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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.
      • the broadsheet The Sunday Times
      • the broadsheet The Times
      • the broadsheet The Times Education 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
  • 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
  • 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
• 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