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you can see, in the chart below, there are four main entities in the USA
who own most of the media outlets, publishing companies, online, movie,
multimedia and video industries, and more. Would you be surprised if all
four of them were taking orders from one source?
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Credits:
Research by Mark Crispin Miller and Janine Jaquet Bidon, 1996
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on at this time - just to give our readers some idea of how much of the
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The Media Monopoly Web |
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| Disney
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| ABC |
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TV Stations:
- New York
- Illinois
- California [3]
- Texas
- Pennsylvania
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Ohio
Also owns 14% of Young Broadcasting which owns stations in
the following states:
- Illinois
- New York
- Michigan
- Louisiana
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
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ABC Radio |
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ABC Video |
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ABC Network News
- This Week With David Binkley
- Prime Time Live
- World News This Morning
- 20/20
- Good Morning America Sunday
- World News Tonight with Peter Jenings
- Good Morning America
- World News Tonight
- World News Now
- Nightline |
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Magazines
- Chilton Publications
- Fairchild Publications
- L.A. Magazine
- Institutional Investor
- Disney Publishing Inc. |
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Multimedia
- Disney Interactive
- Disney.com
- Americast (with some Baby Bell companies; In development)
- ABC Online (interactive network for America Online) |
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Music
- Hollywood Records
- Wonderland Music
- Walt Disney Records |
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Theme
Parks / Resorts
- Disneyland
- Walt Disney World Resort
- Disneyland parks (39%)
- Tokyo Disneyland (royalties and fees only)
- WCO Vacationland Resort
- Celebration (Planned community near Orlando - in development)
- Disney Cruiseline (planned) |
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Retail
- 429 Disney stores
- Childcraft Education (mail order toys) |
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Motion
Pictures
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Touchstone Pictures
- Hollywood Pictures
- Miramax Film Corp
- Buena Vista Pictures (distribution arm) |
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Newspapers
- Texas
- Kansas
- Mousouri
- Maine
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Oregon
- Sutton Industries (shopper)
- Penny Power (shopper) |
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TV
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- Disney Channel
- Disney Television
- Touchstone Television
- A&E
- Lifetime Network
- ESPN
- ESPN2
- Buena Vista Television |
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Home
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- Buena Vista Television |
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Book
publishing
- Hyperion Books
- Chilton Publications |
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| Westinghouse
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Communications
and information
- Telephone, network and wireless
communications systems; security systems |
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W Satellite Communications
- Satellite distribution of TV programming |
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| CBS |
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TV Stations:
- Denver
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
- Utah
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- California
- New York
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Maryland
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CBS Radio
- 1,900 stations carry CBS programming, about 450 carry CBS
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Cable
- CMT: Country Music Televistion
- Home Team Sports
- TNN: The Nashville Network |
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CBS Network News
- CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
- CBS Morning News
- CBS News Sunday Morning
- CBS This Morning
- 60 Minutes
- Face the Nation
- Up to the Minute
- 48 Hours |
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| General Electric |
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Communications
- GE Americom (satellite)
- GE Capital Communications Services |
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Networking
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- GE Information Services |
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Cable
- CNBC
- Court TV (owned with Time Warner)
- Bravo
- American Movie Classics
- America's Talking
- A&E (owned with Disney and Hearst)
NBC owns part of the following:
- History Channel
- Independent Film Channel
- News Sport
- Primne
- Prism
- Romance Classics
+7 regional sports channels:
- Sports Channel Cincinnati
- Chicago
- Florida
- New England
- Pacific
- Ohio
- Philadelphia
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| NBC |
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TV Stations:
- New York
- California
- Illinois
- Pennsylvania
- D.C.
- Florida
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Rhode Island
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NBC Radio
now owned by Westwood One, which
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NBC Network News
- The Today Show
- Weekend Today
- Meet the Press
- Dateline NBC
- NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
- Nightside
- NBC News at Sunrise |
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| Time Warner
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Motion
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- Warner
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- Warner Brothers Animated |
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Music
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Warner/Chappel Publishing
- The Atlantic Group
- Time Warner Audio Books
- Electra Entertainment Group
- Warner Brothers Records
- Warner Music International
- SubPop (part ownership)
- Columbia House (part ownership) |
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TV
programming
- Warner
Brothers Television
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Time
Warner Entertainment
- Six Flags
- Cable franchises (11.7 million subscribers) |
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Magazines
- Time
- Fortune
- Life
- Sports Illustrated
- Vibe
- People
- Money
- In Style
- Sports Illustrated for Kids
- Parenting
- Baby Talk
- Martha Stewart Living
- Sunset
- Health
- Hippocrates
- Asia Week
- President
- Dancyu
- Who
- Entertainment Weekly
- Cooking Light
- Southern Living
- DC Comics
- American Lawyer |
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Home
Video
- Time-Life
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- HBO Home Video
- Warner Home Video |
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Book
publishing
- Oxmoor
House
- Sunset Books
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Time-Life Books
- Warner Books
- Book-of-the-Month Club |
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Court
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HBO
HBO
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Sega
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Comedy
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Home
Entertainment
- Turner Home Entertainment
- Domestic Home Video
- Turner Home Satellite
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Book
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Multimedia
- CNN
Interactive (Internet site)
- Turner New Media (CD-ROMs) |
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Programing/production
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World Championship Wrestling
- Hanna-Barbara Cartoons
- New Line Cinema
- Castle Rock Entertainment
- Turner Entertainment Co.
MGM
RKO
Pre-1950 Warner Brothers films
- Turner Original Productions
- Turner Pictures |
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Superstation
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CNN
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Headline News
- CNN Airport Network
- CNN International
- Sportsouth (regional sports network)
- CNN
- CNN Radio
- CNNfn (financial network)
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