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defunct

     defunct groups

This site offers profiles of media groups that have ceased to operate or that have been acquired by competitors.

Those groups include -

• ABC - the US ABC commercial network, now part of Disney
• Generoso Pope - tabloids now part of e the American Media group
• Annenberg - the former US magazine, newspaper and broadcast group
• AOL - America Online, subsequently merged with Time Warner
• 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
• Beaverbrook - a Murdoch precursor
• Conrad Black and the Hollinger group
• Capstar and Chancellor, now part of Clear Channel
• Carlton - UK broadcaster, publisher and film producer
• CBS - the US media group that has been absorbed by Viacom and Sony
• Crowell-Collier - former US publishing and broadcasting groups
• Curtis - US publishing
• Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, now part of News Corp
• EMAP - Anglo-French broadcaster and newspaper/magazine publisher
• Syme, now part of Fairfax
• Field Communications and Kaisert
• Fleet Street - who was who before everyone moved to Wapping
• Granada - UK conglomerate that is a predecessor of ITV plc
• New York Herald-Tribune, the IHT, James Gordon Bennett, John Hay Whitney and Whitelaw Reid
• Herald & Weekly Times (H&WT) - now part of News Corp
• Hersant
• Camrose, Kemsley and Hulton
• Ingersoll
• Kirch
• Knight-Ridder - US newspaper group acquired and disassembled in 2006
• Maxwell - crash, splash, no more Captain Bob
• Metromedia, Kluge and DuMont
• Munsey - former US magazine and newspaper publisher
• Virgin Media, ntl and Telewest - UK cable television and broadband networks
• Orkla - Norwegian brewing to newspaper conglomerate
• Pathé, Gaumont, Schlumberger and Seydoux
• Polygram - the music and film group churned through Seagram and Vivendi
• Pulitzer - newspaper group acquired by Lee in 2005
• Pulliam and CNI - former US newspaper publisher
• Rank - from films to photocopiers, bingo parlours and the Hard Rock Cafe
• Recoletos - Spanish publishing group absorbed by RCS in 2007
• RKO and General Teleradio - the former film production, broadcasting and cable television groups - and the Mutual Network
• Rural Press - regional and rural publisher (in Australia, the US and New Zealand) absorbed by Fairfax
• Seagram, MCA and Universal
• Hugh Denison's Sun and Associated Newspapers groups
• Taft - broadcasting, production, theme parks
• Telemedia - former Canadian radio network and magazine publisher
• Ullstein, Mosse and Scherl - former German print groups
• Westinghouse and Group W - former broadcast
• Goldsmith
• MacFadden
• Ziff-Davis
• Eher
• Goodson
• Brush-Moore
• RCA
• Adelphia.

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