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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 O'Malley family.

Born to Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch (1886-1952) and his wife Elizabeth 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 company's television stations) had seemed to be the heir apparent.

Although a capitalist and supposedly conservative, Rupert Murdoch supported Senator Hilary 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 Artists's signature series, the James Bond films, featured a character based on Murdoch in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

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" (1989), 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 Murdoch's 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 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the media both in Australia and internationally.

Personal Quotes

"Our underlying philosophy is that all media are one."

Where Are They Now

(July 2007) Yass, New South Wales, Australia

(June 2009) New York City, New York

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