News Corporation is a diversified global media and entertainment company with operations split into eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corp. are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United

Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. Mr.Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corp.

A crucial element of News Corp's television strategy is its satellite platforms. Digital platforms such as STAR (Pan Asian), BSkyB (United Kingdom), Sky Italia (Italy) attract millions of subscribers, allowing them to receive hundreds of channels based on innovative digital technologies.

News Corp's broadcast television operations include the FOX broadcast network, while its cable programming segment includes Fox News Channel, National Geographic, SPEED Channel and many of the most watched networks in North and South America, Asia and Europe.

News Corp. is the world's leading publisher of English-language newspapers, with operations in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US. The Company publishes more than 175 newspapers including the oldest British newspaper, The Times, and one of the biggest-selling daily newspapers in the world, The Sun in the UK. News Corp. also owns HarperCollins, one of the world’s leading book publishers.

News Corp’s 20th Century Fox film studio was the source of such blockbusters as Star Wars and Titanic.

While News Corp. has a multinational business structure, the corporate management respects the local cultures of the countries where the Company has its subsidiary operations.

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