Who
Controls the Media?
Source: National
Organization for Women Foundation (NOW), Nation Magazine,
takebackthemedia.com, mediachannel.org
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Parent
Company |
Networks
Owned |
Cable
Interests
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Web |
Print |
Music |
Movies |
Other
Interests |
General
Electric
$100.5 billion
1998 revenues
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NBC
includes programming,
news
and more than
13 TV and radio
stations |
- A&E (with Disney and
Hearst)
- American Movie Classics (25%)
- Biography Channel (with Disney and Hearst)
- Bravo (50%)
- Bravo International
- CNBC
- Court TV (with AOL-TW)
- Fox Sports Net
- History Channel (with Disney and Hearst)
- Independent Film
Channel
- MSG Network
- MSNBC (50%)
- National Geographic
Worldwide
- News Sport
- Prime
- Prism (withRainbow, a subsidiary of Cablevision, and Liberty Media, a subsidiary of TCI)
- Romance Classics
- Sports Channel Cincinnati, Chicago, Florida, New England, Pacific, Ohio, Philadelphia
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AOL-Time
Warner
$26.8 billion
1998 revenues
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TURNER
BROADCASTING
WB
Television Network
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- Cartoon Network
- Cinemax (75%) with AT&T (25%)
- CNN
- CNN Airport Network
- CNN International
- CNN/SI with Sports Illustrated
- CNNfn financial network
- CNNRadio
- Comedy Central (37.5%) with Viacom (50%), AT&T (12.5%)
- Court TV (33%) with GE
- Headline News
- HBO (75%) with AT&T (25%)
- HBO Direct Broadcast
- OVATION (50%)
- Sega Channel
- Sportsouth
- TBS Superstation
- TNT
- Turner Classic Movies
- TVKO (75%)
- Women's Information
Television (WIN) (partial)
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- AOL including
AOL Instant Messenger
- CompuServe
- Netscape
- ICQ Instant Messenger
- MusicNet.com
- digitalcity
- moviefone
- mapquest
- Spinner.com
- winamp
- SHOUTcast
- Amazon.com
(2%)
- Dr. Koop (10%)
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- Time
- Life
- People
- Mad Magazine
- DC Comics
(with AT&T)
- IPC Publishing (UK)
- Warner Books
- Little, Brown
- Time-Life Books
(with Bertelsmann)
- BOMC
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- Warner
Bros.
- Atlantic
- Elektra
- London-Sire
- Rhino
- Warner-Chappell
Publishers
- Quincy Jones
Entertainment Co. (with
AT&T, Quincy Jones)
- Columbia House (with Sony)
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- Warner
Bros.
- New
Line
- Fine Line (with AT&T)
- MGM
library
- RKO
library
- UCI Theaters (with Viacom)
- WF Cinema (with Viacom)
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- Warner
HomeVideo
- Atlanta
Braves
- Atlanta
Hawks
- Atlanta
Thrashers
- Goodwill
Games
- Phillips
Arena
- Time
Warner Telecom
- Warner
Bros. Studio Stores
- Sportsline
Radio
<>Movie
World Theme
Park (Australia) with
AT&T, Village Roadshow
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The
Walt Disney Co.
$23 billion
1998 revenues |
ABC
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- A&E (37.5% with Hearst and GE)
- Biography Channel (with GE and Hearst)
- Buena Vista
Television
- Classic Sports
Network
- Disney Channel
- Disney
Television (58 hours/week
syndicated
programming
- E!
(35%)
- ESPN
(80% with Hearst)
- ESPN2 (80% with Hearst)
- ESPN Classic (80% with Hearst)
- ESPN West (80% with Hearst)
- ESPNews (80% with Hearst)
- History Channel (37.5% with Hearst and GE)
- Lifetime Network (50%)
- Toon Disney
- Touchstone Television
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Bertelsmann
$16.3 billion
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Channel 5 (UK) |
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- Lycos.com
- BarnesandNoble.com
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- Random House
- Gruner & Jahr
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Viacom
$12.86 billion
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CBS
UPN
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- All News Channel (50%)
- CBS Telenoticias (30%)
- Comedy
Central (50%)with AOL-TW (37.5%), AT&T
- FLIX
- Home Team Sports (66% with News Corporation)
- M2: Music Television
- Midwest Sports
Channel
- Movie Channel
- MTV
- Nick at Nite's TVLand
- Nickelodeon
- Paramount Networks
- Showtime
- Sundance Channel (45%)
- TNN
- VH1
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- Paramount
- United Cinema
International (with Vivendi)
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News
Corporation
$13.5 billion
1998 revenues
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FOX
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- FIT TV Partnership
- Fox
Family Channel (50%)
- Fox News Channel
- Fox Sports Net (25% with TCI, GE and Cablevision)
- fx
(50% with TCI's Liberty Media)
- fxM
(50% with TCI's Liberty Media)
- National Geographic
Channel (50%)
- TV Guide Channel
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- NY Post (U.S.)
- The Times (UK)
- The Sun (UK)
- The Australian (Aus.)
- Daily Telegraph(Aus.)
- Sunday Tasmanian(Aus.)
- Harper Collins
Publishing
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- Australian
National Rugby
League
- LA
Dodgers
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Sony
$53.8 billion
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TELEMUNDO
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- Game Show Network
(50% with Liberty)
- Music Choice (With
AOL-TW, EMI, AT&T)
- Soap City
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- American
- Columbia
- Epic
- Sony
- Columbia House
(50% with AOL-TimeWarner)
- Whitefield Recording
Studios
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- Columbia Pictures
- Screen Gems
- Sony Pictures
Classics
- Revolution Studios
(with News Corp., Aol-TW, Disney)
- Loews Theatres (with Goldman-Sachs)
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- PlayStation
- RED Distribution
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AT&T (TCI)
$7.6 billion
1997 revenues
part of
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WB
(25%) with AOL-TW,
Tribune Co.)
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- Action Pay-per-view
- Animal
Planet
- BET (Black
Entertainment
Television)
- including BET on
Jazz, BET Movies/Starz! 3
- Box
- Cinemax (25%)
with AOL-TW
(75%)
- Comedy Central (12.5%) with
AOL-TW (37.5%), Viacom
- Comcast
- Court TV
- CNN
- Discovery
Channel
- E!
- Encore
- Fox Sports Net
- HBO (25%)
with AOL-TW
(75%)
- Headline News
- Home Shopping Network
- International Channel
- Learning Channel
- MSG Network
- Music Choice
- Outdoor Life
- Prevue Channel
- Prime Sports Channel
- QVC
- Q2
- Roadrunner
- Speedvision
- TCI
- Telemundo
- Time-Warner/TurnerUSA
Network (10%)
- Sci-Fi Network
- Starz!
- Starz! 2
- Style
- TNT
- Travel Channel
- TVKO
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- Warner Bros. Studio
Stores
- Movie World Theme
Park (Australia) with AOL-TW,
Village Roadshow)
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Vivendi
Universal
(Seagram)
revenues not yet
available
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- Sci-Fi
network
- USA network
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- CineplexOdeon
- United Cinema
International (with AOL-TW)
- Universal Studios
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- Universal TV
- Vivendi Telecom
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Liberty Media
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