitutional monarch – two-bit politicians come and go while Murdoch, like the Queen, abides – that its nominal leaders quail in mortal terror of his wrath.

 

So does everyone else, from the Met upwards. The Press Complaints Commission is the industry's eunuch, while the Tory chair of the Commons media select committee, John Wittingdale, tells us he admires no one in the media as much as Rupert Murdoch. One committee member, Labour's Tom Watson, has been utterly heroic on phone-hacking, in starkest contrast to his leader Ed Miliband – every inch as craven as Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State whose rampant personal ambition dovetails so cutely with the PM's wishes over Murdoch's acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in BSkyB.

 

If Mr Watson's magnificent example inspired others to conquer their fear, we would be on the cusp of a revolution. Just as in the immediate aftermath of MPs' expenses, mass public fury prises open a window of opportunity. Today there is that tantalising sense that we no longer need to tolerate such Murdoch-Government axis powers' outrages as Mr Blair ceding policy on a euro referendum to him, and attending a party at Rupert's daughter's home on the arm of Mrs Brooks; Mr Cameron's covert Christmas kitchie sups at her Oxfordshire home, shortly before waving through the BSkyB deal and abandoning the greatest chance for penal reform in a generation on the say-so of The Sun; the Murdoch titles – The Times, to its eternal shame, alongside the red-tops – saving Mr Blair's hide over Dr Kelly's death in pursuit of its commercially-driven campaign to destroy the BBC.

 

I could go on and on cataloguing the Murdoch tentacles that spread everywhere, from the trivial granting of lucrative columns to semi-literate former ministers and retired coppers, to Mr Cameron's breathtaking misjudgement in hiring Andy Coulson as his media supremo. If the PM has discovered that the second iron rule of national life is that you cannot get into bed with Murdoch without one day waking to a nasty rash and an embarrassing discharge, he has always known that the first is this: whatever the battle, whatever the terrain and whatever the stakes, in the end Murdoch wins.

 

Today there is the hope, faint but seductive, of change. Public repugnance on this scale is a rare and precious force in a country beset by apathy. It fades very quickly, and must be harnessed and deployed before it does.

 

It would take cross-party unity on a scale seldom witnessed outside time of war, with all three leaders agreeing that this, finally, is the moment to take up Vince Cable's rallying cry and go to war with Murdoch to break his dominion. A full independent inquiry into News Corp's internal workings should be as automatic as one into the Met's scandalous collusion by lethargy. So, needless to add, should an instant reversal of the green light on the BSkyB deal. It beggars all belief that the take-over might still be permitted. It will be a staggering, transcendent disgrace, after this, if it is.

 

Murdoch has never been as vulnerable as today and, if allowed to wriggle free, never will be again. This is an historic opportunity for parliament to excise the most aggressive malignancy in the body politic these past three decades, or at the very least stop it growing.

 

Doing so would not mean that Milly Dowler did not die in vain. It would be insufferably glib to suggest that. But it would honour the memory of her name if something wonderful could be salvaged from an unspeakable tragedy that meant no more to Murdoch's minions, as ever working to the Fuhrer in whose image they are cast, than another opportunity to cash in.

Tom Watson MP is meeting Aamer Anwar tomorrow to discuss the new evidence that Coulson lied under oath at the Shagger Sheridan perjury trial. Coulson claimed not to be aware of payments being made to police.

 

Watson said he believes the evidence may make shagger's conviction unsound.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/parents-%27have-right-to-know-if-news-of-the-world-pervert-lives-next-door%27-201107054034/

Families of dead soldiers also phone-hacked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909

 

Jesus wept, it's open season on the NOTW! 

Tom Watson MP is meeting Aamer Anwar tomorrow to discuss the new evidence that Coulson lied under oath at the Shagger Sheridan perjury trial. Coulson claimed not to be aware of payments being made to police.

 

Watson said he believes the evidence may make shagger's conviction unsound.

 

So there may be a downside to this situation then? We get the Shagger Sheridan media circus in full swing again. 

