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Here are some of News Corp.'s holdings:
• the US. Fox television network;
• twenty-two US. television stations, covering 40 percent of the US. population;
• Fox News Channel, US. and international TV network;
• 50 percent stake in Ex, fxM, Fox Sports Net, Fox Kids Worldwide, Family Channel TV channels;
• 33 percent stake in Golf TV Channel;
• film studio Twentieth Century Fox;
• Twentieth Television, US. and international TV production and distribution group;
• over 130 daily newspapers; including Times of London and the New York Post, controlling 70 percent of Australia's newspaper circulation;
• 23 magazines;
• 40 percent stake in United Video Satellite Group, publisher of TV Guide and interactive TV technology company;
• 30 percent stake in Echostar, US. satellite television company;
• book publishing, including Harper-Collins;
• the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team;
• minority stake in the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers;
• option to purchase 40 percent stake in Los Angeles Kings NHL hockey team and 10 percent of Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team;
• controlling interest in British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) satellite TV service;
• through BSkyB, 32.5 percent stake in British Interactive Broadcasting, interactive television service;
• numerous Sky TV channels distributed across Britain and parts of Europe including Sky News;
• partial stake in Music Choice Europe TV channels;
• Latin American TV channels El Canal Fox and Fox Sport Noticias;
• 30 percent stake in Latin Sky Broadcasting satellite TV service to Latin America, joint venture with AT&T-TCI, Televisa, and Globo;
• following additional Latin American TV holdings: 20 percent stake in Cinecanal, pay~~ service; 12 percent stake in Telecine, Brazilian payTV service;
• 66 percent stake in Munich TV station TM-3
• 50 percent stake in German Vox TV network;
• controlling interest in Italian pay-TV venture, Stream;
• minority stake in Taurus, holding company that owns German Kirch media group (pending);
• Fox TV Channel (the Netherlands);
• the following European radio interests: 71 percent stake in Sky radio; 42 percent stake in Radio 5 ;8; 28 percent stake in Sky radio Sweden;
• 80 percent stake in New Zealand's Natural History Unit, the world's leading producer of nature and wildlife documentaries;
• Heritage Media, leading US. direct marketing company, with 1996 revenues over $500 million;
• partial stakes in two eastern European telecommunication companies: PLD Telekom (30.2 percent) and PeterStar (11 percent);
• Asian Star TV satellite TV service;
• pan-Asian TV channels: ESPN and Star Sports (four Asian channels), Channel V music channel (four Asian channels) joint venture with major record companies, Star World, Star Plus, Star Movies (nine Asian channels);
• 50 percent stake in Indian TV channels Zee TV, El TV and Zee Cinema;
• partial stake in Indian cable TV company Siti Cable;
• partial stake in Indonesian pay TV venture Indovision and Film Indonesia pay TV channel;
• I 1.375 percent stake, with Sony, Fuji TV and Softbank, in Japan SkyPerfecTV Broadcasting satellite TV system;
• Star Chinese Channel, broadcast across Taiwan;
• 45 percent interest in Phoenix Chinese Channel, satellite TV service for mainland China;
• partial interest in Golden Mainland Productions, TV joint venture with Taiwan Sports Development;
• Australian TV channel FoxTel;
• controlling interest in New Zealand's Independent Newspapers Ltd., controls 52 percent of New Zealand's ,' newspaper circulation, and owns 40 percent of New Zealand's Sky Television.
• partial interest in ChinaByte, website joint venture with China's People's Daily;
• India Sky Broadcasting, satellite TV service;
• 50 percent stake, Australian National Rugby League;
• British First Division soccer team, Manchester United (pending approval).