THE BIG 6 CORPORATIONS

News Corporation (abbreviated to Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the world's largest media conglomerates. Its is Murdoch, an influential and controversial media tycoon. is a listed on the Exchange and as a secondary listing on the Stock Exchange (LSE: NCRA). Formerly incorporated in , , the company was re- incorporated in the state of after a majority of shareholders approved the on 12 November 2004. The company is still listed on Stock Exchange (ASX: NWS). News Corporation's United States headquarters is on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in , in the 1960s-1970s portion of the complex. Revenue for the year ended 30 June 2005 was $23.859 billion. This does not include News Corporation's share of the revenue of businesses in which it owns a minority stake, which include two of its most important assets, DirecTV and BSkyB. Almost 70% of the company's sales come from its US businesses.

In 2007 News Corporation reached an agreement to purchase Dow Jones, publishers of , for an estimated $5.6 billion. On 15 October 2007 the corporation spun off a business news channel from - Network

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Film/TV Production and Distribution 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox Home 20th Century Fox TV Fox Filmed Entertainment Fox 2000 Blue Studios Fox Fox Studios(defunct) Fox Family World Wide Fox Faith FX Network SPEED channel Fuel TV National Geographic Channel Fox News IGN Entertainment Inc New World Communications Direct TV News Papers/Magazines/Publishers (select) (Eng) (Eng) HarperCollins Perennial TV Guide Radio/Multimedia (select) Sky Radio News American The Street.com Line One Orbis Myspace Records (select) Fox sports Photobucket Myspace IGN

Å The Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as a small , it is one of the largest studios and also owns theme parks and several networks, including ABC. Disney's corporate headquarters and primary production facilities are located at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, . The company is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It had revenues of $31.9 billion in 2005. Motion Pictures Group. On August 31, 2009, Disney announced plans to acquire the assets of publisher Entertainment, in a deal estimated to cost $4 billion.

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Film/TV Production and Distribution Walt Disney Feature Animation Animation Studios /Televison The Buena Vista Television//Entertainment Hollywood Pictures ESPN (80%) A&E Television The History Channel Lifetime Televison/Network (50%) E! Entertainment (35%) ABC/Capital Cities Television Network (select) Mammoth Records Lyric Street Records News Papers/Magazines/Publishers (select) Walt Disney Mirimax Books Hyperions Books ESPN Mag Discover Mag Biography Mag NFL.com NBA.com NASCAR.com Mobile (select)

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Viacom is a "high-growth" media with various worldwide interests in cable and networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (part of Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). is the President and Chief Executive Officer; is the Chairman and, through , majority shareholder of .. The Original Viacom split off as CBS coporation in March 2005.

On February 1, 2006, Paramount completed its long-awaited acquisition of DreamWorks. On April 24, Viacom obtained Xfire. In August, just hours before announcing its most recent quarterly earnings, Viacom announced that it had acquired Atom Entertainment for $200 million. In September, Viacom acquired game developer for $175 million dollars.

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Film/TV Production and Distribution Paramount Pictures/Television/Home VideoClassics MTV Networks/Films VH1, CMT, SPIKE TV, BET DreamWorks/DreamWorks Television Showtime The Sundance Channel Wilshire Court Productions Spelling Entertainment Group (80%) Spelling Films Republic Entertainment Big Ticket Television Hamilton Projects TNN Televisoin CBS Production EYEMARK Kingworld Production News Papers/Magazines/Publishers (select) Fireside The MTV Books Nickelodeon Books Simon & Schuster Touchstone Washington Square Press International Book Distributors Radio/Multimedia (select) Youtube.com Flix Trek Franchise Sega Xfire Å Å Corporation (ソニー株式会社 Sonī Kabushiki-gaisha?) is Japanese multinational corporation and one of the leading manufacturers of video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., and a 50% interest in Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the second- largest record company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $67 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, and it employs 151,400 people worldwide. Sony's consolidated sales in the U.S. for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 were $18.4 billion.Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Film/TV Production and Distribution Columbia Tri-Star TriStar Pictures Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (20%) Jim Hensen Productions Mandalay Entertainment (partial) HBO (Partial) Showtime (Partial) International Television Ventures Radio/Multimedia (select) Sony Playstation Sony Electronics Franchise

