Monday April 28, 2008, 9:37 pm
A new analysis by University of Georgia associate professor Barry Hollander finds that between 1998 and 2006, Americans became increasingly polarized in their news-gathering habits. After examining five national Pew Center for the People and the Press during that time period, Hollander concluded that the public now lives in “a huge echo chamber of attitudes and ideas.”

The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Political Insider reports:

In 1998, 27 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of Democrats tuned in regularly to Atlanta-based CNN. Eight years later, the number of Democrats had risen to 29 percent.

But the number of Republicans who tuned in to CNN had shrunk to 19 percent. Gosh, where do you think they went?

Over the same period, Fox News’ share of Republican viewers jumped from 14 to 36 percent.

Hollander also notes that conservatives “dramatically dropped news sources that they perceive as being biased against their position.” Evidently, this included C-SPAN, which also saw a dramatic drop in conservative viewers.

These findings are similar to a Norman Lear Center/Zogby International poll from November 2007, which found that 22 percent of conservatives say they “never” enjoy entertainment that reflects values other than their own, as opposed to just 7 percent of liberals. Fox News was also the “most politically divisive TV channel,” with 70 percent of conservatives and just 3 percent of liberals watching it daily.

But too much Fox News may be bad news for conservatives. An April 2007 Pew Research Study survey found that viewers of the conservative Fox News channel had the lowest knowledge of national and international affairs

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 12:19 am
TY Boots, why does this not surprise me??

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 1:32 am
Isn't Fox the station that said planes hit the Towers and there were Weapons of Mass distruction in Iraq? Personally the only USA stations I watch/listen to are the ones that carry the "soaps", and if Canadian Stations pick them up that means I get Canadian "slanted" of USA news. Therefor I take everything with a grain of salt, and consider the USA Govt. follies a continuing "Soap Ophra/Oprah"........

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 5:00 am
I don't watch Fox news. Thanks Boots.

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 9:19 am
You mean "Fixed Noise"? I wouldn't watch them if they were the ONLY "news" out there!

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 9:33 am
Media giants pursue strategies of owning clusters of newspapers, radio, and television stations in the same market to increase potential revenue. The FCC raised the limits of the audience any single company may reach from 35 to 45 percent, but Congress dropped the percentage back to 39 as a compromise; however, the percentages are not enforced.

Rupert Murdock, News Corporation ownership....Will Freak You Out...take a deep breath for here is part as it devours more ....

News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX:NWS, LSE: NCRA) is the world's largest media conglomerate company by market capitalization.[2][3] The company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is RUPERT MURDOCK and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin.
News Corporation is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Formerly incorporated in South Australia, the company was re-incorporated in the United States state of Delaware after a majority of shareholders approved the move on November 12, 2004.

News Corporation's headquarters is at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.), in New York City, in the newer 1960s-1970s corridor of the Rockefeller Center complex.

Revenue for the year ended June 30, 2007 was US$28.655 billion with an operating income of US$4.452 billion. Almost 70% of the company's sales come from its US businesses.

Contents
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1 History
1.1 Moving into the United States
2 Shareholders
3 Corporate Governance
4 Office of the Chairman
5 Holdings
5.1 Books
5.2 Newspapers
5.3 Magazines
5.4 Music / Radio
5.5 Sport
5.6 Studios
5.7 TV
5.7.1 Broadcast
5.7.2 Satellite television
5.7.3 Cable
5.8 Internet
5.9 Other assets
6 Annual conference
7 See also
8 References
9 External links



[edit] History
News Corporation was created in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. News Limited was created by MURDOCK from the assets he inherited in 1952 following the death of his father, Sir Keith Murdoch, and subsequent expansion. The main asset left to him was ownership of the Adelaide News.

In 1986 and 1987, News Corp (through subsidiary News International) moved to adjust the production process of its British newspapers, over which the printing unions had long maintained a highly restrictive grip.[4] A number of senior Australian media moguls were brought into Murdoch's powerhouse, including John Dux, who was managing director of the South China Morning Post. This led to a confrontation with the printing unions NGA and SOGAT. The move of News International's London operation to Wapping in the East End resulted in nightly battles outside the new plant. Delivery vans and depots were frequently and violently attacked.[5] Ultimately the unions capitulated.