Families of dead soldiers also phone-hacked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14052909

 

Jesus wept, it's open season on the NOTW! 

 

I can understand, if not condone why they hacked the phones of the parents of missing children etc, but what the fuck were they trying to unearth by hacking the phones of dead soldier's families? Bizarre.

What Im surprised to have been not mentioned more was that Cameron and his family spent time at Christmas with Rebekah Brooks and her family. She is also a close personal friend of the Blairs - it just shows how incestuous politics and wealthy London are.

Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World.

 

From the Guardian live blog.

This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.

 

In the past few days, claims have been made that the paper authorised hacking into the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the families of 7/7 bombing victims and bereaved military families.

 

Sky News said proceeds from the paper's last edition would be given to good causes.

 

In a statement made to staff, Mr Murdoch said the good things the News of the World does "have been sullied by behaviour that was wrong - indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company".

 

"The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself."

 

 

Fooking hell.....

 

Fucking Sunday Mail will be rubbing their hands. Would imagine that most Scottish NOTW readers would migrate to it instead. Murdoch must have been really concerned about the knock on effect this was going to have

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRIOOOOO CHEERIO CHEERIO 

Quite something.

Perhaps they didn't have much option with the amount of advertisers deserting them, not to mention the serious flak they are taking.

 

Wonder if its the start of something for Murdoch's empire.  Fingers crossed.

 

Must be some job losses though!

 

How long before there's a "Sunday Sun"? 

How long before there's a "Sunday Sun"? 

 

Exactly the conversation we've just been having

Exactly the conversation we've just been having

 

About a week I would guess.

Basically a bit of remarketing to try and keep the market share for News International and get away with it.

Text I just got suggests Sun is going 7 days, Brooks keeps her job (quite how the fuck I have no idea) and Murdoch gets to slash the pay roll by paying off a load of NotW hacks (who may or may not have any connection to all of this)

Fingers in many pies.                                                                                                                                                              See also: List of assets owned by News Corporation

BooksHarperCollins book publishing company

HarperCollins India (40%)[clarification needed] joint venture with India Today Group

Zondervan Christian book publisher

Inspirio - religious gift production.

[edit] NewspapersAustralia published by News Limited.

The Australian (Nationwide)

Community Media Group (16 QLD & NSW suburban/regional titles)

Cumberland-Courier Newspapers (23 suburban/commuter titles)

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)

Herald Sun (Victoria)

Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria)

The Weekly Times (Victoria)

Leader Newspapers (33 suburban Melbourne, VIC titles)

MX (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBD)

The Geelong Advertiser (Geelong, Victoria)

The Advertiser (South Australia)

The Sunday Mail (South Australia)

Messenger Newspapers (11 suburban Adelaide, SA titles)

The Sunday Times (Western Australia)

The Mercury (Tasmania)

Quest Newspapers (19 suburban Brisbane, QLD titles)

The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)

Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)

The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)

The Tablelands Advertiser (Atherton Tablelands and the Far North, Queensland)

Fiji

Fiji Times (National) (10%)

Nai Lalakai (10%)

Shanti Dut (10%)

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National) (62.5%)

UK and Ireland newspapers, published by subsidiaries of News International Ltd.

News Group Newspapers Ltd.

The Sun (published in Scotland as The Scottish Sun and in Ireland as The Irish Sun)

News of the World (ceased trading due to public pressure)

Times Newspapers Ltd.

The Sunday Times

The Times

The Times Literary Supplement

US newspapers and magazines

The New York Post

Community Newspaper Group

The Brooklyn Paper

Bronx Times-Reporter

Brooklyn Courier-Life

Queens Times Ledger

Dow Jones & Company

Consumer Media Group

The Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal Europe

Wall Street Journal Asia

Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.

Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.

Far Eastern Economic Review

Enterprise Media Group

Dow Jones Newswires - global, real-time news and information provider.

Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.

Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Dow Jones Financial Information Services - produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.

Betten Financial News - leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.

Local Media Group

Ottaway Community Newspapers - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.

STOXX (33%)- joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.

Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).

