Media ownership in Australia is distributed between commercial, national public broadcasters and not-for-profit community broadcasters. Australian media ownership has been described as one of the most concentrated in the world. For example, 11 of the 12 capital city daily papers are owned by either Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

's News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

 or by John Fairfax Holdings.

Nine Entertainment Co.

Nine Entertainment Co. (previously PBL Media) is a media company owned by CVC Asia Pacific. Originally a 50/50 joint venture with Consolidated Media Holdings

Consolidated Media Holdings

Consolidated Media Holdings is an Australia investment company focused on subscription television.-About CMH:Consolidated Media Holdings is a publicly listed Australian company...

. Has diverse interests including the Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

, ACP Magazines, Ticketek

Ticketek

Ticketek is an Australian event ticketing company. Formed in 1979, the company is owned by Nine Entertainment Co. and operates ticketing operations for entertainment and sporting events in Australia, and New Zealand....

 and Acer Arena

Acer Arena

The Allphones Arena is a large entertainment and sporting complex located in Sydney, Australia. It is situated in Sydney Olympic Park, and was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Summer Olympics....

.

Assets

• Television
  • Nine Network
    Nine Network
    The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
    
    , 100%, an Australian free-to-air television network.
    • TCN
      TCN
      TCN stands for:* Take Care Now, a private company providing out-of-hours medical cover in England* TanenbaumCHAT North Campus, a private Hebrew high school in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada* TCN-9, a Sydney television station...
      
       Sydney
      Sydney
      Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
      
      , 100%, a metropolitan television station based in Sydney, Australia.
    • GTV Melbourne
      Melbourne
      Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
      
      , 100%, a metropolitan television station based in Melbourne, Australia.
    • QTQ Brisbane
      Brisbane
      Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
      
      , 100%, a metropolitan television station based in Brisbane, Australia.
    • NTD Darwin
      Darwin, Northern Territory
      Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
      
      , 100%, a metropolitan television station based in Darwin, Australia.
  • GO!
    Go! (Australian TV channel)
    GO! is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 9 August 2009.-Origins:...
    
    , 100%, Australia's highest-rating free-to-air digital multichannel.
  • GEM
    GEM (Australian TV channel)
    GEM is an Australian free-to-air high definition digital television channel, launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 26 September 2010 at 6am...
    
    , 100%, an Australian free-to-air digital multichannel.
  • NBN Television
    NBN Television
    NBN Television is a television station based in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The station was inaugurated on 4 March 1962 as the first regional commercial television station in New South Wales, and has since expanded to 39 transmitters throughout the northern half of New South Wales and...
    
    , 100%, a regional television station based in Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
    
    , Australia.
  • DTD
    DTD (TV station)
    Darwin Digital Television is a digital television station in Darwin, Northern Territory. It is jointly owned by Nine Entertainment and the Macquarie Media Group .-History:...
    
    , 50%, a digital television station based in Darwin, Australia, joint-venture with Southern Cross Media Group.

• Magazines
  • ACP Magazines, 100%, Australia's leading magazine publisher operating in Australia, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
    
    , Asia
    Asia
    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
    
     and the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
    
    .

• Digital
  • Ninemsn
    NineMSN
    ninemsn is an Australian 50/50 joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co.. It effectively acts as the website for both the Nine Network and MSN, and is one of Australia's most popular websites...
    
    , 50%, an online entertainment portal, joint-venture with Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
    
    .
  • Carsales Network, 50.6%, Australia's leading online automotive, motorcycle and marine classifieds business.
  • My Home, 48.75%, an online real estate business, joint-ventue with Shane Dale and My Home Group.
  • Australian News Channel, 33.33%, a subscription television news service, joint-venture with British Sky Broadcasting
    British Sky Broadcasting
    British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....
    
     and Seven Media Group.

• Events
  • Ticketek
    Ticketek
    Ticketek is an Australian event ticketing company. Formed in 1979, the company is owned by Nine Entertainment Co. and operates ticketing operations for entertainment and sporting events in Australia, and New Zealand....
    
    , 100%, an event ticketing business operating in Australia, New Zealand and Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
    
    .
  • Acer Arena
    Acer Arena
    The Allphones Arena is a large entertainment and sporting complex located in Sydney, Australia. It is situated in Sydney Olympic Park, and was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Summer Olympics....
    
    , 100%, an entertainment and sporting complex located in Sydney, Australia.

