Annual Report 2007 Creating and distributing top-quality news, sports and entertainment around the world. News Corporation As of June 30, 2007 Filmed Entertainment WJBK Detroit, MI Latin America United States KRIV Houston, TX Cine Canal 33% Fox Filmed Entertainment KTXH Houston, TX Telecine 13% Twentieth Century Fox Film KMSP Minneapolis, MN Australia and New Zealand Corporation WFTC Minneapolis, MN Premium Movie Partnership 20% Fox 2000 Pictures WTVT Tampa Bay, FL Fox Searchlight Pictures KSAZ Phoenix, AZ Cable Network Programming Fox Atomic KUTP Phoenix, AZ United States Fox Music WJW Cleveland, OH FOX News Channel Twentieth Century Fox Home KDVR Denver, CO Fox Cable Networks Entertainment WRBW Orlando, FL FX Twentieth Century Fox Licensing WOFL Orlando, FL Fox Movie Channel and Merchandising KTVI St. Louis, MO Fox Regional Sports Networks Blue Sky Studios WDAF Kansas City, MO (15 owned and operated) (a) Twentieth Century Fox Television WITI Milwaukee, WI Fox Soccer Channel Fox Television Studios KSTU Salt Lake City, UT SPEED Twentieth Television WBRC Birmingham, AL FSN Regency Television 50% WHBQ Memphis, TN Fox Reality Asia WGHP Greensboro, NC Fox College Sports Balaji Telefilms 26% KTBC Austin, TX Fox International Channels Latin America WUTB Baltimore, MD Big Ten Network 49% Canal Fox WOGX Gainesville, FL Fox Sports Net Bay Area 40% Asia Fox Pan American Sports 38% Television STAR National Geographic Channel – United States STAR PLUS International 75% FOX Broadcasting Company STAR ONE National Geographic Channel – MyNetworkTV STAR CHINESE CHANNEL Domestic 67% Fox Television Stations STAR WORLD National Geographic Channel – WNYW New York, NY STAR UTSAV Latin America 67% WWOR New York, NY VIJAY National Geographic Channel – KTTV Los Angeles, CA XING KONG Europe 25% KCOP Los Angeles, CA STAR CHINESE MOVIES STATS, LLC 50% WFLD Chicago, IL STAR MOVIES Australia WPWR Chicago, IL STAR GOLD Premier Media Group 50% WTXF Philadelphia, PA STAR NEWS 26% KDFW Dallas, TX STAR ANANDA 26% Direct Broadcast Satellite KDFI Dallas, TX STAR MAJHA 26% WFXT Boston, MA CHANNEL [V] Television WTTG Washington, DC CHANNEL [V] THAILAND 50% Europe WDCA Washington, DC ESPN STAR SPORTS 50% SKY Italia WAGA Atlanta, GA PHOENIX SATELLITE TELEVISION 18% Sky Sport ANTV 20% Sky Calcio Sky Cinema Sky TG 24 2 British Sky Broadcasting 39% Fiji News Corp Europe Sky News The Fiji Times News Outdoor Group Sky Sports Sunday Times NCE Television Group Sky Travel Papua New Guinea Multimedia Holdings 50% Sky One Post-Courier 63% milkround.com Sky Movies Propertyfinder.com 58% United States Magazines and Inserts Australia and New Zealand The DIRECTV Group 39% United States and Canada FOXTEL 25% Asia News America Marketing Sky Network Television Limited 44% TATA SKY 20% In-Store National Rugby League 50% FSI (SmartSource Magazine) News Digital Media Newspapers SmartSource iGroup Rugby Union United States News Marketing Canada realestate.com.au 58% New York Post The Weekly Standard Asia Community Newspaper Group Gemstar-TV Guide International 41% Hathway Cable and Datacom 22% United Kingdom China Network Systems The Times Book Publishing Various The Sunday Times United States, Canada, Europe, The Sun New Zealand and Australia (a) Fox Regional Sports Networks are all 100% News of the World HarperCollins Publishers owned, except for FSN South and SportSouth, thelondonpaper which are each 93% owned. love it! 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The Company WhatIfSports does not ordinarily make projections of its future The Courier-Mail kSolo operating results and undertakes no obligation Sunday Mail (Brisbane) Flektor to publicly update or revise any forward-looking The Advertiser statements, whether as a result of new information, Fox.com Sunday Mail (Adelaide) future events or otherwise, except as required by law. AmericanIdol.com The Mercury Jamba 51% mX Europe Sunday Tasmanian NDS 73% The Sunday Times Broadsystem Ventures Northern Territory News Convoys Group Sunday Territorian London Property News Insideout News Outdoor Group donna hay Vogue Australia GQ Australia Alpha 3 Chief Executive Officer’s Letter midst a string of successful years for News Corporation, 2007 stands out. Once again, we achieved double digit growth company-wide, and in nearly every segment. Established businesses and