News Corporation

News Corporation , or News Corp (,), is a group of media and communication founded with Adélaïde (Australia) by the Murdoch family.

Owners

The principal shareholders of News Corp are:

  • Rupert Murdoch which has 29% of the capital of more than half of the voices with the board of directors, therefore quasi totality of the effective capacity;
  • John Malone, which holds nearly 32% of shares, but which is largely minority to the board of directors;
  • the Saoudi prince Al-Walid Ben Talal Ben Abd Al-Aziz Al Saoud (Saoudi royal family), which holds 5,5% of the capital.
  • finally, the other minority shareholders are the pension funds and following financial institutions: Citigroup, capital research & management, FMR corp, Goldman Sach, JP Morgan, Meryll Lynch, Morgan Stanley and State Street Corp for approximately 15% of the capital.

Profile of the group

The group News corporation is with dimensions in London, New York Stock Exchange, and Sydney. In 2006, the group News Corp employs approximately 44.000 people out of the five continents. The group is the greatest group of media in the world (and especially most influential) because it is present on all the media supports (press, television hertzian and cable length, edition, radio, Internet, and multi-media).

News corporation realizes between 15 and 20 billion dollars of turnover each year, it goes without saying these incomes are very largely conditioned by the tariffs and advertizing revenues. The incomes of year 2005 are of 23,8 million dollars most of this sales turnover comes from the United States where the group is the national leader of information and the communication

Direction of the group

Direction the members of the board of directors are: Peter Barnes, Carey Huntings, Peter Chernin, Keneth Cowley, David Of voe, Dinh Vietnamese soldier, Rod Eddington, Andrew Knight, Lachlan Murdoch (Wire of ruppert Murdoch), Rupert Murdoch (chairman), Thomas Perkns, Stanley Shuman, Arthur Siskind (vice president), Jose Maria Aznar (Former Spanish Prime Minister), and John Thornton. After the departure of Lachlan Murdoch (current director of B.sky.B) of the group News Corporation in Juil 2005 (Challenges of the 28Oct to the 55 Seven 2007) it is from now on his/her brother James Murdoch who is now had a presentiment of to take the head of the group when his/her father withdraws economic life.

Empire

Editions

  • HarperCollins
  • ReganBooks
  • Zondervan Christian

Newspapers

  • Australia
    • The Australian (National)
    • The Weekend Australian (National)
    • The Courier-Email (Queensland)
    • The Sunday Email (Queensland)
    • The Cairns Post (Cairns, Queensland)
    • The Gold Coast Bulletin (Gold Coast, Queensland)
    • The Townsville Bulletin (Townsville, Queensland)
    • The Daily Telegraph (New South Wales)
    • The Sunday Telegraph (New South Wales)
    • The Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • The Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • The Weekly Times (Victoria)
    • MX (Melbourne and Sydney CBD)
    • The Geelong Advertiser (Geelong, Victoria)
    • The Advertiser (South Australia)
    • The Sunday Email (South Australia)
    • Messenger Newspapers (South Australia)
    • The Sunday Times (Australia Western)
    • The Mercury (Tasmania)
    • The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)
    • Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
    • The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)
  • Fiji
    • Fiji Times (National)
  • New Guinea and New Guinea
    • Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National)
  • the United Kingdom
- published by the English subsidiary company, International News Ltd.
    • the tabloid The Sun
    • the tabloid News off the World
- published by the subsidiary company Times Newspapers Ltd.

Magazines

  • SmartSource
  • TV Guides off, via partial ownership Gemstar-TV Guides
  • The Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.)
  • Wired
  • Alpha Magazine
  • Love It (the U.K.)
  • InsideOut (the U.K.)
  • The Travel Magazine (the U.K.)
  • Dannii (the U.K.)

Music

  • MySpace Records

Sports

  • 50% of the National Rugby League (Australia and New Zealand)

Studios

  • Twentieth Century Fox, film production company
    • Fox Searchlight
    • Fox television Studios, production company of televised series
    • Fox Australia Studios, Sydney, New South Wales
    • Fox Baja Studios, Rosarito, Baja California
  • Blue Sky Studios

TV

Broadcast

  • Fox Broadcasting Company, has Custom-wide broadcast television network
  • My Network TV, has US broadcast television network (to Be launched September 2006)
  • Fox television Stations Group
  • bTV, has broadcast television network in Bulgaria
  • Fox Televizija, has broadcast television network in Serbia (expected to start broadcasting soon)
  • ANTV, has private television station in Indonesia, under the administration and label off STAR TV
  • FOX Türk (in the past TGRT), has Turkish terrestrial Chanel
  • TV Sweaters, a Polish catholic chain of information (25%)

Satellite television

  • British Sky Broadcasting, Royame-Plain (38.3% holding).
  • DirecTV Group, North and South America (38.3% holding)
  • DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider
  • Latin DirectTV America
  • Sky Brasil (with Globopar)
  • Sky Mexico City
  • Foxtel, Australia (25% holding)
  • Sky Italia, Italian satellite TV service
  • STAR TV, year Asian satellite TV service
  • Touched Sky, year Indian DTH TV service (20% holding)

Cable television

  • Fox College Sports, College Sports Network that consisits off 3 regionally aligned channels
  • Fox Movie Chanel, year almovie commercial-free Chanel that airs movies from 20th Century Fox film library
  • Fox News, a chain of information continues
  • Fox Reality, a chain with mainly of the programs of Real-TV
  • Fox Sports Net, has chain off US regional local cable television networks broadcasting sporting vents linked together by national sports news programming. Room channels include " Fox Southwest" Sports; , " Fox Sports Bay Area" , etc (nap affiliates still owned by Cablevision).
  • Fox Soccer Chanel, has United States digital cables network specializing mainly in soccer.
  • Fox Sports in Español, has Spanish-language North American cables sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to has Latin American goes down for hearing.
  • Fox Sports in Latinoamérica, has Latin Mexico City-based American satellite and cable sports network.
  • Foxtel (25%), Australia' S largest satellite and cable pay TV provider, joined venture with Telstra and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited
  • FX Networks, has cable network broadcasting reruns off programming previously shown one other channels, goal recently creating its own programming, including the Emmy Award-winning program The Shield.
  • National Geographic Chanel (joined venture with National Geographic Magazine) 67%
  • National International Geographic Chanel 50%
  • SPEED Chanel
  • Fuel Chanel
  • Fox Reality Chanel
  • Big Ten Chanel

Internet

  • MySpace - Web site of Social network around the music. (asset through the purchase of Intermix Media).
  • Grab.com - Entertainment/Ranges. (asset through the purchase of Intermix Media)
  • IGN Entertainment - Gate Internet of Plays-vidéos (include/understand the sites IGN, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes and Askmen.com)
  • News.com .au - Australian-oriented news website
  • What yew Sports.com
  • Scout.com

Telephony

Other entities of the group News corporation

  • (NDS) - Conditional digital access technology and personal video recorders (PVRs)
  • Broadsystem Ltd (the U.K.) - Telephony provider for media companies, bought in 1991
  • Broadsystem Australia (Australia)
  • Broadsystem Ventures (the U.K.) - provider off cheap-spleen telephones cal, particularly for customers off Sky Television. Bought outright in 1999

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the Company News Corporation Inc.

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