WIN Corporation

The WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation

The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...

 is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television

WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...

 network, NWS, and STW

STW

-Mathematics:*The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, a generalization of Fermat's last theorem.-Music:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*Salt the Wound, a deathcore band-Other:...

 in Australia.

Assets

Television

• WIN Television
  WIN Television
  WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
  
  
  • RTQ
    RTQ
    RTQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Queensland in Australia. The network was owned by Star Television, before being purchased by the WIN Corporation on 5 October 1988.-Network history:...
    
     Queensland
  • WIN
    WIN Television
    WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
    
     Southern New South Wales
  • VTV
    VTV (TV station)
    VTV is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Victoria in Australia. The network was owned by ENT Ltd., before being purchased by the WIN Corporation.-Network history:...
    
     Victoria
  • TVT Tasmania
  • MTN Griffith - Includes WIN Griffith, Prime Griffith, and TEN Griffith.
  • WOW
    WOW (TV station)
    WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia. The station officially commenced transmissions on 26 March 1999 as the second commercial regional broadcaster in Western Australia, alongside former monopoly, Golden West Network...
    
     Western Australia
  • SES/RTS
    SES/RTS
    SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, are Australian television stations licensed to, and serving Mount Gambier and Riverland in South Australia. The station commenced transmissions on 25 March 1966.-History:...
    
     South Australia
• NWS9 Adelaide
• STW
  STW
  -Mathematics:*The Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture, a generalization of Fermat's last theorem.-Music:*Stop the War Coalition, an anti-war group in the United Kingdom*Salt the Wound, a deathcore band-Other:...
  
  9 Perth
• Mildura Digital Television
  Mildura Digital Television
  Ten Mildura is a joint venture television station between Prime Media Group and Win Television. Based in Mildura, Victoria, Australia, it is a digital-only Network Ten affiliate, and began broadcasting on 1 January 2006....
  
   (50% stake)
• Tasmanian Digital Television
  Tasmanian Digital Television
  Tasmanian Digital Television is a digital television station in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Macquarie Media Group, and largely managed by WIN Television.-Introduction:...
  
   (50% stake)
• Ten West
  Ten West
  Ten West is the official name for a digital television station broadcasting in rural Western Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Prime Television Limited and is an affiliate of Network Ten, broadcasting a direct feed of NEW-10 from Perth....
  
   (50% share with Prime Television
  Prime Television
  PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...
  
  )
• Ten Network Holdings
  Ten Network Holdings
  Ten Network Holdings Limited, is one of Australia's major media companies. It is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.-Assets:While originally focusing on running a television network, Ten has recently diversified into a range of other media areas over the past decade...
  
   (13% stake)

Other

• SelecTV
• i98FM
  I98FM
  "i98fm" is a commercial radio station broadcasting on the FM band to the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It is owned by WIN Corporation, the parent company of WIN Television.-History:...
  
  
• C91.3FM
  C91.3
  C91.3 is a commercial radio station broadcasting on the FM band at a frequency of 91.3 MHz to the Macarthur region of New South Wales in Australia. This area takes in the major centres of Campbelltown and Camden. The station is owned by WIN Corporation, the parent company of WIN Television...
  
  
• Crawford Productions
  Crawford Productions
  Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford; the present incarnation of the company, Crawfords Australia, is now a subsidiary of the WIN television corporation.-History:...
  
  
• Digital Distribution Australia
• SP Telemedia (13% stake)
• St. George Illawarra Dragons (24% stake)
• Australian Poker League (50% stake)
• Joint venture with Village Tasmania

News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

 has interests in the film, magazine, publishing, sports & television industries. These include the following:

• 20th Century Fox
  20th Century Fox
  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
  
  
• Sky News
  Sky News
  Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
  
  
• Foxtel
  Foxtel
  Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....
  
  
• Fox Sports
  Fox Sports (Australia)
  Fox Sports is an Australia group of sports channels. They are owned by the Premier Media Group, which is in turn owned by News Corporation, and Consolidated Media Holdings. Its main competitors are ESPN, which has little local content and the free-to-air digital channel One HD...
  
  
• National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel
  National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
  
  
• The Weekly Standard
  The Weekly Standard
  The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
  
  
• The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
  The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
  The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation.The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to...
  
  
• The Courier Mail
• The Australian
  The Australian
  The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
  
  
• Harper Collins Publishers
• National Rugby League

This can impact on the way information is presented in that News Corporation can also feature/advertise their other products & services. For example, News Corporation newspapers can ‘promote’ the NRL in the sports section. However, News Corp has no presence in free-to-air television in Australia.