SmartMoney

The Timesledger Newspapers of Queens, New York:

Bayside Times, Whitestone Times, Flushing Times, Fresh Meadows Times, Little Neck Ledger, Jackson Heights Times, Richmond Hill Times, Jamaica Times, Laurelton Times, Queens Village Times, Astoria Times, Forest Hills Ledger, Ridgewood Ledger, Howard Beach Times

The Courier-Life Newspapers in Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Paper

Caribbean Life

Times-Herald Record (Middletown, New York)

[edit] MagazinesNews America Marketing (Smartsource) (weekly Sunday newspaper coupon insert/website)

Australian

Alpha Magazine

Australian Country Style

Australian Golf Digest

Australian Good Taste

Big League

BCME

Delicious

Donna Hay

Fast Fours

GQ (Australia)

Gardening Australia

InsideOut (Aust)

Lifestyle Pools

Live to Ride

Notebook

Overlander 4WD

Modern Boating

Modern Fishing

Parents

Pure Health

Super Food Ideas

Truck Australia

Truckin' Life

twowheels

twowheels scooter

Vogue (Australia)

Vogue Entertaining & Travel

Vogue Living

InsideOut (UK Based Magazine)

[edit] Music and radioFox Film Music Group

[edit] RussiaNashe (50%)

Best FM (50%)

[edit] Sport50% of the National Rugby League (Australia and New Zealand)

Majority ownership of the Brisbane Broncos (68.9%) and full ownership of the Melbourne Storm rugby league team.

Colorado Rockies (15%)

[edit] StudiosFox Filmed Entertainment: 20th Century Fox's parent company

20th Century Fox: a film production/distribution company

Fox Searchlight Pictures - specialized films.

Fox 2000 Pictures - general audience feature films.

20th Century Fox Television - primetime television programming.

20th Television - television distribution (syndication).

Fox 21 - low scripted/budgeted television production company.

Fox Television Studios (productions)- market specific programming e.g. COPS and network television company.

Fox Television Studios International

Fox World Productions

Fox World Australia

Fox TV Studios France

Fox TV Studios India

Natural History New Zealand - natural world documentaries, non-fiction programming.

Fox Faith - Promotion and distribution of Christian and related "family friendly" movies on DVD and some theatrical release.

Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, New South Wales

Blue Sky Studios - production of CGI films e.g. Ice Age.

Fox Entertainment Group

New Regency Productions (20%) - general audience feature films.

Regency Enterprises (20%) - parent company of New Regency Productions (50%).

BSkyB Studios London, England

FOX Star Studios New Delhi,India

[edit] TVNews Corp agreed to sell eight of its television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for approximately $1.1 billion as of 22 December 2007. The stations are US Fox affiliates.[32]

 

[edit] BroadcastFox Broadcasting Company (Fox), a US broadcast television network

My Network TV, a US broadcast television network

Fox Television Stations Group, a group of owned and operated Fox television stations

Saeta TV Channel 10, channel of Uruguay

ITV plc (7.5%), a British broadcast television network and the UK's largest advertising revenue based broadcaster

News Corp Europe

bTV, a broadcast television network in Bulgaria. They sold this to CME in February 2010.

B1 TV (12,5%), a broadcast television network in Romania, in partnership with Ismar International NVkkkk

Fox Televizija, a broadcast television network in Serbia (49%). They sold this to Antenna Group in January 2010

Fox Turkey, a Turkish terrestrial channel (56,5%) (formerly TGRT)

Imedi Media Holding (100%), a Georgian radio and TV broadcaster.

Imedi Television

Radio Imedi

Israel 10 (9%), a terrestrial channel in Israel.

LNT (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia

TV5 Riga (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia

Cielo (100%), a free channel in Italy

ANTV (20%), a private television station in Indonesia, under the administration and label of STAR TV

Prime Television New Zealand - commercial TV station, interest held through stake in SKY Network Television

[edit] Satellite televisionBritish Sky Broadcasting, United Kingdom & Ireland (39.1% holding). In practice, a controlling interest.

