He also owns Sky Sattelite TV in the UK, the Star Asian Sattelite Network, A popular German newspaper and a French network.
His power in the UK will ebb away as Freeview Digital TV becomes more and more mainstream (You just pay for the box and not for the channels, there are already about 30 channels for free many of which are very good).
But yes this guy is mega powerful. I read a biography on him and one on Maxwell at the same time. Murdoch is a great businessman and Maxwell was a great hoodwinker.
Interestingly he was a Socialist at Univeristy but soon changed his mind. He apparently has a big dislike for the old British order of things (monarchy and knighthoods etc) and would like to see it ended or so the bio led me to believe. If that is the case then he can go jump.
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I would like to see him make a Fox News Canada with Canadian news. I enjoyed getting international news from Fox News.