Media MegaFirms

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Media Mega-Firms

• Who do they own, how much do they make, and what
  do they do with it?

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Top Five Players

• Time Warner 40 billion
• Comcast 27 billion
• Walt Disney 17 billion
• News Corp. 14 billion
• NBC Universal 13 billion

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Time Warner
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Connections

• Time Warner (1) owns part of NBC Universal (6)
• Time Warner owns part of CBS (7)
• NBC Universal owns part of Walt Disney (3)
• Newscorp (4) owns part of NBC Universal and
  DirecTV Group (5)
• Advance Publications (11) owns part of NBC
  Universal
• Gannett Co. (12) owns part of Tribune Co. (17)

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Media Mega-Firms