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Sinclair Broadcast Group buys Fox Sports Networks (FSN) from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. Disney was ordered by the U.S. Justice Department to sell FSN as part of its purchase of 21st Century Fox last year due antitrust concerns over its ownership of ESPN Inc.
2019-05-3

Rupert Murdoch confirms stepping down as the CEO of 21st Century Fox to be succeeded by his son James on July 1, 2015. Rupert will continue as its executive chairman with his eldest son, Lachlan, as a future executive co-chairman.
2015-06-16

Rupert Murdoch will step aside as CEO of 21st Century Fox to be replaced by his son James Murdoch.
2015-06-11

News Corp.ration lobbyist Fred Michel tells the Leveson Inquiry there was nothing inappropriate in his relationship with Adam Smith, a special adviser to UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt. Smith later tells the hearing Hunt sent a memorandum to Prime Minister David Cameron in which he said he was in favour of News Corp.s bid to take control of BSkyB before he was given a key role in the process.
2012-05-24

Tony Blair's former Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, tells the Leveson Inquiry that there was no "express deal" between Blair and News Corp.ration CEO Rupert Murdoch in the run-up to the 1997 UK general election.
2012-05-14

British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband calls for Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt to resign after evidence at the hearing appears to show his support for News Corp.ration's bid to take control of BSkyB.
2012-04-24

MSNBC reports that the United States Department of Justice is investigating claims that News Corp.ration's advertising arm repeatedly hacked into the computers of competitors.
2011-07-21

David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, makes a statement to the House of Commons in relation to the judicial inquiry into the "News of the World" phone hacking affair, hours before the announcement that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.ration had withdrawn its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB.
2011-07-13

News Corp.ration, the third largest media company in the world, gets approval to buy out British Sky Broadcasting, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom, for $12.7 billion.
2011-03-3

Giant media conglomerate News Corp. says it will launch a digital newspaper as content of Apple's iPad, on 2 February. This is a later launch date than many had expected.
2011-01-27