Southern Cross Broadcasting

Southern Cross Broadcasting

Southern Cross Broadcasting

Southern Cross Broadcasting Limited was a diversified Australian media company, that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television.-History:...

 owns a number of regional television stations and some metropolitan radio stations across Australia.

Assets

• Southern Cross Media
• Taiwan Broadband Communications (60%) (sold off in FY 2007/08)
• American Consolidated Media
• Southern Cross Ten
  Southern Cross Ten
  Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
  
  
  • CTC
    CTC (TV station)
    CTC is a television station in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. The station was the tenth to begin transmission in regional Australia, and the 26th station in Australia as a whole.-Origins:...
    
     - Australian Capital Territory/Southern NSW (Canberra
    Canberra
    Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
    
    , Wollongong, Wagga Wagga, South Coast
    South Coast, New South Wales
    The South Coast refers to the narrow coastal belt from Sydney in the north to the border with Victoria in the south in the south-eastern part of the State of New South Wales, Australia. It is bordered to the west by the coastal escarpment of the Southern Tablelands, which is largely covered by a...
    
    )
  • GLV/BCV - Victoria (Bendigo, Ballarat, Gippsland
    Gippsland
    Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...
    
    , Albury-Wodonga
    Albury-Wodonga
    Albury-Wodonga is the broad settlement incorporating the twin Australian cities of Albury and Wodonga, which are separated geographically by the Murray River and politically by a state border: Albury on the north of the river is part of New South Wales while Wodonga on the south bank is in...
    
    )
  • NRN
    NRN
    NRN is a television station originating in Coffs Harbour, Australia as part of the Southern Cross Ten network. The station was formally a partnership between NRN-11 Coffs Harbour and RTN-8 Lismore .-Origins:...
    
     - Northern NSW/South East QLD (Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
    
    , Central Coast
    Central Coast, New South Wales
    The Central Coast is an urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales, located on the coast north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie....
    
    , North Coast
    North Coast, New South Wales
    Northern Rivers is a region of the Australian state of New South Wales, located between 590 and 820 kilometres north of the state capital, Sydney...
    
    , Gold Coast
    Gold Coast, Queensland
    Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
    
    )
  • TNQ
    TNQ
    TNQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland. The station is owned and operated by Southern Cross Ten.-History:...
    
     - Queensland (Toowoomba, Mackay
    Mackay, Queensland
    Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
    
    , Rockhampton
    Rockhampton
    Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia...
    
    , Townsville, Cairns)
  • SGS/SCN - South Australia (Spencer Gulf
    Spencer Gulf
    The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322 km long and 129 km wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the Eyre Peninsula, while the eastern side is the...
    
     region of South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
    
     and Broken Hill, New South Wales
    Broken Hill, New South Wales
    -Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...
    
    )
• Southern Cross Television
  Southern Cross Television
  Southern Cross Television, or Southern Cross, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, and Central Australia. Although the programming varies from region to region, all areas are affiliated with the Seven Network and, in some areas, have a dual...
  
  
  • TNT - Tasmania (Hobart
    Hobart
    Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
    
     and Launceston
    Launceston, Tasmania
    Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...
    
    )
  • TND
    TND
    TND can mean multiple things:* Tomorrow Never Dies, James Bond 007 movie* Tunisian dinar, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Tunisia* Traditional Neighborhood Development , a form of development associated with New Urbanism...
    
     - Northern Territory (Darwin
    Darwin, Northern Territory
    Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
    
    )
  • GTS/BKN - South Australia (Spencer Gulf
    Spencer Gulf
    The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322 km long and 129 km wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the Eyre Peninsula, while the eastern side is the...
    
     region of South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
    
     and Broken Hill, New South Wales
    Broken Hill, New South Wales
    -Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...
    
    )
  • QQQ
    QQQ
    QQQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in remote eastern, southern and central areas of Australia.QQQ may also refer to:* QQQ , a fictional character in the F-Zero video game series...
    
     - Central Australia (Remote Eastern and Central Australia)
• Tasmanian Digital Television
  Tasmanian Digital Television
  Tasmanian Digital Television is a digital television station in Tasmania, Australia. It is jointly owned by the WIN Corporation and Macquarie Media Group, and largely managed by WIN Television.-Introduction:...
  
   (50% share with WIN Corporation
  WIN Corporation
  The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...
  
