UPDATE 1-News Corp posts 4th-qtr profit helped by ads, cable

* Fiscal Q4 EPS 33 cents vs 8 cents year ago

* Ad recovery at newspapers, cable strength drive profit

* Revenue up 5 pct to 8.11 billion

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O) NWS.N swung to a profit in its fourth quarter due to a strong performance from its cable networks and increased advertising revenue at its newspapers.

The company, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, posted a profit of $875 million, or 33 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, compared with a loss of $203 million, or 8 cents a share, a year ago when News Corp took an impairment charge.

Revenue rose 5 percent to $8.11 billion. Analysts, on average, had been expecting revenue of $8.05 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

News Corp is home to Fox broadcast and cable networks, Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, and newspapers including The Wall Street Journal.

Shares in News Corp have risen some 12 percent since the start of the year, ahead of the S&P Movies & Entertainment Index .GSPENTE, which is up 8 percent in that same period.

An advertising rebound coupled with cost cuts helped operating income grow 20 percent at its newspapers in the United States and internationally.

Fox's cable networks also had strong revenue growth, helping to push operating income in the unit up 31 percent.

Growth in profits at cable and newspapers was offset by declines at its satellite TV and marketing services as well as losses at its digital unit, which includes social networking site MySpace. (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke)