News Corporation - Definition and Overview

News Corporation (NYSE: NWS (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=NWS)) 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 and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NWC

Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, Australia, and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, News Corporation is now a U.S. company re-incorporated in the State of Delaware after shareholders unanimously voted for the move. This reincorporation was completed on November 12 2004.

The holdings of News Corporation include:

• Books
  • HarperCollins book publishing company
  • ReganBooks
  • Zondervan Christian book Publisher.
• Newspapers
  • Australian newspapers
    • The Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • MX (Melbourne CBD)
    • The Daily Telegraph (New South Wales)
    • The Courier-Mail (Queensland)
    • The Advertiser (South Australia)
    • The Mercury (Tasmania)
    • The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
    • Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
    • The Australian (Nationwide)
  • 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 tabloid form) The Times
      • the broadsheet The Times Educational Supplement
      • the broadsheet The Times Literary Supplement
  • 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 (35% holding)
  • DirecTV Group, North and South America
    • DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider
    • DirectTV Latin America
    • Hughes Network Systems
      • DirecWay, satellite Internet service provider
  • 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
  • Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
  • Fox Studios Baja, Rosarito, Baja California
• 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 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, 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
  • 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
  • News Digital Systems - Conditonal access technology

External links

• News Corporation (http://www.newscorp.com/) official site
• Ketupa - News Corporation (http://www.ketupa.net/murdoch.htm) profile with history and holdings
• Complete list of News Corp's holdings (http://www.cjr.org/owners/newscorp.asp) - Columbia Journalism Review
• LookSmart - News Corporation (http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317829/us317862/us326651/us962833/us962831/) directory category
• Open Directory Project - News Corporation (http://dmoz.org/Business/Arts_and_Entertainment/Media_Conglomerates/News_Corporation/) directory category
• OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (http://www.outfoxed.org/)