  )
• Darwin Digital Television (50% share with Nine Entertainment Co.)

Ten Network Holdings

Assets

• Television
• Network Ten
  Network Ten
  Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
  
  
  • TEN Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
    
    
  • ATV Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
    
    
  • TVQ
    TVQ
    TVQ is the Brisbane television station of Network Ten in Australia.TVQ may also refer to:* TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting, a television station in Fukuoka, Japan...
    
     Brisbane
    Brisbane
    Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
    
    
  • ADS Adelaide
    Adelaide
    Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
    
    
  • NEW Perth
    Perth, Western Australia
    Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
    
    
• ONE
• ELEVEN
  Eleven (TV channel)
  Eleven is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel, which was launched by ElevenCo, on 11 January 2011.-Joint venture:...
  
  
• Eye Corp Pty Limited
• Outdoor Plus Pty Limited
• Media Choice LLC
• Ultimate Media Group Pty Limited

Seven Media Group

• Television
  • Seven Network
    Seven Network
    The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
    
     - free to air network, output deals with NBC Universal
    NBC Universal
    NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
    
    , ITV
    ITV
    ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
    
    
  • Sky News Australia
    Sky News Australia
    Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms....
    
     (33% stake) - subscription television news channel; as part of Australian News Channel Pty Ltd ( BSkyB
    British Sky Broadcasting
    British Sky Broadcasting Group plc is a satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and the Ireland....
    
     33%, Seven Media Group 33%, PBL Media
    PBL Media
    Nine Entertainment Co. is a media company owned by CVC Asia Pacific.Originally a 50/50 joint venture with Consolidated Media Holdings, in June 2007 PBL announced that it would sell a further 25% to CVC for A$ 515 million...
    
     33% )
  • Hybrid Television Services
    Hybrid Television Services
    Hybrid Television Services Pty Limited is the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand. Hybrid TV is owned by New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ and Australian Seven Media Group ....
    
     (67% stake) - time shifting
    Time shifting
    Time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to at a time more convenient to the consumer. Typically, this refers to TV programming but can also refer to radio shows via podcasts....
    
     technology, exclusive licensee of TiVo
    TiVo
    TiVo is a digital video recorder developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList"...
    
     in Australia and NZ from 2008.

• Print (newspapers and/or magazines)
  • Pacific Magazines
    Pacific Magazines
    Pacific Magazines is a magazine publisher operating in Australia and New Zealand, owned by Seven Media Group. It has it roots in the Southdown Press, the publishers of New Idea and long owned by the Murdoch family...
    
     - 3 of the top 5 highest reaching magazines in Australia. Market share within categories:
    • Homes – 61.5% to 63.1%
    • Teens – 45.9% to 50.4%
    • Women’s Lifestyle – 13.5% to 27%
    • Health – 22.2% to 28.3%
    • Parenting – 49.2% to 61.8%
    • Men’s Lifestyle – 41.8% to 44%
    • Airline – 34.4% to 35%

• Internet
  • Yahoo!7
    Yahoo!7
    Yahoo!7 is a 50-50 partnership between the Seven Network and Yahoo! Inc. in Australia.As part of the Yahoo! Inc. and the Seven Media Group, Yahoo!7 brings together the online assets of Yahoo! Inc. and the television and magazine content of the Seven Network and Pacific Magazines...
    
     (50% stake) - joint venture with Yahoo!
    Yahoo!
    Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
    
    , Australian gateway to Yahoo! products.

Fairfax Media

• Print
  • National: The Australian Financial Review
    The Australian Financial Review
    The Australian Financial Review is a leading business and finance newspaper in Australia.Fairfax Media publishes it in a compact format six days a week, Monday to Saturday....
    
    - leading business newspaper
  • Sydney, NSW: The Sydney Morning Herald
    The Sydney Morning Herald
    The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
    
    
  • Melbourne, VIC: The Age
    The Age
    The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
    
    
  • Canberra, ACT: The Canberra Times
    The Canberra Times
    The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by Arthur Shakespeare.It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being The Federal Capital Pioneer. The paper was sold to the Fairfax group in the 1960s by Arthur Shakespeare on the condition that it continue...
    