[edit] Moving into the United States
News Corp made its first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when it purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards it founded the National Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976 it purchased the New York Post. In 1981 News Corp bought half the movie studio 20th Century Fox, buying the other half in 1984. In 1985 News Corp announced it was buying the Metromedia group of stations, setting the stage for the launch of a fourth U.S. broadcast network. On September 4, 1985, MURDOCK became a naturalized citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only United States citizens could own American television stations. In 1986, the Metromedia deal closed, and the Fox Broadcasting Company was launched. This network, known on-screen as "Fox", can now be picked up in over 96% of U.S. households.

In 1987 News Corp bought The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. in Australia, the company that RUPERT MURDOCK's father had once managed. By 1992, News Corp had amassed huge debts, which forced it to sell many of the American magazine interests it had acquired in the mid-1980s. Much of this debt came from its stake in the Sky Television satellite network in the UK, which incurred massive losses in its early years of operation, which (like many of its business interests) was heavily subsidized with profits from its other holdings until it was able to force rival satellite operator British Satellite Broadcasting to accept a merger on its terms in 1990. (The merged company, BSkyB has dominated the British pay-TV market since.)

In 1995, the Fox network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) when it was alleged that its Australian base made MURDOCK'S ownership of Fox illegal. The FCC, however, ruled in MURDOCK'S favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the public's best interests. It was also noted that the stations themselves were owned by a separate company whose chief shareholder was U.S. citizen MURDOCK, although nearly all of the stations' equity was controlled by News Corp. In the same year News Corp announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website as well as funding a CONSERVATIVE news magazine, The Weekly Standard. In the same year, News Corp launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in a partnership with Telstra and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.

In 1996, Fox established the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station

In 1999, News Corp significantly expanded its music holdings in Australia by acquiring the controlling share in a leading Australian based label, Michael Gudinski's Mushroom Records; merging it with already held Festival Records to create Festival Mushroom Records (FMR). Both Festival and FMR were managed by RUPERT MURDOCK'S son JAMES MURDOCK for several years.

In late 2003, News Corp acquired a 34% stake in Hughes DirecTV, from General Motors for Electronics, operator of the largest American satellite TV system, US$6 billion.

In 2007 News Corporation reached an agreement to purchase Dow Jones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal for an estimated $5.6 billion. The corporation on 15 October 2007 spun off a business news channel from Fox News - Fox Business News.[6] The channel's lawyers were "reviewing all of the fine details of the contract" between Dow Jones and CNBC, said Alexis Glick, Fox Business News's vice president of business news and the channel's morning anchor. But, she added, "we will actively use" the other Dow Jones properties.[7] "...this new channel is a bit tedious. Somehow, business is more interesting when treated in a business-like way", commented Rob Carrick in 16 October's Toronto Globe and Mail.[8]


[edit] Shareholders
In August 2005 the Murdoch family owned only about 29% of the company. However, nearly all of these shares were voting shares, and RUPERT MURDOCK retained effective control of the company. Nonetheless, John Malone of Liberty Media had built up a large stake, with about half of the shares being voting shares. Therefore, in November 2006, News Corporation announced its intention to transfer its 38.5 per cent managing interest in DirecTV Group to John Malone's Liberty Media; in return it bought back Liberty's 16.3% shares in News Corp., giving MURDOCK tighter control of the latter firm.[1] MURDOCK sold 17.5 million class A shares in December 2007[9]
Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who is an investing tycoon and chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company said in an interview with Charlie Rose that he had about a 6-7% stake in News Corp.[10][11]

[edit] Corporate Governance
The company's Board of Directors consists of 15 individuals:

RUPERT MURDOCK (Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer)
Jose Maria Aznar
Peter Barnes
Peter Chernin (President & Chief Operating Officer)
Kenneth Cowley
David DeVoe (Chief Financial Officer)
Viet Dinh
Sir Roderick Eddington (Lead Director)
Andrew Knight
LACHLAN MURDOCK
JAMES MURDOCK (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Europe & Asia)
Mark Hurd
Thomas Perkins
Arthur Siskind (Senior Adviser to the Chairman)
John Thornton
Stanley Shuman (Emeritus)

[edit] Office of the Chairman
RUPERT MURDOCK (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer)
Peter Chernin (Chief Operating Officer & President)
David DeVoe (Chief Financial Officer)
Lawrence Jacobs (Group General Counsel)
JAMES MURDOCK (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Europe & Asia)
Roger Ailes (Chairman of Fox Television Stations Group)

[edit] Holdings
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[edit] Books
HarperCollins book publishing company
Zondervan Christian book publisher
Youth Specialties - organisation helping youth workers worldwide through training seminars and conventions, resources and the internet.
Inspirio - religious gift production.

