Accordi
Girano voci di un accordo tra Rupert Murdoch (capo della NEWS CORPORATION) e Tronchetti Provera (patron di Telecom e Pirelli). Per far capire la portata del primo interlocutore, pubblico di seguito l'impressionante lista di controllate della NEWS CORPORATION (fonte Wikipedia):
Editoria
HarperCollins book publishing company
ReganBooks
Zondervan Christian book publisher
Giornali
Australia
The Australian (Nationwide)
The Weekend Australian (Nationwide)
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)
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 Mail (South Australia)
The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
The Mercury (Tasmania)
The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)
Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)
Fiji
Fiji Times (National)
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National)
UK newspapers, published by News International Ltd.
News Group Newspapers Ltd.
the tabloid The 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 broadsheet The Times Educational Supplement
the broadsheet The Times Literary Supplement
US newspapers and magazines
the New York Post
Riviste
SmartSource
TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide
The Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.)
Wired
Alpha Magazine
Love It (UK based Magazine
InsideOut(UK Based Magazine)
The Travel Magazine (UK Based Magazine)
Dannii (UK Based Magazine)
Musica
Festival Mushroom Records This business was sold by the company in October 2005.
Sport
50% of National Rugby League (Australia and New Zealand)
Majority ownership of the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys rugby league teams.
40% of Staples Center News Corporation's interest in this company was sold in May 2004
9.8% of the Los Angeles LakersNews Corporation's interest in this company was sold in May 2004
Studios
20th Century Fox film production company
Fox Searchlight
Fox Television Studios
Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
Fox Studios Baja, Rosarito, Baja California
Blue Sky Studios
TV
Broadcast
Fox Broadcasting Company, a US-wide broadcast television network
My Network TV, a US broadcast television network (to be launched September 2006)
Fox Television Stations Group
bTV, a broadcast television network in Bulgaria
Fox Televizija, a broadcast television network in Serbia (expected to start broadcasting soon)
ANTV, a private television station in Indonesia, under the administration and label of STAR TV
TGRT, a Turkish terrestrial channel
Televisione satellitare
BSkyB, United Kingdom (37.9% holding).
DirecTV Group, North and South America (36.8% holding)
DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider
DirectTV Latin America
Sky Brasil (co-owned with Globopar)
Sky Mexico
Foxtel, Australia (25% holding)
Sky Italia, Italian satellite TV service
STAR TV, an Asian satellite TV service
Tata Sky, an Indian DTH TV service (20% holding)
Cable
Fox College Sports, College Sports Network that consisits of 3 regionally aligned channels
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 still owned by Cablevision).
Fox Soccer Channel, a United States digital cable network specializing mainly in soccer.
Fox Sports en Español, 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.
Foxtel (25%), Australia's largest satellite and cable pay TV provider, a joint venture with Telstra and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited
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.
National Geographic Channel (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine) 67%
National Geographic Channel International 50%
SPEED Channel
Fuel Channel
Fox Reality Channel
Big Ten Channel
Internet
MySpace - Social networking website. (Aquired through purchase of Intermix Media).
Grab.com - Entertainment/Games. (Aquired through purchase of Intermix Media)
IGN Entertainment - Internet entertainment portal (Includes the sites IGN, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes and Askmen.com)
News.com.au - Australian-oriented news website
What if Sports.com
Scout.com
Altro
(NDS) - Conditional access technology and personal digital video recorders (PVRs)
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.