Who Owns the Media? Here's Who

[JSJ]

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)
Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.

TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign)
America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner–the largest merger in corporate history.
Television Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.

NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*


http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/47530.php

In each of these, the holdings are more extensive than space and forum guidelines allow- these are the media businesses each owns, however, and important as well, the amounts each have given to the Boosh campaign. -SJ

[fishface]

1. Sweet...

Thanks for the info.. I know a wingnut that needs educating!

[JSJ]

4. you are most welcome, fishface...

...and I think we all know some wingnuts that need educating. Now, if only they could actually be educated.

[UdoKier]

2. When discussing GE, never forget to mention they are bomb-makers.

HUGE defense contractor, therefore there is a conflict of interest every time an NBC station airs a story on war or defense spending, etc. It is in GE's financial interest that there be more wars to deplete our weaponry so that they can supply MORE.

[JSJ]

3. NBC=NuclearBombCompany

[dbt]

5. Kick for the Morning Crew!

FIVE entities effectively control ALL the Media in Murka. FIVE entities who support bu$h. And all we can hear is "Librul Media."

Kill your TV before it kills you.

:argh:
dbt

[dbt]

6. dupe

[Karenina]

7. Worth repeating

Kill your TV before it KILLS YOU!

[buycitgo]

8. this is just the tip of the iceberg

you;ll find more than you ever wanted to know here

http://www.robertmcchesney.com/

he's written several books on this, including Rich Media, Poor Democracy, which is the one to start with

he also has a radio show every sunday with most excellent guests, ranging from Amy Goodman to John Nichols to Janeane G, to Katrina vdH

well worth a look

from his articles page

The Nader Campaign and the Future of US Left Electoral Politics
The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 9 (February 2001), pp. 1-22.

Journalism, Democracy, ... and Class Struggle
Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 6 (November 2000), pp. 1-15. Also available in Norwegian here.

Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections
The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 5 (October 2000), pp. 1-13.

Socialism: A Time to Retreat?
The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 4 (September 2000), pp. 1-7.

Introduction: Toward a New Internationalism
The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July-August 2000), pp. 1-11.

Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting
Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, 1999, pp. 25-47.

Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism
Monthly Review, Vol. 50, No. 11 (April 1999), pp. 40-47.

Media Politics and the U.S. Left
Monthly Review, Vol. 50, No. 9 (February 1999), pp. 32-41.

The Political Economy of Global Media
Media and Development, Vol. 45, No. 4, 1998, pp. 3-8.

Making Media Democratic
Boston Review, Vol. 23, No. 3-4 (Summer 1998): pp. 4-10, 20.

The Internet and U.S. Communication Policy-making in Historical and Critical Perspective
Journal of Communication, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Winter 1996): pp. 98-124.

The Political Economy of the Mass Media: An Interview with Edward S. Herman
Monthly Review, Vol. 40, No. 8, January 1989. (also here).

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. i think viacom owns comedy central now

i remember jon stewart saying to aol on his show "so long assholes".