[edit] Newspapers
Australia published by News Limited.
The Australian (Nationwide)
Community Media Group (16 QLD & NSW suburban/regional titles)
The Courier-Mail (Queensland)
The Sunday Mail (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)
Herald Sun (Victoria)
Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria)
The Weekly Times (Victoria)
Leader Newspapers (30 suburban Melbourne, VIC titles)
MX (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBD)
The Geelong Advertiser (Geelong, Victoria)
The Advertiser (South Australia)
The Sunday Mail (South Australia)
Messenger Newspapers (11 suburban Adelaide, SA titles)
The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
The Mercury (Tasmania)
Quest Newspapers (19 suburban Brisbane, QLD titles)
The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)
Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)
The Tablelands Advertiser (Atherton Tablelands and the Far North, Queensland)
Fiji
Fiji Times (National)
Nai Lalakai
Shanti Dut
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National)(62.5%)
UK and Ireland newspapers, published by subsidiaries of News International Ltd.
News Group Newspapers Ltd.
the tabloid The Sun (published in Ireland as The Irish Sun)
the tabloid News of the World
Times Newspapers Ltd.
the broadsheet The Sunday Times
the 'ex-broadsheet' (Now in compact form) The Times
The Times Literary Supplement
NI Free Newspapers Ltd.
the free newspaper thelondonpaper
US newspapers and magazines
The New York Post
Dow Jones & Company
Consumer Media Group
The Wall Street Journal - the leading US financial newspaper.
Wall Street Journal Europe
Wall Street Journal Asia
Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.
Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.
Far Eastern Economic Review
Enterprise Media Group
Dow Jones Newswires - world's leading real-time news and information provider.
Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.
Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators.
Dow Jones Financial Information Services - produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialized markets and industry sectors.
Betten Financial News - leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.
Local Media Group
Ottoway Community Newspapers - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.
STOXX (33%)- joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.
Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).
SmartMoney (50%)
The Timesledger Newspapers in Queens, New York: Bayside Times, Whitestone Times, Flushing Times, Fresh Meadows Times, Little Neck Ledger, Jackson Heights Times, Richmond Hill Times, Jamaica Times, Laurelton Times, Queens Village Times, Astoria Times, Forest Hills Ledger, Ridgewood Ledger, Howard Beach Times
The Courier-Life Newspapers in Brooklyn
Caribbean Life
The Times-Herald Record

[edit] Magazines
SmartSource (weekly Sunday newspaper coupon insert/website)
TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
The Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.)
Australian
Alpha Magazine
Australian Country Style
Australian Golf Digest
Australian Good Taste
Big League
BCME
Delicious
Donna Hay
Fast Fours
GQ (Australia)
Gardening Australia
InsideOut (Aust)
Lifestyle Pools
Live to Ride
Notebook
Overlander 4WD
Modern Boating
Modern Fishing
Parents
Pure Health
Super Food Ideas
Truck Australia
Truckin' Life
twowheels
twowheels scooter
Vogue (Australia)
Vogue Entertaining & Travel
Vogue Living
Love it! (UK based Magazine)
InsideOut (UK Based Magazine)

[edit] Music / Radio
MySpace Records
India
Radio City (India radio station)(20%)held through STAR TV- commercial FM network with stations in 20 cities.
Russia
Nashe (50%)
Best FM (50%)

[edit] Sport
50% of the National Rugby League (Australia and New Zealand)
Majority ownership of the Brisbane Broncos (68.9%) and, full ownership of Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys rugby league teams.
Colorado Rockies (15%)

