INTRODUCTION

News Corporation

 Founded in 1980
 Biggest monopoly in America with media mogul Rupert Murdoch as the CEO
 Monopolized the media industry specializing in newspapers, film, television networks, satellite
TV and much more
 The News Corporation split into two different media corporations in 2013, one company is
called ‘News Corp’ and the other one is called ‘21st Century Fox’
 News Corp is oriented towards publishing media and 21th Century Fox is oriented towards
moving image media, more specifically film production and film distribution.
INTRODUCTION

Key Media Assets of 21st Century Fox, Inc.,

 Cable networking programme

 Filmed Entertainment

 Television

 Internet Apps and Services

Cable Networking Programme / Television
Filmed Entertainment/ Apps
Timeline of Fox 21st Century Inc

Twentieth Century
1933 Fox Film Cooperation
Pictures

1935 20th Century Fox

1985 News Corporation

2013 News Corp 21st Century Fox

2019 Walt Disney

Walt Disney- 21st Century Acquisition

21st Century Fox

 On July 27, 2018, 21st Century Fox shareholders agreed to sell the majority of its assets to
Disney for $71.3 billion
 Acquired by Disney on March 20, 2019
Walt Disney- 21st Century Acquisition
Walt Disney- 21st Century Acquisition
Financial Analysis - 21st Century Fox

• Multinational Media Conglomerate

• Stockholders of 4.48 billion USD
• Total Revenue – 30.40 billion USD
• Ranked 109 by Fortune 500 in terms of revenue.
• Gets Funding from Franchises, cinemas, the public and
advertisement
• Three major Revenue generator business:
A) Cable networking Programming – 15.01 billion USD
B) Television – 6.64 billion USD
C) Filmed Entertainment – 8.75 billion USD
Revenue Growth
Success Stories

• 6 Academy Awards – “Shape of Water”

• 7 Golden Globe Awards – “Deadpool2”
• Bagged the profit of 730 million USD worldwide
Market Shares

• Represents 26% of US market

• 14.2% international
• Merger with Disney can create
monopoly.