[Closed] News of the World RIP

BOOM!

And all this Sunday's revenue going to good causes looks like news international attempting a bit of damage limitation ...but will it be enough?
glad to see NOTW go though

with ad income evaporating....well, inevitable.

i can't be alone in hoping the Daily Mail has done some phone hacking as well...

...and Ms Brooks strolls off into the sunset.

If the Daily Mail didnt exist, youd have to invent it though HH.

Allegedly this Weekend's issue will be the last.

I have it on good authority, although I clearly can not publish either the transcripts or the original voicemail messages, that this is indeed true.

to be replaced by the sunday sun no doubt.

I'm sure they will just rebrand it "the World of News" and have a relaunch next week.

This Sunday's issue of the News of the World will be the last edition of the paper, News International chairman James Murdoch has said.

No 'allegedly' about it. They must be [i]desperate[/i] for the Sky deal to go through to take this step.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733

A sad day as the ones responsible responsible will now not be sacked, but made redundant or transfered probably.

I'll believe it when I see it. I reckon sales may well increase this w/e and advertisers will find it hard to stay away

They must be desperate for the Sky deal to go through to take this step.....

Surely they'll just replace it with the Sun on Sunday or something similar

I have it on good authority, although I clearly can not publish either the transcripts or the original voicemail messages, that this is indeed true.

It's Ok we can read it on the BBC website too.

Feeble attempt to win public back.

Is there going to be room at the Daily Star for all these former NOTW bent journos? Clive Goodman's going to end up having to share a desk. He'll hate that 🙂

Not sure this will work though; for NI to take this step they've effectively rolled over and accepted that they're fully culpable.

Rebekah Brooks will clearly go, but the real question is what happens to the rest of the organisation, the one that for the last five years has consistently covered up the fact that they were absolutely guilty as charged.

As someone who detests Sky, The Sun, The News Of The World and all that they stand for, this is almost as good a day as when I heard Thatcher had resigned. Not [i]quite[/i] as good, obviously, but still well worth celebrating.

Interesting to see who blinks first.

The people pulling their adverts are on a 'moral' bandwagon at the moment, but how long before Ford start realising Volkswagen are still advertising (and presumably getting sales due to the adverts...).

What "news" are they going to put in it?
They ARE the biggest story.

The people pulling their adverts are on a 'moral' bandwagon at the moment, but how long before Ford start realising Volkswagen are still advertising (and presumably getting sales due to the adverts...).

Advertise in what?

to be replaced by the sunday sun no doubt.

You'll be a Southerner then.

[url= http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/ ]http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/[/url]

A Geordie stalwart paper.

Advertise in what?

Good point I suppose if they bring NOTW down. Though expect the prices of advertising Fords to go up on Sky if Murdoch gets the hump!

Good point I suppose if they bring NOTW down.

It's gone, that was my point.

I've always seen the NOTW as a "Sunday Sun" anyway...in much the same way as The Observer is a "Sunday Guardian"...is that miles off the mark?

poor old Max Clifford what he going to do now !

no DD spot on really in that they have the same views and from the same stable bit different editorships and writers [ if that sounds sarcastic it is not meant to]
Yes nice bold PR move but ditching NOTW which is dead now anyway and launching the Sunday Sun is quite a clever ploy.
Nice to see them running scared for once.

I've always seen the NOTW as a "Sunday Sun" anyway...in much the same way as The Observer is a "Sunday Guardian"...is that miles off the mark?

Pretty much bang on. Assuming that there is commercial life left in trashy Sunday papers it wouldn't take a great deal of effort to spend 6 months putting together a new brand identity and launching a new companion paper for the Sun.

the notw also ran real investigative journalism agaist bad guys as well as the salacious stuff. It was a whole cut above the sun

Oh right, I thought the writers were shared...I stand corrected.

The Sunday sport must be rubbing there hands. Whilst the new readers of said paper will be rubbing something else entirely. 😯

200 staff to loose their jobs= 200 people with a grudge against murdoch,

Oh good times ahead

We are not alone in our cynicism;

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said: "All they're going to do is rebrand it" and former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who alleged his phone was hacked, thought the decision was simply a gimmick.