[edit] Studios
Fox Filmed Entertainment: 20th Century Fox's parent company
20th Century Fox: a film production company
20th Century Fox Television - primetime television programming.
20th Television - primetime television distribution.
Fox Searchlight Pictures - specialized films.
Fox 2000 Pictures - general audience feature films.
Fox Television Studios(productions)- market specific programming eg. COPS.
Fox Television Studios International
Fox World Productions
Fox World Australia
Fox TV Studios France
Fox TV Studios India
Natural History New Zealand - natural world documentaries, non-fiction programming.
Fox Atomic - produces theatrical films, comics, and digital content targeting the 17-24 year olds. Aiming to produce/acquire eight films per year over a range of genres, specifically action and horror
Fox Faith - Promotion and distribution of Christian and related "family friendly" movies on DVD and some theatrical release.
Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
Blue Sky Studios - production of CGI films eg. Ice Age.
Fox Entertainment Group
New Regency Productions (20%) - general audience feature films.
Regency Television (50%) - mainstream television shows.
Regency Enterprises (20%) - parent company of New Regency Productions (50%), and Regency Television (50%).

[edit] TV
News Corp agreed to sell eight of its television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for approximately $1.1 billion as of December 22, 2007. The stations are US FOX affiliates.[12]


[edit] Broadcast
Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX), a US broadcast television network
My Network TV, a US broadcast television network
Fox Television Stations Group, a group of owned and operated FOX television stations
Saeta TV Channel 10, channel of Uruguay
ITV plc (17.5%), a British broadcast television network and the UK's largest advertising revenue based broadcaster via BSkyB, although a recent legal decision will require this stake to be cut.
News Corp Europe
bTV, a broadcast television network in Bulgaria
B1 TV (12,5%), a broadcast television network in Romania, in partnership with Ismar International NV
Fox Televizija, a broadcast television network in Serbia (49%)
Fox Turkey, a Turkish terrestrial channel (56,5%) (formerly TGRT)
Imedi Media Holding(100%), a Georgian radio and TV broadcaster.
Imedi Television
Radio Imedi
TV Puls (35%), a terrestrial channel in Poland.
Israel 10 (9%), a terrestrial channel in Israel.
LNT (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
TV5 (70%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
ANTV (20%), a private television station in Indonesia, under the administration and label of STAR TV
Prime Television New Zealand - commercial TV station, interest held through stake in SKY Network Television

[edit] Satellite television
BSkyB, United Kingdom (39.1% holding).
Foxtel(25%), Australia, a joint venture with Telstra and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited
SKY Network Television , New Zealand (44%)
Sky Italia, Italian satellite TV service
Premiere AG (22.7%), Germany's largest pay TV provider.
STAR TV, an Asian satellite TV service
Phoenix Television (17.6%), satellite TV network with landing rights in Hong Kong, and select provinces on Mainland China
Tata Sky(20%), an Indian DTH TV service (in partnership with Tata Group)

[edit] Cable
CHANNELS

Fox Business Network, a business news channel.
Fox Classics, a channel airing solely classic movies
Fox Movie Channel, an all-movie channel that airs commercial-free movies from 20th Century Fox film library
Fox News Channel, a 24-hour news channel
Fox Reality, a 'Reality TV'-themed channel
Fox Sports Net, a chain of US regional cable television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local channels include "Fox Sports Southwest", "Fox Sports Bay Area", etc. (some affiliates are owned by Cablevision).
Fox College Sports, a college sports network consisting of three regionally-aligned channels
SportSouth, a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fox Sports International
Fox Soccer Channel, a United States digital cable network specializing mainly in soccer.
Fox Sports Middle East - English language sports network airing in Middle East countries including Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE & Yemen.
Fox Pan American Sports (37.9%) - joint venture with Hicks, Muse, and Tate & Furst.
Fox Sports en Español (50%), a Spanish-language North American cable sports network; its sports lineup is tailored to appeal to a Latin American audience.
Fox Sports en Latinoamérica, a Mexico-based Latin American satellite and cable sports network.
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.
SPEED Channel
FUEL TV
Big Ten Network, college football & basketball cable channel being launched Aug 2007 (49%)
National Geographic Channel (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine) 67%
National Geographic Channel International 75%
Fox International Channels, domestic cable channels offering different formats of Fox programming in over thirty countries worldwide.

