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
- 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
- Mushroom 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
- 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 Espaņol, 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