    - from Rural Press
    Rural Press
    Rural Press Limited was an Australian media company which owned approximately 170 newspaper and magazine titles, The Canberra Times being the most prominent. These were predominantly in rural Australia, though it also owned a number of agricultural publications in the United States and New Zealand...
    
     merger
  • Wollongong, NSW: Illawarra Mercury
    Illawarra Mercury
    The Illawarra Mercury is the only daily newspaper in Wollongong, the third largest city in the State of New South Wales, Australia. It has been published since 1855, making it one of Australia's oldest newspapers...
    
    
  • Newcastle, NSW: The Newcastle Herald
    The Newcastle Herald
    The Newcastle Herald is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, the largest non-capital city in Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the entire Hunter and Central Coast regions six days a week...
    
    
  • Suburban community newspapers: Fairfax Community Newspapers

• Internet
  • Domain.com.au - real estate classifieds
  • Drive.com.au - automotive classifieds
  • MyCareer.com.au - employment classifieds
  • RSVP.com.au - personal dating classifieds
  • Weatherzone.com.au - weather service
  • Brisbanetimes.com.au - online news service

ABC

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 is a state-owned company that provides television, radio and internet news services. It was founded in 1929. The ABC is 100% funded by the Australian Government.

SBS

The Special Broadcasting Service

Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...

 was founded in 1980, and is now a hybrid-funded provider of television, radio and online media with an emphasis on multi-lingual services. The Australian Government contributes approximately 80% of funding to SBS, the rest is generated from advertising revenue.

Laws

The Australian Government legislated specific controls over the ownership of broadcasting on television and radio in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992. These effectively prohibit ownership of more than one television station or two radio stations in a given market. The Commonwealth's legislative reach over print media ownership is largely limited to general competition law such as the Trade Practices Act 1974

Trade Practices Act 1974

The Competition and Consumer Act 2010 is an act of the Parliament of Australia. On 1 January 2011 the Trade Practices Act 1974 was renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010. The act provides for protection of consumers and prevents some restrictive trade practices of companies. It is the key...

.

On 14 March 2005, the Australian Government announced proposals to amend the current media ownership laws.

Television

Australian television broadcasting is dominated by free-to-air

Free-to-air

Free-to-air describes television and radio services broadcast in clear form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or one-off fee...

 services including ABC TV

ABC Television

ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....

, Seven Network

Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

, Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

, Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

, SBS TV

SBS TV

SBS One is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 24 October 1980, it is the responsibility of SBS's television division, and is available nationally...

 and their affiliates, as well as subscription television providers Foxtel

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

, Austar

Austar

Austar is an Australian telecommunications company. Its main business activity is Subscription Television but it is also involved with internet access and mobile phones...

 and SelecTV.

Ownership of these stations and affiliates is mostly shared between PBL Media

PBL Media

Nine Entertainment Co. is a media company owned by CVC Asia Pacific.Originally a 50/50 joint venture with Consolidated Media Holdings, in June 2007 PBL announced that it would sell a further 25% to CVC for A$ 515 million...

, Seven Media Group, WIN Corporation

WIN Corporation

The WIN Corporation is a Wollongong based media company, that owns the WIN Television network, NWS, and STW in Australia.It began broadcasting in Wollongong with one station in 1963. Bruce Gordon acquired control of the company in 1979 and initiated a period of growth which has seen the Network...

, Macquarie Media Group

Macquarie Media Group

Southern Cross Media Group is one of Australia's major media companies. On 3 July 2007 Southern Cross Broadcasting recommended Macquarie Media Group's offer of A$1.35 billion, for a takeover of the corporation. Under the deal, Macquarie Media Group will then on sell the metropolitan radio...

 and Prime Television Limited

Prime Television Limited

Prime Media Group Limited is an Australian-based media corporation, owner of regional television network Prime7 in eastern Australia, the GWN7 in regional Western Australia, and a number of radio stations in Queensland....

. ABC Television

ABC Television

ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....

 and SBS Television are government owned stations.

There are also some smaller subscription television providers, such as Neighbourhood Cable

Neighbourhood Cable

Neighbourhood Cable is a telecommunications provider based in regional Victoria, Australia . Neighbourhood Cable owns and operates Hybrid Fibre Coaxial cable networks in three Victorian regional cities:* Mildura* Ballarat* Geelong...

 and TransACT

TransACT

TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and mobile phone services in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan, throughout South-east New South...

, but they are limited both in channel availability and subscribers. Community television stations are broadcast in most capital cities.

None of the commercial networks are owned by News Corporation.

External links

• http://www.australianpolitics.com/issues/media-ownership/
• Media Policy Online
• Media Ownership Regulation in Australia