Fox
Fox Life
Fox Life HD
Fox Crime
FX
Fox Horror
Fox Sports
Speed Channel
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel HD
National Geographic Wild
National Geographic Adventure
National Geographic Music
National Geographic Junior
Cult
Next HD
Voyage
The History Channel
Real Estate TV
Baby TV
Fox Toma 1 - Spanish language television production.
Fox Telecolombia - Spanish language television production. (51%)
Utarget.Fox - European and Latin American online ad company, plus now handles TV ad sales.
Latin America
Fox Latin American Channels - channels available in over 17 countries in Latin America
Baby TV
Canal FOX
Canal FX
Canal Fox Life
Canal Fox Reality
Canal Fox Sports
Canal Speed
Canal National Geographic Channel
Fox One-Stop Media - advertising sales for company owned and third party channels in Latin America
LAPTV (22.5%)(Latin American Pay Television) operates 8 cable movie channels throughout South America excluding Brazil.
Movie City
Cine Canal
Cine Canal Classics
City Vibe
City Mix
The Film Zone
Movie City HD
Movie City On Demand
Telecine(12.5%) operates 5 cable movie channels in Brazil.
Telecine Premium
Telecine Action
Telecine Light
Telecine Pipoca
Telecine Cult
Australia
Premier Media Group (50%)
Fox Sports One
Fox Sports Two
Fox Sports Three
FoxSportsNews
FUEL TV (Australia)
How To Channel
Premium Movie Partnership (20%) - movie channels, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox, Sony Universal, Paramount and Liberty Media
Showtime 1 & 2
Showtime Greats
PLATFORMS

India
Hathway Cable & Datacom (22.2%), India's 2nd largest cable network through 7 cities including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai & Pune
Taiwan
Total TV (20%), Pay TV platform with JV partner KOO's Group majority owner (80%). News Corp also has a 20% interest in the KOO's Group directly

[edit] Internet
Fox Interactive Media
Foxsports.com - website with sports news, scores, statistics, video and fantasy sports
MySpace - Social networking website, general interest website acquired through purchase from Intermix Media
MySpace TV, a video site which will host amateur videos, contents from net and studios that competes with Google YouTube
Photobucket - Photo sharing website.
Beliefnet - Largest online faith and spirituality network.
Hulu (45%) - online video download site in partnership with NBC Universal.
Flektor - provides Web-based tools for photo and video editing and mashups.
Grab.com - Entertainment/Games. (Acquired through purchase of Intermix Media)
IGN Entertainment - Internet entertainment portal (Includes the sites IGN, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes, TeamXbox, and Askmen.com)
Strategic Data Corp - interactive advertising company which develops technology to deliver targeted internet advertising.
Scout.com
WhatIfSports.com - sports simulation and prediction website. Also provides fantasy-style sports games to play.
Indya.com - 'India's no. 1 Entertainment Portal'
Jumptheshark.com owned through stake in GemstarTVGuide
ROO Group Inc (5% increasing to 10% with performance targets)
News Digital Media
News.com.au - Australian-oriented news website
News Lab
CareerOne.com.au
CarsGuide.com.au
in2mobi.com.au
TrueLocal.com.au
Moshtix.com.au
Learning Seat
Netus (75%) - investment co. in online properties.
Travel.com.au (19.59%)
Realestate.com.au (58%)
Casa.it (59.4%), Sky Italia also holds a 30.6% share
atHome group, operator of leading realestate websites in Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Germany.
Altowin (51%),provider of office management tools for realestate agents in Belgium.
Propertyfinder.com (50%), News International holds the remaining 50%
PropertyLook, property websites in Australia and New Zealand.
HomeSite.com.au, home renovation and improvement website.
Square Foot Limited, Hong Kong's largest English Language property magazine and website
Primedia - Holding co. of Inside DB, a Hong Kong lifestyle magazine.
TadpoleNet Media (10%) Hosts of ArmySailor.com
New Zealand
DVD Unlimited - leading online DVD subscription service (ownership through stake in Sky Network Television).