200 staff to loose their jobs= 200 [b][u]more[/u] [/b] people with a grudge against murdoch,

Nice thought, but a drop in the ocean really.

All papers are suffering, with dropping reader numbers and dropping advertising revenues, so dropping one will probally do him a favour.

The regular readers will be informed of what to buy next week in this last issue.... 😉

200ish less staff to pay, one less print run etc etc etc

Just heard the website sunonsunday was registered a few days ago.

Really?

Domain Name: SUNONSUNDAY.COM
Registrar: REGISTER.IT SPA
Whois Server: whois.register.it
Referral URL: http://we.register.it
Name Server: NS1.TH.SEEWEB.IT
Name Server: NS2.TH.SEEWEB.IT
Status: ok
Updated Date: 25-sep-2010
Creation Date: 24-sep-2007
Expiration Date: 24-sep-2011

Really?

the co.uk was registered on the 5th July.

Although it looks to be a domain name squatter to me.

.net looks like it was created today.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.MONIKERDNS.NET 208.73.210.41
NS2.MONIKERDNS.NET 208.73.211.42
NS3.MONIKERDNS.NET 208.73.210.43
NS4.MONIKERDNS.NET 208.73.211.44

Record created on: 2011-07-07 12:22:50.0
Database last updated on: 2011-07-07 12:34:50.42
Domain Expires on: 2012-07-07 12:22:50.0

I doubt NI will use 123-reg I bet someone is trying to be clever.

Domain name:
sunonsunday.co.uk

Registrant:
Mediaspring

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Registrar:
Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 05-Jul-2011
Renewal date: 05-Jul-2013
Last updated: 07-Jul-2011

Looking at variants of Sun and Sunday in the title there's a few been done today and the last couple of days. People trying to be box clever I guess.

Yeah I reckon there'll be a few new cybersquaters

Even sky news is reporting the demise, saying staff are going wild in the building.

Presumably simply sidestepped by saying the sun will be published 7 days a week.

https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Jemima_Khan

Jemima_Khan Jemima Khan
Just heard that Coulson to be arrested this afternoon

How would she know first?

pretty clever move on behalf of News International, under the circumstances

According to my paper :

[i]"The move also opens the way for a seven-day Sun newspaper, [b]which it is believed News International has been planning for some time[/b] as part of a cost-cutting drive"[/i]

http://www.****/news/article-2012326/James-Murdoch-announces-NOTW-close-Sunday.html?ITO=1490

And :

[b][i]"Ms Brooks, surrounded by her closest allies, then went out on to the newsroom floor to tell the rest of the staff the news.

She said: ''The Guardian newspaper were out to get us, and they got us.'

Observers said that she was crying when she spoke".[/i][/b]

So it's the Guardian wot dun it ?

So it's the Guardian wot dun it ?

There's nothing quite so grating as the sanctimonious GG 😉

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* actually related to 2003 privacy stuff, but probably still representative up to a point.

How would she know first?

Jeremy Clarkson told her.

She got big hairs ...

Anyway, who actually read this newspaper anyway?

Oh well ...

There's nothing quite so grating as the sanctimonious GG

Have you been reading Tebbit's blog or something?

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Observers said that she was crying when she spoke".

Radio 4 reported from their 'anonymous source' inside NOTW that she was in there for all of 2 minutes, flanked by security, and she was definitly not crying. But then I expect someone will come along and accuse the Beeb of being partisan about it too. 😕

Lord Prescott interviewed earlier on was well funny. I'd sort of forgotten quite how errr, 'forthright' he can sound sometimes. 😆

she was definitly not crying

Maybe she was stifling a laugh (you're all getting sacked because of me, but I'm keeping my incredibly powerful and well-paid job) it can be difficult to tell sometimes.

the notw also ran real investigative journalism agaist bad guys as well as the salacious stuff. It was a whole cut above the sun

real investigative journalism agaist bad guys

Just heard that Coulson to be arrested this afternoon

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/andy-coulson-arrest-phone-hacking ]Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow[/url]

[i]"a second arrest is also to be made in the next few days of a former senior journalist at the paper"[/i]

It's starting to look like the folding of NoW is in anticipation of full-blown chaos, as the scandal starts resulting in the arrests of senior former staff. It doesn't appear to make any commercial sense.

