News Corporation
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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. Formerly incorporated in Adelaide, Australia, News Corporation reincorporated in the United States on April 6, 2004.
The holdings of News Corporation include:
- Books
- HarperCollins book publishing company
- ReganBooks
- Zondervan
- 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 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.
- News Group Newspapers Ltd.
- US newspapers and magazines
- the New York Post
- Australian newspapers
- Magazines
- InsideOut
- SmartSource
- TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
- Weekly Standard
- Music
- Satellite
- BSkyB, United Kingdom
- Foxtel, Australia
- DirecTV Group, North and South America
- DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider
- DirecWay, Satellite Internet service provider
- DirectTV Latin America
- Hughes Network Systems, satellite Internet
- DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider
- 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 Español, a Spanish-language North American cable sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to a Latin American audience.
- 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
- Sky News UK-based cable news channel
- Sky Sports UK-based cable sports channel plex
- Sky Movies UK-based cable movie channel plex
- Sky Box Office UK-based on-demand movie channel
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