SKY Network TV, New Zealand (44%)

SKY Italy, Italian satellite TV service

SKY México, Latin American satellite TV service

SKY Brasil, Brazilian satellite TV servive

SKY Germany (49.90%), Germany's largest pay TV provider

SKY Tata (20%), an Indian DTH HDTV service (in partnership with Tata Group)

Foxtel (25%), Australia, a joint venture with Telstra (50%) and Consolidated Media Holdings (25%)

FOX Italy, Italian Broadcast and Production Company (with 2 HDTV)

STAR TV, an Asian satellite TV service having 300 million viewers in 53 countries (it acquired STAR Vijay and Asianet, (two prominent south Indian networks)

Phoenix Television (17.6%), satellite TV network with landing rights in Hong Kong, and select provinces on Mainland China.

[edit] CableCable TV channels owned (in whole or part) and operated by News Corporation include:

 

Fox Business Network, a business news channel.

Fox Classics, a channel airing classic TV shows & movies

Fox Movie Channel, an all-movie channel that airs commercial-free movies from 20th Century Fox's film library

Fox News Channel, a 24-hour news & opinion channel

Fox Sports Net, a chain of US regional cable news television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local channels include "Fox Sports Southwest", "Fox Sports Detroit", etc. (some affiliates are owned by Cablevision).

SportSouth, a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and affiliate of Fox Sports Net.

Sun Sports a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Miami, Florida, and affiliate of Fox Sports Net.

Fox College Sports, a college sports network consisting of three regionally aligned channels, mostly with archived Fox Sports Net programs but also some live and original content.

Fox Sports International

Fox Soccer Channel, a United States digital cable and satellite network specializing mainly in soccer.

Fox Soccer Plus, a sister network to FSC, but including coverage of other sports, most notably rugby union. Launched in 2010 after News Corporation picked up many of the broadcast rights abandoned by Setanta Sports when it stopped broadcasting in the U.S.

Fox Sports Middle East - English language sports network airing in Middle East countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE & Yemen.

Fox Pan American Sports (37.9%) - joint venture with Hicks, Muse, and Tate & Furst.

Fox Sports en Español (50%), 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.

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 programs The Shield and Damages.

Speed Channel

FUEL TV

Big Ten Network, cable and satellite channel dedicated to The Big Ten Conference, launched Aug 2007 (49%)

National Geographic Channel (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine) 67%

National Geographic Channel International 75%

National Geographic Wild (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine)

Fox International Channels, domestic cable channels offering different formats of Fox programming in over thirty countries worldwide.

Fox

Fox Life

Fox Life HD

Fox Crime

FX

Fox Horror

Fox Movies

Fox Sports

Speed Channel

National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel HD

National Geographic Wild

National Geographic Adventure

National Geographic Music

National Geographic Junior

Cult

Next:HD

Voyage

Real Estate TV

BabyTV

Fox Toma 1 - Spanish language television production.

Fox Telecolombia - Spanish language television production. (51%)

Utarget.Fox - European and Latin American online ad company, plus now handles TV ad sales.

Middle & South America

Fox Latin American Channels - channels available in over 17 countries in Latin America

National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel HD

National Geographic Wild

Nat Geo Music

Universal Channel

Universal HD

Fox Channel

Fox HD

FX

Fox Life

Syfy

Fox Sports

Speed Channel

Baby TV

Utilisima

Fox One-Stop Media - advertising sales for company owned and third party channels in Latin America

LAPTV (60%) (Latin American Pay Television) operates 8 cable movie channels throughout South America excluding Brazil.

Telecine(12.5%) operates 5 cable movie channels in Brazil.

Australia

Premier Media Group (50%)

Fox Sports 1

Fox Sports 2

Fox Sports 3

SPEED

FoxSportsNews

Fuel TV Australia

Premium Movie Partnership (20%) - movie channels, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, Viacom and Liberty Media

PLATFORMS

 

India

Hathway Cable & Datacom (22.2%), India's 2nd largest cable network through 7 cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai & Pune

Taiwan

Total TV (20%), Pay TV platform with JV partner KOO's Group majority owner (80%). News Corp also has a 20% interest in the KOO's Group directly

[edit] InternetFox Interactive Media

Foxsports.com - website with sports news, scores, statistics, video and fantasy sports

Hulu (27%) - online video streaming site in partnership with NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company.