Reading this made me realise how many news headlines I first learn about from the STW chat forum. Luckily, I'm sure everyone here is 100% reliable.

I'm sure everyone here is 100% reliable

I pay good money for my information - you can be certain that it is reliable.

I am worried that this whole scandal may lead to some sort of legislation that ends up protecting "the establishment" rather than the public.

Anybody got any links to some of this "proper investigative journalism" carried out by the NOTW, they certainly seemed to hide it well behind all the ground-breaking tabloid sleaze.

Anybody got any links to some of this "proper investigative journalism" carried out by the NOTW, they certainly seemed to hide it well behind all the ground-breaking tabloid sleaze.

Edit for clarity: 😉

Great tenacity by the Guardian - did anyone see this coming? They were being ridiculed 2 years back for banging on about the story, having an axe to grind etc (e.g. Sienna Miller's phone hacked by lone PI who's already done time for it - hardly a story that would bring down the NotW). They must have known how deep it ran and it would break open if they just kept chipping away at it.

j_me - Member

Mazhur Mahmood

The fake sheik is your best link for investagitive journalism, entrapment and sleaze mongering is the lowest common denominator of investigative journalism.

[i]In 1999, after a Mahmood investigation exposed the Earl of Hardwicke and another man as drug dealers,[13] the jury sent a note to the judge explaining that they had reached their decision to convict the two men with great reluctance. They said that they would have acquitted the defendants if the law had enabled them to take into account the "extreme provocation" they had been under to sell cocaine to Mahmood. The judge agreed and passed suspended sentences.[9][1[/i]

I wasn't being serious!

What I want to know is, where's Fred?

What I want to know is, where's Fred?

Paper round?

What I want to know is, where's Fred?

Probbly gone for a job interview at N.I.

If this all carries on and it moves onto a general Murdoch hate campaign whats the chances of a total failure or very damaging impact to News Corp/ ala BP and the whole oil leak thing?

Mass share price drop or something?

Im dreaming that Murdoch has some bad times ahead.

did anyone see this coming?

I can't be alone in remarking, back then, that this would slow burn before igniting. (Indeed, my wife just said "Well, you were right". How I wish I was recording that conversation....)

After my last post I thought I'f have a look at News Corp and see what other holdings they are involved with.

Holy crap.... I had no idea this was such a big operation.

I know its wikipedia but:

Holdings

Books

HarperCollins book publishing company
HarperCollins India (40%)[clarification needed] joint venture with India Today Group
Zondervan Christian book publisher
Inspirio - religious gift production.

Newspapers

Australia published by News Limited.
The Australian (Nationwide)
Community Media Group (16 QLD & NSW suburban/regional titles)
Cumberland-Courier Newspapers (23 suburban/commuter 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 (33 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) (10%)
Nai Lalakai (10%)
Shanti Dut (10%)
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 Sun (published in Scotland as The Scottish Sun and in Ireland as The Irish Sun)
News of the World (ending publication 10 July 2011)
Times Newspapers Ltd.
The Sunday Times
The Times
The Times Literary Supplement
US newspapers and magazines
The New York Post
Community Newspaper Group
The Brooklyn Paper
Bronx Times-Reporter
Brooklyn Courier-Life
Queens Times Ledger
Dow Jones & Company
Consumer Media Group
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal Europe
Wall Street Journal Asia
Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.
Marke****ch - Financial news and information website.
Far Eastern Economic Review
Enterprise Media Group
Dow Jones Newswires - global, 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, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Dow Jones Financial Information Services - produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.
Betten Financial News - leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.
Local Media Group
Ottaway 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
The Timesledger Newspapers of 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
The Brooklyn Paper
Caribbean Life
Times-Herald Record (Middletown, New York)

[edit] Magazines

News America Marketing (Smartsource) (weekly Sunday newspaper coupon insert/website)
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
InsideOut (UK Based Magazine)

