This profile considers Rupert Murdoch and the News group.

News Corporation is one of the three largest international media groups, operating in most sectors and most continents.

Its main site includes the group's annual report and information about its global holdings. In 2000 the group had assets of around US$36 billion and annual revenue of US$14 billion. At the beginning of 2003 assets were around US$42 billion, with revenues of US$16 billion. By April 2004 some 75% of revenue was attributable to operations in the US. At that time News announced plans to shift its corporate domicile from Australia to the US (which would facilitate access to capital) and to buy the Murdoch family's controlling stake in Queensland Press, which was partly owned by News and had a substantial stake in News.

holdings

Books

Imprints, primarily under the HarperCollins umbrella, include -

HarperCollins
Perennial
Cliff Street Books
The Ecco Press
Quill
HarperAudio
Regan Books
Amistad Press
William Morrow
HarperTorch
Eos
HarperEntertainment
HarperSanFrancisco
HarperInformation
HarperBusiness
HarperResource
Fourth Estate
Access Travel
William Morrow Cookbooks
Branded Books Program
HarperCollins Children's Books
Greenwillow Books
Joanna Cotler Books
Laura Geringer Books
HarperFestival
HarperTrophy
Avon
Tempest
HarperCollins International

terrestrial broadcast, cable & satellite

United States

Fox Broadcasting Company (discussed in a supplementary note elsewhere on this site)
85% of Fox Entertainment Group Inc which includes ...
Fox SportsWNVW - New York City
KTTV - Los Angeles
WFLD - Chicago
WTXF - Philadelphia
WFXT - Boston
WTTG - Washington D.C
KDFW - Dallas
WJBK - Detroit
WAGA - Atlanta
KRIV - Houston
WJW - Cleveland
WTVT - Tampa
KSAZ - Phoenix
KDVR - Denver
KTVI - St Louis
WITI - Milwaukee
WOFL - Orlando
WOGX - Ocala
WDAF - Kansas City
KSTU - Salt Lake City
WHBQ - Memphis
WGHP - Greensboro
WBRC - Birmingham
WPR - Chicago
KTBC - Austin
KVC - Austin Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports South
Fox Sports Pittsburgh
Fox Sports Southeast
Fox Sports Midwest
Fox Sports Rocky Mountain
Fox Sports Arizona
Fox Sports Northwest
Fox Sports West
Fox Sports Detroit
Fox Sports Bay Area (with Rainbow Media Holdings)
Fox Sports Chicago (with Rainbow Media Holdings)
Fox Sports Cincinnati
Fox Sports Intermountain West
Fox Sports New England (with Rainbow Media)
Fox Sports New York (with Rainbow Media)
Fox Sports Ohio (with Rainbow Media)
Fox Sports Southwest (with Rainbow Media)
Madison Square Garden Network (with Rainbow Media)
FiT TV
The Health Network
Fox Sports World
FX
National Geographic's cable channel (50% with GE and National Geographic)
Golf Channel (33%)
The Family Channel
MTM Entertainment
Fox News Channel
FxM
Outdoor Life (34%)
Speedvision (34%)
TV Guide Channel (44% with Liberty Media)
34% of Hughes Electronics (satellite broadcaster DIRECTV with over 11 million subscribers in the US, 81% equity in satellite operator PanAmSat, and Hughes Network Systems)

United Kingdom

British Sky Broadcasting (40% - Vivendi may dispose of 24.5% of BSkyB)
Music Choice Europe (49%)
QVC (20%)
Sky Multi-Channels (over 40 channels, including the following in which BSkyB has an economic interest)
- .tv
- National Geographic Channel UK (50%)
- Paramount Channel (25%)
- Sky One
- Sky News
- Sky Soap
- Sky Travel
- The Computer Channel
- Nickelodeon UK (50%, with Viacom)
- The History Channel (50%)
- Sky Scottish (50%)
- Granada Sky Broadcasting (40%) - with Granada
- Granada Plus
- Granada Talk TV
- Granada Men & Motors
- Granada TV High Street
- Granada Food & Wine
- Granada Health & Beauty
- Granada Home and Garden
- Fox Kids
- Premium Channels
- Sky Movies
- The Movie Channel
- Sky Sports
- Sky Movies Gold
- Sky Sports 2
- Sky Sports 3

Germany

TM3 (66%)
Premiere World - 24% (owned through BSkyB)

France

13% of Breton cable tv group TV Breizh (Berlusconi's Mediaset has 13%)

Italy

Sky Italia (inc Telepiu and Stream) pay tv operation

Australia

FOXTEL (25%) - with Packer (25%) and Telstra
- Arena (50%)
- Channel V (50%)
- FOX
- FOX History
- FOX Soap
- FOX Talk
- FOX Travel
- FOXTEL Weather
- FX
- Nickelodeon (25%)
- Sky News Australia (33.3%)
- UK TV (60%)
- Fox Sports
- The Comedy Channel (80%)

Asia

Star TV
- STAR Chinese
- STAR Plus
- STAR Movies
- STAR Plus Japan
- STAR Movies South
- ESPN STAR Sports (50%)
- STAR Sports
- Channel V (50%)
- Viva Cinema (50%)
Phoenix Satellite TV (17.6%)
- Phoenix Chinese

