Media Conglomerates: Who Owns What?
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There are about 6 major media conglomerates in the U.S.
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What is a conglomerate you ask? Basically when companies merge under ownership.Some conglomerates have so much power and ownership, that their costs are drastically reduced increasing their overall profit. And think about cross promotion… when you watch the history channel why do you see a lot of ABC commercials or Lifetime commercials?
So lets take a look at some major media conglomerates today: who owns what?(i’ll only list the well known ones, but if you want to see all of what they own click the link below)
Taken from here:
DISNEY:
- ABC Radio Networks
- A&E – (37.5% Disney-owned)
- E! Entertainment Television – (34.4% Disney-owned)
- ESPN Radio
- ESPN Sportszone
- History Channel, The – (37.5% Disney-owned)
- Lifetime – (50% Disney-owned)
- Radio Disney
NEWS CORP: (Rupert Murdoch is crazy..)
- 20th Century Fox
- BSkyB
- Fox Movie Channel
- FOXNews.com
- FoxTel
Newspapers:
- The Courier-Mail
- Herald Sun
- New York Post
- Post-Courier Online
- The Sun
- The Times
- The Weekly Times
SONY CORP:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Sony Pictures
- Columbia Records
- Epic Records
- RCA Records
- RCA Victor
- Sony BMG Masterworks
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- Sony Music USA
TIME WARNER
- AOL Time Warner
- AOL Instant Messenger
- ICQ
- Netscape
- Winamp
- Warner Bros.
- Atlantic Records
- Rhino Records
- Warner Brothers Records
- Bay News 9
- NY1 News
- Turner Classic Movies
VIACOM
- CBS
- UPN
- Dreamworks
- Paramount Pictures
- Comedy Central
- Country Music Television (CMT)
- Noggin
- Showtime
- Spike TV
- Sundance Channel
- TV Land
- VH1
- Paramount theme parks
VIVENDI:
- Universal Studios
- Def Jam.com
- Motown Records
6 companies controlling almost all the media.. hmm
More on cross promotion later, inshaAllah.
My house is...
AE Says: 12.02.08 at 5:51 pm
You forgot The Wall Street Journal!
One of his most coveted – and for me saddest – deals.
Shirien Says: 13.02.08 at 1:18 pm
yeah defiantly, i was really surprised to learn Rupert Murdoch owned it. It’s interesting because so many people wonder why there isnt a media outlet that is so much less bias than the most. well this answers it, because they are all owned by the same big 6. They are an oligopoly working with monopolistic powers.
Shirien Says: 13.02.08 at 3:33 pm
Yahoo in talks with News Corp:… hmm lets begin to add this to the list: which will also be a sad deal….
Yahoo! Inc., fighting off a takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., is in talks with News Corp., according to a report on The Wall Street Journal’s web site.
The talks, according to the Journal are an attempt to fend off Microsoft’s offer, which was initially valued at $44.6 billion.
For many, Yahoo! has come to symbolize the Web. Its playful name and colorful logo defined Internet style, and its signature yodel was a siren song for people who were curious about a new media known as “the World Wide Web.”
Created in 1994 by a pair of Stanford graduate students as a simple directory of interesting Web sites, Yahoo! went public early in 1996. It was valued at $848 million after its first day of trading despite widespread suspicion about the viability of advertising-supported Web sites.
But the company quickly disproved naysayers by attracting mainstream advertisers and turning a profit.
Yahoo! capitalized on the rapidly growing interest in the Internet, offering news, financial information, television listings, games, and other content, plus services such as e-mail, web-hosting, shopping and community sites.
But Yahoo!’s stock price had dropped by more than 40 percent in the three months leading up to Microsoft’s bid, which was announced Feb. 1. The offer was 62 percent above Yahoo’s market value at the time.
Shirien Says: 13.02.08 at 3:34 pm
it’s also funny that the news was FIRST reported by the wall street journal.. coincidence? nope.
MrEspy Says: 20.02.08 at 11:25 pm
http://adbusters.org/blogs/Big_Ideas_The_Future_of_Media_Activism.html