Saturday 29 January 2011

News Corportation - What does Murdoch Own?

List of assets owned by News Corporation:

Film
20th Century Fox
Fox Studios (Australia, Los Angeles)
Fox Television Studios
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox Television

Television
20th Century Fox Television
bTV
Foxtel (Australian cable and satellite TV provider)
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Television
STAR TV (Asian)
British Sky Broadcasting

Cable Assets
Big Ten Network (45%)
Fox Business Network
Fox College Sports
Fox Movie, News, Soccer Channels
FUEL TV (US Extreme sports channel)
FX Networks
National Geographic Channel (UK - 50%)
Speed Channel
LAPTV (Latin American)

Direct Broadcast Satellite Assets
BSkyB (UK 39.1%)
Sky Deutschland (39.96%)
Sky Italia
Sky Network Television (New Zealand - 43.65%)
Foxtel (Australia - 25%)
Star TV (India and China - 100%)
Tata Sky (India - 20%)

Internet
Fox Interactive Media -
  • AmericanIdol.com
  • AskMen.com
  • Direct2Drive
  • Fox.com
  • GameSpy
  • Hulu.com
  • IGN
  • kSolo
  • Drownedinsound.com
  • MySpace
  • MyNetworktv.com
  • NewRoo.com
  • Strategicdatacorp.com
  • Scout.com
  • SpringWidgets
  • WhatlfSports
Beliefnet
News Digital Meida
Slingshot Labs
Authonomy

Magazine and Inserts
Alpha
Australian Football Weekly, Golf Digest, Good Taste, Parents
Best of the Gold Coast Magazine
Big League
Chopper
Country Style
delicious (with ABC)
Gardening with Australia
GQ Australia
Inside Out
Lifesyle Pools + Outdoor Design
Live to Ride
MasterChef Magazine
Modern Boating, Fishing
News America Marketing
Overlander 4WD
SmartSource
Super Food Ideas
Tatto
Truck & Tralier Australia
Truckin' Life
Two Wheels, Scooter
Vogue Australia, Entertaining + Travel

Newspapers and Information Services
UK -

News International
  • The Sun
  • News of the World
  • The Times
  • Sunday Times
  • thelondonpaper (free newspaper which closed in Sept 2009)
Australia -

News Limited
Australian State Newspapers including papers for National, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory
Communiry suburban newspapers including papers for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin

Papua New Guinea -
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier

Fiji -
The Fiji Times

International
Dow Jones & Company
  • Consumer Media Group (which own The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Marketwatch, Far Eastern Economic Review and Financial News)
  • Enterprise Media Group
  • Local Media Group
  • Strategic Alliances
Books
HarperCollins
HarperCollins India (40%)
Zondervan Publishing

Miscellaneous
National Rugby League (50%)
Ansett Australia (50%)
Fox Music
Jamba!
NDS Group (49%)

*The only other media industry which Murdoch does not have a major stake in, is the music industry, though his recent acquisition of MySpace may venture towards this.

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