Canada

minor stake in CTV Sportsnet

India

ISKYB
Asia Today (50%)
ZEE TV
- EL TV
- ZEE Cinema
Siti Cable Network (50%)

Italy

Stream (minority stake)

Indonesia

Indiovision (46%)
Film Indonesia (50%)

Japan

News Broadcasting Japan (80%)
SkyPerfect TV (11%)

Latin America

Canal Fox
Fox Sports Americas (owned by Fox/Liberty Media)
Fox Kids
Telecine (12.5%)
CineCanal (21.5%)
Sky Latin America DTH Platform
- Innova (30%) - with Televisa
- NetSat (36%)
- Latin America (30%)

Magazines & Inserts

North America

TV Guide (partial)
TVSM
TV Total
Cable Guide
The Weekly Standard
Maximum Golf
In Store
FSI
In Store (Canada)
FSI (Canada)

UK

Nursery World - sold to Exponent Private Equity October 2005

Pacific

Pacific Islands Monthly

Film Production & Distribution

Twentieth Century Fox
Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox 2000
Fox Searchlight
Fox Family Films
Fox Animation Studios
Twentieth Century Fox Home
Twentieth Century Fox TV
Fox Studios Australia

Newspapers

News claims to be the world's leading publisher of English-language newspapers, with over 175 titles in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US. It employs around 15,000 people worldwide, printing more than 40 million copies a week.

United States

New York Post

United Kingdom

The Times
Times Literary Supplement
The Sunday Times
The Sun
News of the World
Times Education (inc Times Education Supplement and Higher Education Supplement) - sold to Exponent Private Equity September 2005

Australia

The Australian
The Weekend Australian
The Daily Telegraph
The Sunday Telegraph
Sportsman
Herald Sun
Sunday Herald Sun
The Weekly Times
The Courier Mail
The Sunday Mail
Gold Coast Bulletin
Adelaide Advertiser
Cumberland Newspaper Group (20 titles in Sydney suburbs)
Leader Newspaper Group (30 titles in Melbourne suburbs)
Cairns Post Group (42%)
North Queensland Newspaper Group
Townsville Bulletin
Quest Community Newspapers (17 titles in Brisbane suburbs)
Northern Territory News
Sunday Territorian
Centralian Advocate
The Suburban
The Mercury
The Sunday Tasmanian
Tasmanian Country
Treasure Islander
Derwent Valley Gazette
Sunday Mail
Messenger Press Group
Sunday Times (Perth)

Fiji

The Fiji Times
Nai Lalakei (Fijian)
Shanti Dut (Hindi )

Papua New Guinea

Post Courier (63%)

sports

New York Knicks (20% stake through partnership with Cablevision)
New York Rangers (20% stake through partnership with Cablevision)
Los Angeles Kings (NHL, 40% option)
Los Angeles Lakes (NBA, 9.8% option)
Staples Center (40% owned by Fox/Liberty)
National Rugby League Championship (50%) - Australian football

radio

Analog and digital radio holdings include -

• Sky Radio (71%)
• Fox Sports Radio Network
• Sky Radio Sweden (28%)
• TALKCO (20%)
• Radio Veronica (42%) - Netherlands
• Sky Radio Denmark
• Sky Radio Germany
• Sky Radio Netherlands
• ClassicFM - Netherlands

technology and multimedia

Technology and interactive holdings include -

• NDS (formerly News Digital Services)
• SiVenture - UK-based smartcard consultancy
• News Advanced Technologies
• News America Digital Publishing
• News America New Media
• News Internet Services
• Healtheon/WebMD (11%)
• TheStreet.com (partial stake with New York Times)
• Rivals.com (46%)
• iSyndicate (partial stake with Scripps, NBC, InfoSpace, Vignette, and Microsoft)
• News Digital Systems (UK)
• Line One (33%)
• Sportal (5% through BSkyB)
• Orbis - interactive gambling software
• News Interactive (Aust) - including NEWS.com.au, CareerOne, AustralianIT, FOX SPORTS, CARSguide and RealEstate.com.au
• PDN Xinren Information Technology (50%)

music

News has minor recording interests, centred in Australia -

• Mushroom Records
• Festival Records

outdoor advertising

News Outdoor Group (NOG), established in 1999 and headquartered in Moscow, includes -

• News Outdoor Bulgaria
• News Outdoor Czech Republic
• News Outdoor Poland (Town & City)
• News Outdoor Romania
• News Outdoor Russia
• Kamera (Turkey)
• News Outdoor Ukraine

NOG is concerned with billboards, advertising on street furniture and bus shelters, airport transit advertising and in-store point of sale displays.

Other

Other holdings include -

• Broadsystem - customer relationship management services (UK and Australia), one of the UK's top five telemarketing agencies
• News Optimus - (formerly Broadsystem Ventures) telephony and telemarketing services
• SmartSource Marketing - direct mail and in-store advertising, promotions and merchandising programs in Australia and New Zealand
• NewsMarketing - direct mail and in-store advertising, promotions and merchandising programs in Canada
• New America Marketing - direct mail and in-store advertising, promotions and merchandising programs in US
• Convoys Group - UK newspaper distribution
• PLD Telekon (38%) - Indonesia
• Newspoll (50%) - opinion polling