developing assets alike turned in strong performances, generating momentum across the ACompany. Operating income rose to yet another record – $4.45 billion, up 15 percent – on revenues of $28.7 billion, a 13 percent gain. Income from continuing operations grew by 22 percent to $3.4 billion, or $1.08 per share. This was our Company’s fourth consecutive year of record results: revenues up 13 percent a year on average; operating income growth averaging 17 percent; and average earnings per share up 37 percent. This is a performance that few – if any – of our competitors can match over the same period. Yet impressive as the numbers are, what set this year apart were the strategic moves we made to better position our Company for the future. We amicably reached an agreement with Liberty Media that, when completed, will result in the largest-ever single buyback of News Corp. shares; we announced a review of strategic options for several non-core assets; and after the fiscal year-end announced one of our most important strategic acquisitions of the past twenty years – the agreement to purchase Dow Jones & Company. When completed, these moves will give us the financial and operational flexibility to seize opportunities as they arise. Our Company follows a clear strategy. We provide a compelling combination of information and entertainment for the largest audience around the globe. Few media companies can claim to match our breadth of offerings, or our global reach. And when we add Dow Jones to our stable of other news and information businesses, our leadership will be even more pronounced. In providing this content, we maintain what we believe is the ideal mixture of established, developing, and new businesses with significant potential. This balance serves an important purpose: it guarantees that we always have at least one generation of assets that can be considered our growth assets. 4 Rupert Murdoch Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Our established properties – assets like our newspapers, film studios and broadcast television properties – maintain valuable brands and loyal audiences, while remaining the foundation upon which we develop and expand all our activities, as well as generating reliable cash flows to fund our new businesses. The businesses that I call our developing operations are already delivering profits but still have room for stronger growth as they continue to further penetrate new markets. Our third-generation assets – our newest businesses – are just starting their growth cycles and are poised to become the Company’s future growth drivers. This “virtuous cycle” has served us well. We have consistently broadened our offerings, from newspapers to feature film to free television to cable channels to books to pay- television to many Internet offerings. And we have expanded our reach, from Australia to the U.K., then to the U.S. to Continental Europe and to East and South Asia. One of last year’s best examples of this formula at work was our Cable Network Programming, a segment containing established, developing and new channels. Nearly every asset in this segment contributed more than its fair share to the bottom line. Among our established channels, the FOX News Channel showed strong growth during the year. The ongoing renegotiations of the Channel’s affiliate deals, coupled with strong advertising sales, drove record operating income and revenue growth. FX, another of our established channels, remained a leader in basic cable entertainment, producing double digit operating income and revenue growth. The regional sports networks, SPEED and National Geographic, also grew briskly during the year. One particular stand-out was our Fox International Channels, a relatively unheralded part of our cable group that nonetheless saw its profits grow strongly this year as it expanded its channel audience to a larger global audience. We will launch the FOX Business Network (FBN) this October. FBN has already signed deals with three of the nation’s largest cable operators, providing the channel on day one with more than 30 million subscribers – the largest launch of any cable channel in history. We are confident that FBN, under the leadership of Roger Ailes and his talented team, will be successful. Over the past two years, we have begun to transform