Rupert Murdoch: News Group Holdings.

It covers -

• book publishing
• terrestrial broadcast, cable and satellite
• magazines and inserts
• film production and distribution
• newspapers
• sport
• radio
• technology and multimedia
• music
• outdoor advertising
• other

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, now part of ITV
• 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
• Jamba (51%) - ringtones

Disposals in recent years include Australian pastoral company F.S. Falkiner & Sons (2000)