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Who Owns The Network News Janus Capital Corporation owns 6% MUSIC American Recordings, Asylum Atlantic, Atlantic Classics, Atlantic Jazz, Atlantic Nashville, Atlantic National Amusements Inc. (68%) AOL/ Theater, Big Beat, Breaking, Coalition, Curb, East Murdoch family controls 30% GENERAL ELECTRIC West, Elektra, Giant, Igloo, Lava, Mesa/Bluemoon, AT&T owns 8% OTHER Maverick (w/Madonna), Modern, Nonsuch, Qwest, Strong Capital Management 9% BET Design Studio (w/G-III MOVIES 143 (joint venture), Reprise, Reprise Nashville, BOOKS Waddell & Reed Asset Management Co. 9% VIACOM INC Apparel Group, Ltd.) produces SPORTS 2000 revenues: $111.6 billion APPLIANCES TIME WARNER and distributes Exsto XXIV VII Warner Bros. (75% w/25% AT&T), New Line 2000 revenues: $36.2 billion Revolution, Sire, Strickly Rhythm (joint venture), News America imprints include HarperCollins, (all owned 25% w/29% AT&T and 46% CABLEVISION) Walt Disney Company clothing and accessories GE, Hotpoint, Monogram, Profile and other Cinema, Fine Line Features; Castle Rock Teldec, Warner Nashville, Warner Alliance, Warner NEWS CORPORATION Regan Books, William Morrow and Avon; Madison Square Garden Arena and Theater; 2000 Revenues: $25.4 billion brand name appliances; Light bulbs and Entertainment; Warner Bros. joint ventures Resound, Warner Sunset, Other intrests include: 2000 Revenues: $14 billion Zondervan, largest commercial Bible imprint Management and operation of Hartford Civic lighting fixtures THE WALT DISNEY include Bel-Air Entertainment (w/Canal+), Warner/Chappell Music (publishing), WEA Inc.(sales, Center; New York Knicks, New York Rangers, MOVIES Village Roadshow Pictures, Gaylord BOOKS distribution and manufacturing), Ivy Hill Corp. BANKING New York Liberty, New England Seawolves, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies Entertainment;and some HBO divisions; Warner Books (imprints include: Warner (printing and packaging), Joint Ventures music OTHER NEWSPAPERS MOVIES BET Financial Services New England Seawolves, Hartford Wolfpack Messaging services, AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Snow Day), MTV Films (The Original BOOKS distribution arrangements with Alcon Vision, The Mysterious Press, Warner Aspect Sound Exchange (w/Sony), and Heartland Music Twentieth Century Fox Licensing Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone internet & intranet NY Post; In UK: the Sun, the Times, News of the COMPANY Kings of Comedy) BET and Arabesque Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, For military and commercial planes Entertainment, Morgan Creek Productions, and Warner Treasures), Little, Brown and Co. (50%); majority interest in Alternative Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, PLASTICS services VENUES World; The Australian, The Telegraph, The Herald Scribner and The Free Press; MOVIE THEATRES ($1.6 billion from aircraft engine sales RETAIL ( imprints include:Bulfinch Press and Back Distribution Alliance ("independent distribution Miramax Film Corp., Dimension, Walt Disney Company PROFESSIONAL Films Franchise Entertainment; library of MGM, RKO Madison Square Garden Sun, and others in Australia, New Zealand and the LIVE VENUE Clearview Cinema Group (owned 25% w/29% For cars, computers, to US military in 1999) Warner Bros, Studio Stores Bay Books), Time-Life Books, Oxmoor company"); Quincy Jones Entertainment Buena Vista International 2000 Revenues: $25.4 billion Distribution venues include UIP (33% divisions in the UK and Australia; and pre-1950 Warner Bros. films (40% with Cablevision 45%, NBC/GE 15%) South Pacific SPORTS Tres Jazz (w/Park Place Entertainment) jazz restaurant in ATT and 46% CABLE VISION) compact disks, appliances (75% w/25% AT&T) House, Leisure Arts and Sunset Books Co. (37.5% w/ 12.5% AT&T and 50% WEB (international distribution arm); w/MGM and 33% Vivendi); HOME Arabesque Books Management of Radio City Music Hall the Paris Las Vegas Casino and Resort; BET and construction materials Most will close in 2001 Quincy Jones) Columbia House (50% News, sports, entertainment and game sites HOME VIDEO Distributed 3 of the Mighty Ducks VIDEO: Blockbuster (82%); Paramount Home Video: Warner Home Video (75% w/25% and the Rockettes SoundStage, theme-based restaurants in Largo, MD, and FINANCING & INSURANCE Book Clubs: Book-of-the-Month Club, w/50% Sony); Warner Bros. related to News Corp properties; stakes in other 10 top selling videos, including and the Anaheim Angels Home Entertainment, Paramount Home LIVE VENUES AT&T); TiVo (w/Philips and others) (40% with Cablevision 45%, NBC/GE 15%) MUSIC Memphis, TN; BET SoundStage Club, dance club at Paperback Book Club, Children’s Book-of - publications (publishes printed music) sites including ChinaByte.com, broadsystem.com; the top 2 titles, and 3 of the 10 MUSIC RETAIL Entertainment, Int'l.; TiVo (w/GE and Disney World; World