Flektor - provides Web-based tools for photo and video editing and mashups.

IGN Entertainment - Internet entertainment portal (Includes the sites IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, and Askmen.com)

Giga.de

Slingshot Labs - web development incubator (Includes the sites DailyFill).

Strategic Data Corp - interactive advertising company which develops technology to deliver targeted internet advertising.

Scout.com

WhatIfSports.com - sports simulation and prediction website. Also provides fantasy-style sports games to play.

Indya.com - 'India's no. 1 Entertainment Portal'

ROO Group Inc (5% increasing to 10% with performance targets)

News Digital Media

News.com.au - Australian-oriented news website

News Lab

CareerOne.com.au (50%) - recruitment advertisement website in partnership with Monster Worldwide.

Carsguide.com.au

in2mobi.com.au

TrueLocal.com.au

Moshtix.com.au – a ticket retailer

Learning Seat

Wego News owns minority stake in Wego.com

Netus (75%) - investment co. in online properties.

REA Group (60.7%)

Realestate.com.au

Casa.it (69.4%), Sky Italia also holds a 30.6% share

atHome group, operator of leading realestate websites in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany.

Altowin (51%),provider of office management tools for realestate agents in Belgium.

Propertyfinder.com (50%), News International holds the remaining 50%

Sherlock Publications, owner of hotproperty.co.uk portal and magazine titles 'Hot Property', 'Renting' and 'Overseas'

ukpropertyshop.co.uk, most comprehensive UK estate agent directory.

PropertyLook, property websites in Australia and New Zealand.

HomeSite.com.au, home renovation and improvement website.

Square Foot Limited, Hong Kong's largest English Language property magazine and website

Primedia - Holding co. of Inside DB, a Hong Kong lifestyle magazine.

TadpoleNet Media (10%) Hosts of ArmySailor.com

New Zealand

DVD Unlimited - leading online DVD subscription service (ownership through stake in Sky Network Television).

Fox Networks - one of the largest international ad networks.

Expedient InfoMedia blog network.

[edit] Other assetsNDS - Conditional access technology and personal digital video recorders (PVRs) (49%)

Jungo

Timothy Coville

ITE, publisher of PlayStation and Mobile games, and interactive television

Broadsystem Ltd (UK) - Telephony provider for media companies, bought in 1991

Broadsystem Australia (Australia)

Broadsystem Ventures (UK) - provider of cheap-rate telephone calls, particularly for customers of Sky Television. Bought outright in 1999.

Jamba! - Mobile Entertainment/Mobile Handsets Personalisation/Games.

News Outdoor Group - Largest outdoor advertising company in Eastern Europe with over 70,000 ads including billboards and bus shelters, operating in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia (96 cities), Turkey & Ukraine.

Maximedia Israel (67%)

Mosgorreklama (50%) - Russia sign and marketing material manufacturer

Kamera Acikhava Reklamclik (?) - leading outdoor advertising company in Turkey

Australian Associated Press (45%) - real time news service.

Stats Inc (50%) - worlds leading provider of sporting information and statistical analysis (a JV with Associated Press)

Fox Sports Grill (50%) - Upscale sports bar and restaurant with 7 locations - Scottsdale, Arizona; Irvine, California; Seattle, Washington; Plano, Texas; Houston, Texas; San Diego, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.

Fox Sports Skybox (70%) - Sports fan's Bar & Grill at Staples Center and 6 airport restaurants.

News America Marketing (US) - (100%) - nation’s leading marketing services company, products include a portfolio of in-store, home-delivered and online media under the SmartSource brand.

Rotana (9%) - Largest Arab entertainment company owned by Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal

The Daily - iPad only newspaper delivered daily.

Making Fun - social game develope