NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED

UK registered

Companies House number 00081701·8 UK shareholdings·2 ownership layers

NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED is a UK-registered corporate shareholder (Companies House number 00081701) and holds shares in 8 active UK companies, recorded across 9 share-class positions on their Companies House confirmation statements (CS01). Beneath those direct holdings OpenRegistry resolves a further 6 companies spanning 2 ownership layers, of which 1 direct holdings are themselves holding companies; the persons-with-significant-control register independently agrees on 5 of these holdings. It ranks #2,330 of 54,210 corporate shareholders by number of active UK holdings. Programmatic access via MCP at https://openregistry.sophymarine.com/mcp.

Companies held
8

Share-class positions
9

Identity
UK company 00081701

Jurisdiction
UNITED KINGDOM

Ownership layers below
2

Holdings that are holding companies
1

PSC register agrees on
5 holdings

Company profile

Companies House profile of NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED

Shareholders

Shares held by NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED in 8 UK companies

Ownership chain

6 companies across 2 layers beneath NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED

Official record

Companies House record 00081701

Shareholdings

Every company NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED appears on as a member, as filed. 8 of 8 are linked to their Companies House profile.

Company held	Status	Accounts	Share class	Shares	% of class	% of capital	Total % of capital	As of
TIMES CROSSWORDS LIMITED03737251	Active	DORMANT	£1 ORDINARY	2	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	2024-07-19
NEWSPRINTERS HOLDINGS LIMITED15065208	Active	FULL	B ORDINARY	1,965,426	100.00%	50.00%	50.00%	2025-08-10
OZONE PROJECT LIMITED11471303	Active	FULL	A ORDINARY	23,641	100.00%	21.05%	39.65%	2023-07-24
OZONE PROJECT LIMITED11471303	Active	FULL	PREFERENCE	20,888	83.54%	18.60%	39.65%	2023-07-24
CORQ STUDIO LIMITED10325607	Active	TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL	ORDINARY	265,500	13.66%	13.66%	13.66%	2025-01-08
PA MEDIA GROUP LIMITED00004197	Active	GROUP	ORDINARY	1,342,500				2024-01-19
HAZELNUT LONDON LTD10369814	Active	TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL	A PREFERRED	3,479,968				2021-09-10
OCTAVE IP LIMITED12395152	Active	FULL	ORDINARY	2				2026-01-05
WIRELESS GROUP LIMITED ▼NI065086	Active	FULL	ORDINARY	69,925,114				2023-07-24

Ownership structure below these holdings

6 further companies sit beneath this entity’s direct holdings, across 2 layers. Each is linked to its Companies House profile.

WIRELESS GROUP LIMITEDNI065086
- THE INTERNET BUSINESS LIMITEDNI031235 ORDINARY · 100.00%
- INDEPENDENT RADIO NEWS LIMITED01112963 ORDINARY £0.50
- SWITCHDIGITAL (LONDON) LIMITED03729042 ORDINARY A / ORDINARY B
- THE DIGITAL RADIO GROUP (LONDON) LIMITED03903499 ORDINARY
- SOUND DIGITAL LIMITED09245317 ORDINARY
- SWITCHDIGITAL (SCOTLAND) LIMITEDSC200916 ORDINARY

Related company owners

Corporate shareholders that hold shares in the same UK companies as NEWS CORP UK & IRELAND LIMITED:

REACH SHARED SERVICES LIMITED03890737 4 shared holdings
TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP LIMITED00451593 3 shared holdings
GUARDIAN NEWS & MEDIA LIMITED00908396 2 shared holdings
DAILY MAIL AND GENERAL HOLDINGS LIMITED01693108 2 shared holdings
GUARDIAN MEDIA GROUP PLC00094531 1 shared holding
BAUER RADIO LIMITED01394141 1 shared holding

Other corporate shareholders of comparable size registered in UNITED KINGDOM:

GREENE KING LIMITED00024511 8 UK holdings
GKN INDUSTRIES LIMITED00032262 8 UK holdings
REFINITIV LIMITED00145516 8 UK holdings
DEWHURST GROUP LIMITED00160314 8 UK holdings

Every company on this page is identified by its original Companies House registration number, shown beside its name and repeated in the data-company-number attribute of the same element. A shareholder that does not resolve to a registered company carries no number.

▼ marks a holding that itself holds shares in further companies, so ownership continues below it.

“% of capital” is the entity’s share of issued capital by nominal value, the correct basis when a company has multiple share classes.

Figures are as filed on each company’s most recent confirmation statement; the “As of” column gives that statement date. Source: Companies House Free Company Data and CS01 confirmation statements. Official record: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.