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This site offers profiles of current and past major media
groups, particularly those with an interest in Australia.
It also offers less detailed notes.
Those groups encompass the production and distribution
of -
- books,
newspapers, journals, consumer magazines and comics
- online
content
-
recorded music
- film
and video
- radio
and television broadcast content
- theatrical
content and operation of theme parks
- computer
games
There
is complementary coverage of major advertising groups.
list of profiled media groups
This list covers active and defunct media organisations
from the public and private sectors -
- ABC
and SBS - Australian public broadcasters
- ABC
- US ABC commercial network, now part of Disney
- Abril
- press and broadcast conglomerate active in South America
and the EU
- Advance
and Newhouse - a dominant US magazine and newspaper
publisher
- AHL
- Australian cinema group
- Al-Jazeera
- Middle Eastern broadcaster
- Alma
- Baltic broadcasting and print conglomerate
- Amaury
- French publishing and events management group
- American
Media - Generoso Pope, National Enquirer
and the American Media group
- Annenberg
- the former US magazine, newspaper and broadcast group
- Anschutz
- US newspaper and entertainment venue group
- AOL
- America Online, subsequently merged with Time Warner
- APN
- Australasia's largest operator in regional newspapers,
radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising
- A-Pressen
- Norwegian media group
- Archant
- UK newspaper group
- Asahi
- Japanese print, property and broadcast group
- Asper
and CanWest Global - the Canada-based newspaper and
broadcasting group with major television and radio interests
in Australia and New Zealand
- Astors
- the former UK publishing dynasty
- Astral
Media - Canadian radio and pay-tv group
- Aust
Networks - the adventures of Lowy, Skase,
Holmes a Court and Bond
in commercial broadcasting in Australia
- Axel
Springer - European publishing and broadcasting
- Azteca
- Mexican commercial television and radio broadcaster
and audiovisual producer
- Bayard
- magazine and newspaper publisher
- BBC
- UK public broadcaster
- Beaverbrook
- a Murdoch precursor
- CTVglobemedia,
Bell Globemedia and BCE - Canadian newspapers, web portals
and television
- Belo
- US newspaper and television operator
- Berlusconi
- Italy's Citizen Kane, sans rosebud
- Bertelsmann
and Gruner & Jahr -
from bibles to one of the big three media conglomerates
- Black
- Hollinger group, Conrad Black and the Barclay brothers
- Black
Press - minor US newspaper publisher
- Block
- Toledo Blade and other Block family properties
- Bloomberg
- the US financial data services network
- Bollore
- French conglomerate
- Bonnier
- Scandinavian book, magazine, newspaper and broadcast
group
- Burda
- German printing, magazine and broadcasting group
- Cablevision
- US cable television and content group
- Capstar,
Chancellor and Hicks Muse Tate & Furst
- Carlton
- UK broadcaster, publisher and film producer
- CBC
- public broadcasting in Canada
- CBS
- the US media group that has been absorbed by Viacom
and Sony
- Christian
Science Monitor
- CHUM
- Canadian broadcasting network
- Cisneros
- Venezuela-based broadcast, online, retail and beverage
conglomerate
- Citadel
- US radio network
- Clear
Channel - arguably the world's largest radio broadcaster
(1,200+ stations), with a substantial Australian presence
and dwarfing US competitors such as Entercom and Citadel
- Cogeco
- Canadian broadcast and cable network
- Comcast
- US cable television and programming group
- Cox
- US print, broadcasting and telecommunications group
- Crowell-Collier
- former US publishing and broadcasting groups
- Cumulus
- US broadcasting
- Curtis
- US publishing
- DC
Thomson - Scottish newspaper group
- Disney
