The following information was found via a webpage on the BBC website. I have
taken events I deem important and placed them here. For more information
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BBC.
1922: News Limited is started.
1923: News Limited begins publishing a daily newspaper in Adelaide, Australia.
1931 Rupert Keith
Murdoch is born in Victoria, Melbourne, Australia on March 11, 1931.
1953 Rupert's father dies. Rupert inherits two of his father's relatively
small Australian newspapers,
The Adelaide News and the
Sunday Mail
1964 Rupert Murdoch creates the
Australian.
1968 Rupert Murdoch buys Britain's newspaper
The News of the World.
Not long afterwards, he also purchases
The Sun. Murdoch turns both publications
into sensationalist publications.
The Sun becomes notorious
for "Page Three," which often features topless pictures of women.
1970's Rupert Murdoch begins purchasing magazines and newspaper
publications in America. Rupert starts up
The Star, a tabloid
magazine.
1973 Murdoch purchases
The San Antonio Express
1976 Rupert Murdoch purchases the
New York Post
1979 News Corporation is formed.
1981 Rupert Murdoch buys the
Sunday Times
1982 Rupert Murdoch is voted "communications man of the year" by the American
Jewish Congress
in New York.
1985 Rupert Murdoch purchases Metromedia's independent television
stations from John Kluge.
1985 Murdoch also buys 50% of 20th Century Fox, which leads
to the establishment of the
Fox Network,
the first new television network since the 1950's. Murdoch becomes an
American citizen.
1987 Takes over
The Boston Herald and
Weekly Times
1988 News Corporation acquires Triangle Publications, which includes
TV Guide. News Corporation
now had control over a television network and a publication which critiques
itself.
1988 After pressure from Senator Edward Kennedy, Murdoch sells the
New York Post. Kennedy opposed Murdoch owning television stations
and newspapers in both Boston and New York. Murdoch would re-purchase the
Post in 1993.
1988 News Corporation starts Sky, a satellite television network.
The next year, News Corporation buys British Satellite Broadcasting,
a major competitor of Sky, to form
British Sky Broadcasting.
1993 News Corporation purchases Asia's Star TV DBS service
1996 News Corporation starts
Fox
News, a cable news network.
1997 Fox co-releases
Titanic,
highest grossing film in history ($1.8 billion)