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Time Warner Inc. or TimeWarner (NYSE: TWX) (AOL Time Warner Inc. between 2001 and 2003) In 2000, a company called AOL Time Warner, with Steve Case as chairman, was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for 164 Billion dollars. It is the world's largest media company with major Internet, publishing, film, telecommunications and television divisions. The company is headquartered in New York City, Warner Bros. Studios. On January 24, 2006,ÅCBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that they were to create a new broadcast network, The CW Television Network. The network officially debuted on September 18, 2006. In the summer of 2008, the Reader's Digest Association sold QSP to Time Warner Time Inc. for $110 million.

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Film/TV Production and Distribution Warner Brothers Studios/Televions/Network Warner Independent Pictures Fine Line Feattures Turner Originals Productions HBO Films/Home Video/Animation/Sports/etc CNN, TNT, TBS , , WB TV network Cinemax,, Cartoon Network. AOL and Compuserve, Nullsoft, Mapquest, Netscape Time Magazine, Fortune, SIllustrated, People,. Castle Rock Entertainment, Major League Baseball Warner Brothers, DC comics, Mad Magazine NewLine Cinema , Turner . Court TV Hanna - Barbera Cartoons Production Witt - Thomas Productions Castle Rock Entertainment News Papers/Magazines/Publishers (select) Publishing Corporation (partial ownership/management) DC Comics People Magazine (time inc.) Radio/Multimedia (select) AOL

NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Universal Entertainment, part of French Vivendi Universal. GE owns 80% of NBC Universal with the remaining 20% owned by Vivendi Universal and . The company develops, produces, and markets entertainment, news, and information to a global customer base. NBC Universal owns and operates a United States television network and group of stations, a Spanish-language network, a portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a motion picture company, a number of television production companies, and several theme parks. Bob Wright, who serves as vice chairman of General Electric, is Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal.

In March 2007, NBC announced that it would offer full-length prime-time television shows like The Office and Heroes on-demand to play on mobile phones. This was a first for the United States, as the market shifts away from traditional television.

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Film/TV Production and Distribution Universal Studios Universal Animation Studios American Movie Classics Bravo Paxson Communications National Geographics TV CNBC MSNBC A&E Entertainment History Channel Prime Network NBC Valuevision Franchises (select) Heroes

THE 1 MINOR ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION

CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is a focused largely on the United States market, specifically broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production. The President and CEO of the company is Leslie Moonves. Sumner Redstone, whose company National Amusements is CBS's majority shareholder, serves as Chairman. The company split from Viacom and officially became its own publicly traded corporation on December 31, 2005.CBS, UPN, CBS Radio, Simon & Schuster, , Viacom Outdoor, Showtime,

Viacom found that the promised synergy was not there, and at of 2005 it split itself in two. CBS became the center of a new company, CBS Corporation, which included the broadcasting elements, 's production operations (renamed CBS Television Studios), UPN (which later merged with Time Warner's The WB into The CW), Viacom Outdoor (renamed CBS Outdoor), Showtime, Simon & Schuster, and Paramount Parks, which the company sold in May 2006.

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Film/TV Production and Distribution CBS Televison, UPN (soon to be merged with The WB as CW in the fall of 2006), CSTV Networks, CBS Television Stations Television production and distribution: CBS Paramount Television, King World, etc. CBS Radio CBS Digital Media CBS Outdoor Simon & Schuster Paramount Parks (sale pending) CBS Consumer Products Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1998) Franchises (select) Survivor 60 Minutes The Price is right

THE “MAJOR” STUDIOS

The “Major” Movie Studios are studios that produce many multiple films per year. These major movie studios include studios that are old (Walt Disney Pictures and Universal) and newer studios (Lions Gate Films and New Line). These movie studios are contrasted with other smaller movie studios, which are known as independent (indie) studios. Typically Hollywood-based, some of these studios are part of six umbrella corporations, known as the Big Six. –

20th Century Fox Buena Vista/Walt Disney Pictures Lions Gate Films New Line Cinema Paramount Pictures Universal Studios Warner Bros.