Wrestling Federation Entertainment World Wrestling Federation (3% w/3% Viacom) Bringing in almost half www.tvguide.com; (44% w/ 44% AT&T) online Staples Center (40%) Festival, Rawkus and Mushroom labels others) MOVIE THEATERS: About 1,800 SATELLITES Movie Theaters: UCI (50% w/50% Viacom); WF the-Month-Club, History Book Club and top rentals in 2000 Walt Disney, Hollywood, 741 Stores MAGAZINES (3% w/3% GE and others); House of Blues Entertainment Freight and of GE’s annual revenues. Money Book Club program listings, movie database, soap opera scheduled to be the home of the Los Angeles Mammoth, and Lyric Street movie screens in the U.S., Canada, GE Americom operates 13 Cinema Holdings, L.P. (50% w/ 50% Viacom) WEB BET Weekend (w/New York Daily Inc. (w/that company); Nickelodeon Recreation (traveling passenger trains news & updates, etc. Kings, Lakers and the Clippers LICENSING Europe, Asia and South America through WEB negotiating to buy WestStar theatres; Warner Records News) and Emerge Magazine, live shows and other attractions including Moby Nick, communications satellites America Online (26 million customers), CompuServe (3 million beginning in October 1999 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Licenses characters for clothes, Famous Players, UCI (50% w/50% NBC Internet Inc. Bros. International Theaters customers), Netscape (software and portal), digitalcity.com, toys, gifts, home furnishing and both monthly magazines targeted multimedia lab in Australia) MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Dodger Stadium PLAYS Theatrical productions of Beauty AOL/TW); WF Cinema Holdings, L.P. (47.3% w/38.8% Xoom.com and 13.8% CNET moviefone.com, iamaze.com, quack.com, and mapquest.com; TV SPORTS Broadway productions housewares, stationery, sporting toward African Americans; Heart and the Beast, the Lion King, The (50% interest w/ 50% AOL TW) Inc.) includes Snap, NBC.com, NBC-IN.com , MR and CT scanners, x-ray, nuclear imaging TV ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (messaging services); Stakes in: goods, books and magazines & Soul Magazine, health & beauty Los Angeles Dodgers; Los Angeles Kings and their of The Lion King and Beauty and Hunchback of Notre Dame and negotiating to buy WestStar theatres. VideoSeeker, CNBC.com (10%) and ultrasound machines WB Spinner.com, Winamp and SHOUTcast (music sites), targeted toward Black women; TV MAGAZINES new arena, Staples Center (40% with AT&T); option the Beast Aida; New Amsterdam Theatre on (67% w/22.25% Tribune Co. Earthnoise.com, Kinkos.com; joint partnerships in Europe (50% Nickelodeon Magazine WEB 63 including the 3 best-selling: Time, Life and to buy 10% of Los Angeles Lakers; Stakes in NY Broadway Stakes in other sites include: and 11% WB officers ); w/Bertelsmann; sale pending); in Australia (50% w/ AAPT MTVi (90% w/10% AT&T) includes MTV.com, VH1.com, POWER SYSTEMS People; MAD Magazine, DC Comics (87.5% Knicks and Rangers; National Rugby League (50%) Salon.com (10%);Launch Media (11% w/Sony CABLE NBC w/12.5% AT&T); American Express Publishing Limited), in Latin America (w/ Cisneros Group and Banco Itau) TV Country.com, Imagine Radio and SonicNet.com, and others) provides downloadable music; RADIO RADIO TV Equipment for refineries, ammonia plants Corp.(ownership stake); RoadRunner (being restructured to give AOL/TW majority stake MARKETING PRODUCTION Nickelodeon Online includes Nick.com, NickJR.com, A&E, History Channel, and Biography 50 Stations INFINITY 184 radio stations; CBS iVillage, Inc. (w/AOL/TW, AT&T, Tenet Healthcare CNBC and nuclear reactors in partnership w/ AT&T and Advance-Newhouse) Cable modems News Corp. controls about half the US coupon Twentieth Century Fox Television TVLand.com, Nick-at-Nite.com, Gas.Nick.com Corp.) site for women; Autobytel.com Inc. (9.5%), Channel (all 25% /37.5% Disney and FOX ABC Radio Network; Radio RESORTS TV STATIONS BOOKS Radio Network; Radio NETWORKS MSNBC PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION - 1 million customers business through stakes in in-store and printed Twentieth Television; Fox Television Teachers.Nick.com, and Red Rocket (w/AT&T); Stakes iXL Enterprises, Inc. (9.4%); Interactive Pictures 37.5% Hearst); Snap TV (80%); National 203 affiliated stations Disney; ESPN Radio Walt Disney World, Reaches 24% of U.S. households Hyperion, Miramax Books, programming; Westwood One CBS, UPN, MTV, MTV2, VH1, Showtime, (50% W/ 50% New Line Television coupon businesses; Studios; Greenblatt/Janollari Studios; also in iWon, Inc., Sportsline.com, Inc., Corporation (5.75% w/Motorola, AT&T, and Lee Geographic Channel (25% w/ News Corp INTERNATIONAL TV HOLDINGS (80% w/20% Hearst) Disney Cruise Line WABC New York Disney Children's Book (18%) and Sportsline Radio (20% Showtime Beyond, Showtime Extreme, Microsoft) Warner Bros.Television newspaper inserts in 630 U.S. and 140 Canadian Natural History Limited; Fox Family TV NETWORKS