Rupert Murdoch

Is the CEO and majority stock-owner of Newscorp., a public company which owns several major media enterprises, among which are the FOX broadcast network, the Fox News Channel , 20th Century Fox Film Corp., The New York Post, Reganbooks and HarperCollins Publishers, the BSkyb satellite company, The London Times, and many others around the world.

Daughters with Wendi: Grace Helen (born on 19 November 2001) and Chloe (born July 17, 2003).

Owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise from 1998-2004, which he purchased from the OMalley family.

Born to Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch (1886-1952) and his wife Elisabeth Greene (born in 1909), he has three older sisters.

In November 2003, he made his younger son James (then 30 years of age) the chief executive of BSkyB, of which he himself is chairman and the biggest shareholder (34.3%). Until then, his older son Lachlan Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer at News Corp. and head of the New York Post and the companys television stations) had seemed to be the heir apparent.

Although a capitalist and supposedly conservative, Rupert Murdoch supported Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), as was mentioned on FOX News. The Aussie-American media baron who created the Fox News Channel in 1996 as a conservative counterpoint to what he considered the liberal Cable News Network (CNN), founded by outspoken liberal media baron, Ted Turner , in 1980.

When he went on a buying spree of Australian newspapers, he was given the derisive nickname "Koala Kong" by his critics.

Father with Anna Maria Torv of Elisabeth Murdoch , Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch. Father-in-law of Sarah Murdoch.

His two young daughters from Wendi Deng have "playtime sessions" with Hugh Jackman s two adopted children in New York.

Twentieth Century Fox, which his company owns, itself owns a partial share of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists. United Artistss signature series, the James Bond films, featured a character based on Murdoch in Tomorrow Never Dies .

Studied politics, economics and philosophy at Worchester College, Oxford University.

Has one daughter, Prudence (born in 1958), from his first marriage.

Played himself in an episode of "The Simpsons" , introducing himself as "Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant", and was lampooned in several other episodes of the show.

He was awarded the A.C. (Companion of the Order of Australia) on January 26, 1984 for his services to journalism and media in Australia.

On the prospect of Murdoch acquiring the Chicago Sun-Times, where daily columnist Mike Royko shifted from the Chicago Daily News following its demise, Royko famously said "no self-respecting fish" would allow itself to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper. With Murdochs acquisition of The Sun-Times, Royko shifted employers again and wrote his column for the Chicago Tribune.

He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to the media both in Australia and internationally.

He personally asked Fox Searchlight to release Snow Flower and the Secret Fan in North America.

On the "The Big Bang Theory" episode, "The Big Bang Theory" {The Large Hadron Collision (#3.15)} , Sheldon calls Murdoch a traitor because, "He owns FOX and they canceled "Firefly" .

Ex-uncle-in-law of Anna Torv.

His mother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch , passed away at age 103 [December 5, 2012].

(June 2009) New York City, New York

(July 2007) Yass, New South Wales, Australia

Initiated Sky News and Fox News.

Having announced his January 2016 engagement to Jerry Hall four months he and Jerry confirmed the rumors of their relationship, he married his fiance at the Spencer House on March 4, 2016.

Endorsed Donald Trump for the 2016 Presidential election.

Our underlying philosophy is that all media are one.

I believe in competition. The way to control the market is to have,competition. If someone goes bust, too bad.

Much of what passes for quality on British television really is no more,than a reflection of the values of the narrow elite which controls it,and which has always thought that its tastes are synonymous with,quality.

The socially mobile are portrayed as uncaring; businessmen as crooks;,money-making is to be despised. As a result, in the values it exudes,British television has been an integral part of the British disease,hostile to the sort of culture needed to cure that disease. The fact,that those who control British TV have always worked in a non-market,environment, protected by public subsidy and state privilege, is a,major reason why they are innately unsympathetic to markets and,competition.

As British television is transformed by this new, multi-channel,diversity, I believe the consequent new freedoms will bring forth a,television system of choice and quality, the like of which has never,been seen. (Speaking in 1989, the year he launched Sky Television in,the UK),[on the BBC] A massive taxpayer-funded mouthpiece for tiny circulation,leftist Guardian.

There is a huge lack of balance in UK media with 8,000 BBC left-wing,journalists far outnumbering all national print journalists.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.