News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) ( , , , ) is the world's largest media conglomerate company by market capitalization . The company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin.
News Corporation is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. Formerly incorporated in South Australia, the company was re-incorporated in the United States state of Delaware after a majority of shareholders approved the move on November 12 2004.
News Corporation's headquarters is at 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.), in New York City, in the newer 1960s-1970s corridor of the Rockefeller Center complex.
Revenue for the year ended June 30 2007 was US$28.655 billion with an operating income of US$4.452 billion. This does not include News Corporation's minority share of the revenue from DirecTV and British Sky Broadcasting. Almost 70% of the company's sales come from its US businesses.