[edit] Other assets
NDS - Conditional access technology and personal digital video recorders (PVRs) (74%)
Jungo
Timothy Coville
ITE, publisher of Playstation and Mobile games, and interactive television
Orbis Technology, supplier of online gambling software
Broadsystem Ltd (UK) - Telephony provider for media companies, bought in 1991
Broadsystem Australia (Australia)
Broadsystem Ventures (UK) - provider of cheap-rate telephone calls, particularly for customers of Sky Television. Bought outright in 1999.
Jamba! - Mobile Entertainment/Mobile Handsets Personalization/Games. 51% majority stake acquired through deal with VeriSign in September 2006.
News Outdoor Group - Largest outdoor advertising company in Eastern Europe with over 70,000 ads including billboards and bus shelters, operating in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia (96 cities), Turkey & Ukraine.
Maximedia Israel (67%)
Mosgorreklama (50%) - Russia sign and marketing material manufacturer
Kamera Acikhava Reklamclik (?) - leading outdoor advertising company in Turkey
Australian Associated Press (45%) - real time news service.
Stats Inc (50%) - worlds leading provider of sporting information and statistical analysis (a JV with Associated Press)
Fox Sports Grill (50%) - Upscale sports bar and restaurant with 8 locations - Arizona, California, Seattle, New York, Dallas, Texas, Houston, Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Fox Sports Skybox (70%) - Sports fan's Bar & Grill at Staples Center and 6 airport restaurants.
News America Marketing (US) - (100%) - nation’s leading marketing services company, products include a portfolio of in-store, home-delivered and online media under the SmartSource brand.

[edit] Annual conference
News Corporation organises an annual management conference, discussing media related issues to geopolitics. Attendees include News Corporation executives, senior journalists, Politicians and Celebrities. Previous events were in Cancun, Mexico, and the Hayman Island off the coast of Australia. The events are private and secretive, there are no records available for the agenda or talks given at the conferences, and no uninvited journalists are permitted access.[13]

The 2006 event was in Pebble Beach, California, was led by Rupert Murdoch. According to a copy of the agenda leaked to the Los Angeles Times and other media accounts,[14] issues discussed related from Europe to broadcasting and new media, terrorism to the national policy.[15] The event occured in conjunction with the meeting of the Council of Foreign Relations, Freemasons and the Bavarian Illuminati. [14] issues discussed related from Europe to broadcasting and new media, terrorism to the national policy.[15] George Bush was unable to attend because of an engagement at Bohemian Grove. [14] issues discussed related from Europe to broadcasting and new media, terrorism to the national policy.[15] The event included speeches from Rupert Murdoch, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono, Al Gore, Senator John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton while Israeli vice-premier, Shimon Peres, will appear on a panel named Islam and the West. The Other notable attendees include Newt Gingrich and Nicole Kidman.


[edit] See also
List of conglomerates
List of assets owned by News Corporation

[edit] References
^ News Corporation - Annual Report 2007
^ News No. 1 in the world with $67.8 bil
^ Rupert Murdoch celebrates market milestone | NEWS.com.au Business
^ Revolution on Fleet Street - TIME
^ Revolution on Fleet Street - TIME
^ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i118a16d2ff59590bd77181d8da9c9fb9 Fox Business makes TV debut, Hollywood Reporter, 16 October 2007]. Accessed: 10-17-2007.
^ Fox Business Network blazes new trail, USA Today, 14 October 2007. Accessed: 10-17-2007.
^ Fox Business: Fluff meets financial, Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 October 2007. Accessed: 10-17-2007.
^ News Corp Murdoch trust sells shares - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News
^ "Murdoch's son sees pay doubled ahead of exit"
^ Charlie Rose - Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
^ Kercheval, Nancy and Danielle Rossingh. "News Corp. to Sell U.S. TV Stations for $1.1 Billion (Update5)", Bloomberg.com, 2007-12-22. Retrieved on 2007-12-22.
^ "Murdoch's Pebble Beach shindig", Autralian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ a b c "Bono and Blair to join Murdoch on the beach", Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
^ a b c "The PM, the mogul and the secret agenda", Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.

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NOW YOU BETTER WATCH WHAT YOU READ, LISTEN TO, OR WATCH, FOR YOU WILL BE ADDING TO THE FCC AND RUPERT MURDOCK'S FORTUNE...

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 10:15 am

Great story, Boots!

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 2:54 pm
Faux News - We Distort, You Abide..;)

Tuesday April 29, 2008, 10:06 pm
If only I could watch Fox news, just to see what all this fuss is about. I do remember that I considered Fox to be the sleaze channel back when we could get that station.