- US media conglomerate
- DMG,
Rothermere and Northcliffe
- Dow
Jones and the Wall Street Journal
- DuMont
Schauberg - German newspaper and book publisher
- Edipresse
- Swiss publishing
- Egmont
- Danish publishing
- Elsevier
- one of the big three of technical publishing
- EMAP
- Anglo-French broadcaster and newspaper/magazine publisher
- EMI
- Anglo-US music recording and publishing group
- Emmis
- minor US broadcaster and publisher
- Entercom
- US broadcaster
- Entravision
- US broadcaster
- Fairfax
and Syme
- Field
Communications and Kaiser
- Financial
Times and the Economist
- Fleet
Street - who was who before everyone moved to Wapping
- Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung and its precedecessor the Frankfurter
Zeitung
- Freedom
and Hoiles - US publishing
- Fujisankei
- Gannett
- publishing
- GateHouse
(formerly LGP) and Purcell - US newspaper groups
- GCap
Media - UK radio network formed through merger of
GWR Group and Capital Radio
- Globo
Media - Latin American conglomerate
- Granada
- UK group that is a predecessor of ITV plc
- Guardian,
CP Scott and the Observer
- Hachette,
Lagardere, Wendel Investissement, Editis and Prouvost
- Harte-Hanks
- US publishing
- Hearst
- US publishing and broadcast
- the
New York Herald-Tribune, the
IHT, James Gordon Bennett, John Hay Whitney and Whitelaw
Reid
- Hersant,
Dassault and Socpresse
- Holtzbrinck
- German and Anglo publishing
- IDG
- publishing
- Iliffe,
Camrose, Kemsley and Hulton
- Ingersoll,
PM and the Journal Register group
- ITV
plc - UK commercial television
- Johnston
- UK newspaper publisher
- Journal
Communications - US mini-conglomerate centred on
the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
- Kirch,
Saban, Formula 1 and EM.TV
- Wolters
Kluwer - publishing
- Knight-Ridder
- US newspaper group acquired and disassembled in 2006
- Landmark
- US newspaper publisher and broadcaster
- L'Espresso
- Italian publisher and broadcaster
- Le
Monde and Le Temps
- Libération
and L'Humanité
- Liberty
- US and EU cable and satellite television group. There
is a supplementary note on AT&T
- LIN
Broadcasting and LIN TV - US broadcasting groups
- Live
Nation - US-based live entertainment management
and venues group
- Loews
- conglomerate that has embraced cinema, tobacco, insurance,
pipelines, watches, hotels and broadcasting
- Macquarie
Media - Australian broadcast network formed through
takeover of RG Capital
- McClatchy
- US regional newspaper publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- publishing
- Maxwell
- crash, splash, no more Captain Bob
- MCS
- Singapore broadcast and print group
- Mecom
- European publisher and broadcaster
- Media
General - publishing and broadcast
- MediaNews
- Singleton & Scudder newspaper chain
- Meredith
- magazine and television chain
- Metromedia,
Kluge and DuMont
- Modern
Times Group (MTG) and the Metro group - broadcasting
and newspaper publishing chains
- Morris
Communications (inc Stauffer and Capper)
- Morris
Multimedia
- MSG
- a major music publisher
- Munsey
- former US magazine and newspaper publisher
- Murdoch
- News Corporation and other Murdoch holdings in film,
print and broadcast. There is a supplementary profile
on the former Herald & Weekly Times (H&WT)
group and INL
- Naspers
- South African print and broadcast conglomerate
- NBC
- News
Services - AP, UP, UPI, AFP and AAP
- NHK
- Japan's national broadcaster
- Nikkei
- newspapers, magazines, data services
- New
York Times - and the Sulzbergers
- Virgin
Media, ntl and Telewest - UK cable television and
broadband networks
- NZZ
- the Neue Züricher Zeitung group
- Ouest-France
- largest French newspaper publisher
-
Orkla - Norwegian brewing to
newspaper conglomerate
- Packer
- the Packer family and vehicles such as the Nine television
network, Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd and CPH.