[edit] Music and radio

Fox Film Music Group

[edit] 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 the Melbourne Storm rugby league team.
Colorado Rockies (15%)

[edit] Studios

Fox Filmed Entertainment: 20th Century Fox's parent company
20th Century Fox: a film production/distribution company
Fox Searchlight Pictures - specialized films.
Fox 2000 Pictures - general audience feature films.
20th Century Fox Television - primetime television programming.
20th Television - television distribution (syndication).
Fox 21 - low scripted/budgeted television production company.
Fox Television Studios (productions)- market specific programming e.g. COPS and network television company.
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 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 e.g. Ice Age.
Fox Entertainment Group
New Regency Productions (20%) - general audience feature films.
Regency Enterprises (20%) - parent company of New Regency Productions (50%).
BSkyB Studios London, England
FOX Star Studios New Delhi,India

[edit] TV

News Corp agreed to sell eight of its television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for approximately $1.1 billion as of 22 December 2007. The stations are US Fox affiliates.[32]
[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 (7.5%), a British broadcast television network and the UK's largest advertising revenue based broadcaster

News Corp Europe
bTV, a broadcast television network in Bulgaria. They sold this to CME in February 2010.
B1 TV (12,5%), a broadcast television network in Romania, in partnership with Ismar International NVkkkk
Fox Televizija, a broadcast television network in Serbia (49%). They sold this to Antenna Group in January 2010
Fox Turkey, a Turkish terrestrial channel (56,5%) (formerly TGRT)
Imedi Media Holding (100%), a Georgian radio and TV broadcaster.
Imedi Television
Radio Imedi
Israel 10 (9%), a terrestrial channel in Israel.
LNT (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
TV5 Riga (100%), a terrestrial channel in Latvia
Cielo (100%), a free channel in Italy

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

British Sky Broadcasting, United Kingdom & Ireland (39.1% holding). In practice, a controlling interest.
SKY Network TV, New Zealand (44%)
SKY Italy, Italian satellite TV service
SKY México, Latin American satellite TV service
SKY Brasil, Brazilian satellite TV servive
SKY Germany (49.90%), Germany's largest pay TV provider
SKY Tata (20%), an Indian DTH HDTV service (in partnership with Tata Group)
Foxtel (25%), Australia, a joint venture with Telstra (50%) and Consolidated Media Holdings (25%)
FOX Italy, Italian Broadcast and Production Company (with 2 HDTV)
STAR TV, an Asian satellite TV service having 300 million viewers in 53 countries (it acquired STAR Vijay and Asianet, (two prominent south Indian networks)
Phoenix Television (17.6%), satellite TV network with landing rights in Hong Kong, and select provinces on Mainland China.

[edit] Cable

Cable TV channels owned (in whole or part) and operated by News Corporation include:

Fox Business Network, a business news channel.
Fox Classics, a channel airing classic TV shows & movies
Fox Movie Channel, an all-movie channel that airs commercial-free movies from 20th Century Fox's film library
Fox News Channel, a 24-hour news & opinion channel
Fox Sports Net, a chain of US regional cable news television networks broadcasting local sporting events linked together by national sports news programming. Local channels include "Fox Sports Southwest", "Fox Sports Detroit", etc. (some affiliates are owned by Cablevision).
SportSouth, a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and affiliate of Fox Sports Net.
Sun Sports a regional sports network in the United States, with its headquarters in Miami, Florida, and affiliate of Fox Sports Net.
Fox College Sports, a college sports network consisting of three regionally aligned channels, mostly with archived Fox Sports Net programs but also some live and original content.
Fox Sports International
Fox Soccer Channel, a United States digital cable and satellite network specializing mainly in soccer.
Fox Soccer Plus, a sister network to FSC, but including coverage of other sports, most notably rugby union. Launched in 2010 after News Corporation picked up many of the broadcast rights abandoned by Setanta Sports when it stopped broadcasting in the U.S.
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 programs The Shield and Damages.
Speed Channel
FUEL TV
Big Ten Network, cable and satellite channel dedicated to The Big Ten Conference, launched Aug 2007 (49%)
National Geographic Channel (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine) 67%
National Geographic Channel International 75%
National Geographic Wild (joint venture with National Geographic Magazine)
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 Movies
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
Real Estate TV
BabyTV
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.
Middle & South America
Fox Latin American Channels - channels available in over 17 countries in Latin America
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel HD
National Geographic Wild
Nat Geo Music
Universal Channel
Universal HD
Fox Channel
Fox HD
FX
Fox Life
Syfy
Fox Sports
Speed Channel
Baby TV
Utilisima
Fox One-Stop Media - advertising sales for company owned and third party channels in Latin America
LAPTV (60%) (Latin American Pay Television) operates 8 cable movie channels throughout South America excluding Brazil.
Telecine(12.5%) operates 5 cable movie channels in Brazil.
Australia
Premier Media Group (50%)
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
Fox Sports 3
SPEED
FoxSportsNews
Fuel TV Australia
Premium Movie Partnership (20%) - movie channels, a joint venture between 20th Century Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, Viacom and Liberty Media

