Seven Network Limited
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| Seven Network Limited | |
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| Type of Company | Public (ASX: SEV) |
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| Founded | 1956 |
| Headquarters |  Sydney, Australia |
| Key people | Kerry Stokes, Chairman David Leckie, CEO |
| Industry | Media |
| Products | Television |
| Website | sevencorporate.com.au |
Seven Network Limited, or Seven, is one of Australia's major media companies. It is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. In December 2006, company shareholders will vote whether to accept whether the company will be aquired by Seven Media Group.
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[edit] Assets
While originally focusing on running a television network, Seven has recently diversified into a range of other media areas over the past decade. Below are some of the businesses it has run, or is involved with:
[edit] Current
- It owns a 50% share of the Seven Media Group.
- It owns a third of Sky News Australia, a subscription TV channel. The other equal partners are PBL (Nine) and BSkyB (Sky Television UK).
- It owns a magazine publishing business, Pacific Magazines, which publishes the following magazines in Australia and New Zealand:
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Diabetic Living
- Famous
- family circle
- Girlfriend
- Home Beautiful
- K-Zone
- marie claire
- Men's Health
- Monument
- New Idea
- That's Life!
- Total Girl
- TV Hits
- Your Garden
- Harvey Norman
- Lube Mobile
- Brand Power
- It operates the Austext teletext service.
- It owns C7 Sports, which had a number of subscription sport channels and is continuing its efforts to find carriage again. The service was originally available on Optus Vision and Austar plus Foxtel during the Olympic Games in Sydney
- Seven owns a 33% share in mobile solutions enabler m.Net Corporation, making it a major shareholder along with Telstra and Alcatel.
- Seven owns a 50% share in Yahoo! 7, with Yahoo! Australia owning the other 50%.
- Seven owns a 15% stake in West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited.
[edit] Past
- It owned a large stake in the Telstra Dome (previously Colonial Stadium) stadium in Melbourne.
- It was a former stakeholder in the Optus Vision consortium.
- It owned a part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Once during the Christopher Skase ownership through Qintex in 1989 and again with Kerry Stokes in 1997.
- It was a former partner in the AOL7 Internet joint venture with America Online and Telecom New Zealand subsidiary AAPT. This venture is now owned by Primus Telecom and has been renamed "Primus-AOL", but Seven continues to supply it with content.
- It owned Ticketmaster7, a ticketing company.
- It owned a majority stake in B Mobile, a mobile phone retailer but has now sold out.
- It owned the (now defunct) i7 portal.
- It was a partner in Sports Vision, a company that ran the now defunct Sports Australia channels.
- It owned Australia Television (now Australia Network), a FTA satellite service broadcasting to Asia and the Pacific.
- It and Granada Television each owned half of the Red Heart production company. The two companies retain close ties.
