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Is the CEO and majority stock-owner of Newscorp., a public company which owns several major media enterprises, among which are the FOX broadcast network, the Fox News Channel , 20th Century Fox Film Corp., The New York Post, Reganbooks and HarperCollins Publishers, the BSkyb satellite company, The London Times, and many others around the world. Owned the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise from 1998-2004, which he purchased from the O'Malley family. In November 2003, he made his younger son James (then 30 years of age) the chief executive of BSkyB, of which he himself is chairman and the biggest shareholder (34.3%). Until then, his older son Lachlan Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer at News Corp. and head of the New York Post and the company's television stations) had seemed to be the heir apparent. When he went on a buying spree of Australian newspapers, he was given the derisive nickname "Koala Kong" by his critics. His two young daughters from Wendi Deng have "playtime sessions" with Hugh Jackman's two adopted children in New York. Studied politics, economics and philosophy at Worchester College, Oxford University. Played himself in an episode of "The Simpsons" (1989), introducing himself as "Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant", and was lampooned in several other episodes of the show. On the prospect of Murdoch acquiring the Chicago Sun-Times, where daily columnist Mike Royko shifted from the Chicago Daily News following its demise, Royko famously said "no self-respecting fish" would allow itself to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper. With Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun-Times, Royko shifted employers again and wrote his column for the Chicago Tribune.