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Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born American media owner was voted Best of British by the
Sunday Express in London last week.
He is the most famous   1   owner in the world and   2    newspapers and TV channels across the
world.     3    now he has been called the greatest    4   in Britain by one of his biggest rivals
(竞争对手) .
The paper, which competes for_  5    with Murdoch's own papers, called him "the man who made
modem Britain" and it    6     Murdoch for his willingness to take risks.    7    said he had brought a
"revolution" to television and newspaper production.
Rupert Murdoch、was born in Melbourne,    8   , in 1931. Today he is better _ 9   as the owner
of News Corporation Ltd., a media group that owns many different _10     of media: television, films,
books,  and the Internet.
    11    becoming the success he is today, Murdoch studied at Oxford University in Britain. He
returned to Australia in 1952, when he  12    The Adelaide News from  his father. His life since then
can be seen as a series of international jumps in which he's   13   more and more newspapers and TV
stations.
In the 1960s, it was The Mirror in Sydney and the Sun, in London; in the 1970s, he bought the New
York Post; in the 1980s, he took on Hollywood when he bought 20th Century Fox and Fox TV. At this
time he also bought The Times and The Sunday; Times in  London. And most   14    in the 1990s, he
bought Star Television in Asia.
His company has also formed a joint-venture(合资的) television company with the Chinese
Government, Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd(凤凰卫视控股有限公司 ). It    15   six
channels-Xingkong weishi, Channel V, Star Movies, National Geographic Star Sports and ESPN-to
millions of Chinese   16    .
One    17    how Murdoch could have found the time for love and relationships since he owns such a
big business. In 1967, he married Anna Troy, whom he met   18  _she was a reporter on The Sydney
Daily Mirror. The couple got    19   in 1998. The next year, he married Chinese-born Wendy Deng.
Deng, Murdoch's third wife, is 37 years younger than Murdoch and used to work    20    Star TV in
HongKong. The 71-year-old Murdoch is now father of five children after Deng gave birth to a baby
daughter last year.

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