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 12:31 am
It's no wonder of the repug numbers who watch Faux News, birds of a feather stick together after all. I stopped watching any of their affiliates years ago after I became disgusted with the sensationalizing of news stories for viewership. This seems to be their trademark, using high emotion to report news to get their viewers to react. Sleazy tactics, not what I expect from a news report. Just give me the facts, with no emotion and allow ME to decide!
IMO, those who watch Faux don't want to think for themselves, allowing others to decide for them.
Thanx Robert for this reminder of how important it is to get your news from reliable sources!

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 9:40 am

Thanks Robert..
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Wednesday April 30, 2008, 3:26 pm
I am a conservative. I get all news - the Democrats, Libertarians, Communists, Rush Limbaugh, enviros, Republicans, everyone.

Here is my public statement: I own stock in Public Service Enterprise Group, a nuclear firm. PSEG had an accident at a nuclear power plant in Illinois. Senator Barack Obama then introduced some bills regulating the nuclear industry. Subsequently, PSEG donated campaign money to Senator Obama, and he weakened his bills.

I ask anyone who lives near the five nuclear power plants owned by PSEG if they experience any problems or fears. I promise work with you.

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 7:12 pm
Fox doesn't show news,it shows extreme right wing propaganda.Rupert Murdoch has an agenda to wipe away anything that stands in the way of unregulated free markets.His channels,spew out slanted 'news' items,told only from his own ultra-rightist perspective.In this agenda,patriotism is used as a means of subjagation,covert racism is a constant,and those who seek a fairer world are stigmatised as enemies.His lumpen henchmen,bully anyone who expresses an alternative opinion,and democracy is trampled underfoot.
Fox/Sky etc own many media outlets throughout the world,and Murdoch has the ear of senior government figures in many countries.His corporations are the biggest threat to democracy that the world has seen,since Stalin and Hitler.
Here in the UK,his Sun newspaper (an awful tabloid,aimed at ingratiating itself to a working class readership),has influenced elections,influenced government policy,and undermined notions of fairplay,community and decency.Stories are told of the rottenness of trade unionists,attacks on ethnic minorities,gay people,social welfare etc are a constant.My own parents read this hideous paper,and like many people,do not consider editorial perspective,ownership ,bias etc when interpreting what they read.They repeat the lies,half truths,and one sided reports,they read .It makes me fearful,and sad.

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 7:32 pm
Kevin Martin and the 4 Republicans controlling the FCC have and are doing everything in their power to further consolidation and more media monopolization. Even with the tremendous outpouring of protests against more monopolizion the FCC arrogantly voted in favor of it. Now the Senate Commerce Committee has said no....enough is enough. But of course this will have to pass the House and Senate..which will probably be hard to do with the lobbyists having so many Congressmen in their back pockets.

Senate Commerce Committee says no to more media consolidation

Common Cause commends the Senate Commerce Committee for voting unanimously to pass a resolution disapproving a Federal Communications Commission rule that could clear the way for more media consolidation.

“Both Republicans and Democrats came together today to send a message to the FCC that greater media consolidation is the wrong direction for this country,” said Common Cause President Bob Edgar. “Our media functions as the source of information the public uses to determine how to vote, how to participate in government and when to hold elected officials accountable. With limited sources of information because of consolidation, the public will not get the information it needs, when it needs it.”

The resolution would essentially veto the FCC’s new rules that allow for greater media consolidation in many of America’s media markets. Sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), the resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28) was introduced in March.

Common Cause now urges its passage in both the full House and Senate.

Wednesday April 30, 2008, 11:10 pm
Faux News does NOT practice journalism,
which is what makes them as useful as
tits on a chicken.
This news does not surprise me at all.
The sheeple have to have SOMETHING to
watch!
Baaaah!....Baaaah!

Thanks, Boots!
noted.

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Thursday May 1, 2008, 4:31 pm
In response to this totalitarian consolidation,I have set up a petition on my (United Kingdom)governments website.For any democratic and fairminded Brit's out there,it is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Balanced-Press/ The petition concerns setting up a committee to look at democratising/widening press access.Our press is overwhelmingly slanted to the right,and other views are being squeezed out.It is only a free press,to billionaires/mega-rich megolamaniacs,who can buy or create a printing press,employ thousands,then set the agenda and appoint editors.Where is the freedom?..or does that word just mean freedom to do as they tell us,these days?