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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

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Is Murdoch free to destroy tabloid’s records?

 

Jul 7, 2011 16:10 EDT

 

By Alison Frankel

The views expressed are her own.

 

Here’s some News of the World news to spin the heads of American lawyers. According to British media law star Mark Stephens of Finers Stephens Innocent (whom The Times of London has dubbed “Mr Media”), Rupert Murdoch’s soon-to-be shuttered tabloid may not be obliged to retain documents that could be relevant to civil and criminal claims against the newspaper—even in cases that are already underway. That could mean that dozens of sports, media, and political celebrities who claim News of the World hacked into their telephone accounts won’t be able to find out exactly what the tabloid knew and how it got the information.

 

If News of the World is to be liquidated, Stephens told Reuters, it “is a stroke of genius—perhaps evil genius.”

 

Under British law, Stephens explained, all of the assets of the shuttered newspaper, including its records, will be transferred to a professional liquidator (such as a global accounting firm). The liquidator’s obligation is to maximize the estate’s assets and minimize its liabilities. So the liquidator could be well within its discretion to decide News of the World would be best served by defaulting on pending claims rather than defending them. That way, the paper could simply destroy its documents to avoid the cost of warehousing them—and to preclude any other time bombs contained in News of the World’s records from exploding.

 

“Why would the liquidator want to keep [the records]?” Stephens said. “Minimizing liability is the liquidator’s job.”

 

That’s a very different scenario, Stephens said, from what would happen if a newspaper in the U.S. went into bankruptcy. In the U.S., a plaintiff (or, for that matter, a criminal investigator) could obtain a court order barring that kind of document destruction. In the U.K., there’s no requirement that the estate retain its records, nor any law granting plaintiffs a right to stop the liquidator from getting rid of them.

 

 

Have just been told that is apparently not true. Business closing doesn't equate to liquidation. So Murdoch cannot legally shred documents. I'm sure that'll stop him...

 

Best quote about this all came from Paddy O'flynn of the Express, "James Murdoch - the only surgeon who cuts out all the healthy flesh to save the cancer."

 

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Rebekah Brooks must know some serious shit

08-07-11

REBEKAH Brooks is clearly keeping the Murdochs out of jail, it has emerged.

 

As James Murdoch closed the most successful newspaper in the western world rather than sack a devious harpie, experts said that harpie must have some weapons-grade shit up her sleeve.

 

Professor Henry Brubaker, of the Institute for Studies, said: "Jesus fucking Christ, they must have killed a tramp."

 

The News of the World will be axed on Sunday, followed a day later by Brooks returning to work at a desk that is obviously filled with grisly secrets.

 

And today Brooks' former protegé Andy Coulson will be arrested and charged with not wearing a disguise and following James and Rupert Murdoch when they went on one of their late night, East End killing sprees.

 

Martin Bishop, media analyst at Madeley-Finnegan, said: "No-one was calling for the paper to be closed, apart from the usual Twitter monkeys. If they had sacked Brooks and waved a batch of former executives off to prison, then slowly but surely things would have returned to normal, what with the British public being, you know, idiots.

 

"I reckon there's a refrigerated dungeon full of Brazilian kids and Rupert eats a fresh one every day."

 

Meanwhile accountants raised the possibility that the whole thing is just an elaborate tax dodge.

 

Despite the Murdochs' effort to draw a line under calling their Sunday tabloid journalism the News of the World, tax experts caught the faint whiff of financial genius.

 

Helen Archer, from Porter, Pinkney and Turner, said: "I would not be surprised if Rupert Murdoch invented phone hacking after discovering a loophole which allows you to save hundreds of millions of pounds if you shut down a newspaper based on outrage.

 

"And even though they pay fuck all tax anyway, a good accountant can always get you a refund."

 

But Professor Brubaker added: "Nah, I reckon it's got something to do with a grainy photo of some oiled teenage boys, forming a human pyramid."

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More people are going to read the Mail on Sunday

08-07-11

 

THE readership of the Mail on Sunday will increase, it is as simple as that, experts warned last night.

 

The closure of the News of the World will mean the planet's most disturbed thing will now be bought by thousands of tabloid readers who are not intimidated by the dreaded 'third syllable'.

 

Media analyst, Julian Cook, said: "The ones who just like the pictures will now point and howl at the Daily Star Sunday - oh yes, there is such a thing.

 

"And those who bought the News of the World as some kind of edgy, ironic statement will just go back to reading whatever dicks normally read.

 

"But the hard, cold, sickening fact that will become this country's epitaph is that hundreds of thousands of people will now drift within the gravitational pull of Peter Hitchens.

 

"So those FUCKING ARSEHOLES at the Guardian might want to think about that shit for a minute before they pop the champagne that they can't really afford because they haven't made a profit since 1642."

 

He added: "The News of the World did some nauseating, ghastly things, but it's not Hitchens. It's not even close.

 

"By default, we have increased the audience for pure, cruel, mindless hate. Well done!

 

"Then again, at least Peter Hitchens only hacks into to his own voicemail to find out what his multiple personalities have been telling him to do.

 

"Sometimes he is Bad Peter, sometimes he is Crazee Peter and sometimes he is Peter Christ, the Angry Jesus. From a spectator's point of view, it's best when he's being all three.

 

"But for British culture, I'm afraid it is a case of 'out of the frying pan, into the mental hospital'."

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