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
Hulu (27%) - online video streaming site in partnership with NBC Universal and The Walt Disney Company.
Flektor - provides Web-based tools for photo and video editing and mashups.
IGN Entertainment - Internet entertainment portal (Includes the sites IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, and Askmen.com)
Giga.de
Slingshot Labs - web development incubator (Includes the sites DailyFill).
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'
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 (50%) - recruitment advertisement website in partnership with Monster Worldwide.
Carsguide.com.au
in2mobi.com.au
TrueLocal.com.au
Moshtix.com.au – a ticket retailer
Learning Seat
Wego News owns minority stake in Wego.com
Netus (75%) - investment co. in online properties.
REA Group (60.7%)
Realestate.com.au
Casa.it (69.4%), 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%
Sherlock Publications, owner of hotproperty.co.uk portal and magazine titles 'Hot Property', 'Renting' and 'Overseas'
ukpropertyshop.co.uk, most comprehensive UK estate agent directory.
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).
Fox Networks - one of the largest international ad networks.
Expedient InfoMedia blog network.

[edit] Other assets

NDS - Conditional access technology and personal digital video recorders (PVRs) (49%)
Jungo
Timothy Coville
ITE, publisher of PlayStation and Mobile games, and interactive television
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 Personalisation/Games.
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 7 locations - Scottsdale, Arizona; Irvine, California; Seattle, Washington; Plano, Texas; Houston, Texas; San Diego, California; 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.
Rotana (9%) - Largest Arab entertainment company owned by Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal
The Daily - iPad only newspaper delivered daily.
Making Fun - social game developer for making games for social networking sites, smartphones, tablets and other devices.[33]

Why anyone reads those trashy tabloids I do not know!

whats the chances of a total failure

None - all of Murdoch's UK titles, including News of the World, account for just 4% of News Corporation's turnover.

ernie - ive just noticed that.

It just seems like another cycnical ploy. Killing off a paper that it seems was going to morph into the Sun on Sunday. Do what you were going to do anyway and perhaps clean out the few troublesome remaining staff with ethics.

Surely its time for campaign to stop the sun rising next week, whole country stop buying the paper for a week. Unfortunately based on ernie's 4% stat it would be a gnatt bite, even if it was possible to do it.

Some legal eagles are suggesting the closure could protect News International from further exposure and legal cases.

no i'm not having that. they've closed the n.o.w as a deeply felt act of contrition.

Surely its time for campaign to stop the sun rising next week

Good luck. Everyone will want a historical last ever edition of The News Of The World this Sunday. And everyone will want a historical first ever edition of The Sun On Sunday the following Sunday.

I know I will.

I didnt have you done as a paper buyer Ernie?

What we now need is a serious investigation, by an investigative newspaper,that dishes the dirt, gets people thinking and the culprits sacked or imprisoned, like which has happened in the past.

Sadly Rupert just closed it.

If voicemails were deleted and / or resulting in investigations being hampered, people should be sent to prison, not sacked.

Anyway, what about the 'Sun day'?