NEW YORK, NY, October 17, 2005 –
News Corporation today announced that a live audio webcast of its 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be available beginning 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on October 21, 2005 on the Internet at http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=NWS&script=1010&item_id=1146084. An archived replay of the audio webcast will be available through November 21, 2005.
News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total assets as of June 30, 2005 of approximately US$55 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$24 billion. News Corporation is a diversified international media and entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin.
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