There is a supplementary profile on Hugh Denison's Sun
and Associated Newspapers
groups
- Pathé,
Gaumont, Schlumberger and Seydoux
- Paxson
- US television network
- PBS
- public sector broadcasting in the US
- PCM
Uitgevers - leading Netherlands newspaper publisher
(five of the six national dailies)
- Pearson
- from sewers in Mexico to Penguin books and the Economist
- Perskor,
SAAN and other South African newspaper groups
- Polygram
- the music and film group churned through Seagram and
Vivendi
- Power
and Pargesa - the Desmarais financial services, investent
and media conglomerate
- Prime
- regional Australia television network with an arm
in New Zealand
- Primedia
- ailing US magazine and internet group
- Grupo
Prisa - Madrid-based conglomerate
- Pulitzer
and Lee - two US newspaper groups whose merger was announced
in 2005
- Pulliam
and CNI - former US newspaper publisher
- Quebecor
and Sun Media - printing, publishing and broadcast
- RCS
MediaGroup (Rizzoli Corriera della Serra)
- Rank
- from films to photocopiers, bingo parlours and the
Hard Rock Cafe
- Recoletos
- Spanish publishing group absorbed by RCS in 2007
- Reuters
- news and data services group absorbed by Thomson in
2007
- Ringier
- Swiss-based newspaper and magazine group
- RKO
and General Teleradio - the former film production,
broadcasting and cable television groups - and the Mutual
Network
- Rogers
and Maclean-Hunter - Canadian wireless, cable, broadcast
and publishing group
- Roularta
- EU publisher
- RTL
- broadcaster and film/video content producer operating
in Australia, EU and North America
- Rural
Press - regional and rural publisher (in Australia,
the US and New Zealand) absorbed by Fairfax. The profile
includes coverage of IPMG, the Hannan family and Harris
& Co
- Salem
- US broadcaster
- Sanoma
WSOY - publishing and broadcast
- SBS
and CME - European broadcasters
- Schibsted
- publishing and broadcast
- Scripps
- publishing and broadcast
- Seagram,
MCA and Universal
- Seattle
Times, the Blethens and Guy Gannett Communications
- Seven
television network, Skase, Stokes
- Shaw
and Corus
- Sinclair
- broadcast
- Sing
Tao - Chinese-language publishing
- Six
Flags - US themepark group
- SMG
- publishing and broadcast
- Softbank
- Japanese carriage & content conglomerate
- Sony
- hardware, insurance and software, including Columbia
Pictures, Columbia-Tristar Pictures, PlayStation, Columbia
Records and MGM
- Southern
Cross and Southern Star
- SPH
- Singapore broadcaster and publisher notable for the
Straits Times
-
Springer Science+Business Media - global science
and professional publisher
- Standard
and Slaight - Canadian broadcasting group
- Stephens
and Donrey - US media groups
- Taft
- broadcasting, production, theme parks
- Tamedia
- Swiss publisher
- Telefonica
- Spanish telephone giant with broadcast and video production
interests
- Telegraaf
Media Groep - Netherlands-based publisher of De
Telegraaf and other titles
- Telemedia
- former Canadian radio network and magazine publisher
- Televisa
- Mexican broadcast group
- Thomson
Reuters - continuing to move upmarket as a provider
of specialist print and online journals and information
services
- T&F
Informa - the Informa (IBC conferences) and Taylor
& Francis STM publishing conglomerate
- Time
Warner - books, music, theme parks, magazines, cable
and broadcast tv ...
- Torstar
- Canadian pulp fiction and newspaper group
- Transcontinental
- Canadian printing giant that's followed Quebecor into
newspapers and magazines
- Tribune
- radio, television, magazines and newspapers (including
the Chandler's LA Times and the McCormick's Chicago
Tribune)
- Trinity
Mirror - UK newspaper group that includes publications
from Maxwell's Mirror conglomerate
- TVNZ
& RNZ - New Zealand public-sector broadcasters
- Ullstein,
Mosse and Scherl - former German print groups
- United
Business Media - UK technical publishing (CMP) and market
research group
- Viacom
- Sumner Redstone's cable tv, music, cinemas, book,
film, theme park group that absorbed Westinghouse
- Village
Roadshow - global cinema group that controls the Austereo
radio network in Australia
- Vivendi,
and Polygram and other music,
films, publishing ...)
- VNU
- publishing and research
- WAN
- Western Australian Newspapers
- Warner
Music - the record and music publishing group unloaded
by Time Warner in 2003
- Washington
Post, Newsweek and the Grahams
- WAZ
- publishing
- Wegener
- publishing
- Westinghouse
and Group W - former broadcast
- WIN,
Gordon, Eva Presser & ENT - Australian broadcast
- Wiley
- US specialist publisher
- Yomiuri
- Japanese broadcast, property, finance and print conglomerate
As
points of reference we have included information about
two dominant image libraries -
and
about groups such as Loews, Les
Echos, Goldsmith, MacFadden,
Bolloré, Readers
Digest, Forbes, Bouygues,
Ziff-Davis, Dennis,
Eher, JC
Decaux, Goodson, Brush-Moore,
RCA and GE, Lamar,
Radio One and Adelphia.
advertising groups
Coverage of the major media groups is complemented
by profiles on advertising groups -
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