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During the 20th century, several media companies were founded. Within time some ceased operations, others took their places, and some merged with each others. The most influential eventually grew to become multinational.

Today, six companies are leading the American media industry, as well as the international media industry, including television: Comcast‚ The Walt Disney Company, Fox Corporation, Time Warner, Paramount Global and Sony Corporation. With the exception of Sony (which is based in Japan), all of them are US based, and along with Internet company Google Inc. (the parent company of YouTube), they form the top biggest international media corporations in the world.

Contents

Current US companies (2019)

The major media conglomerates

Conglomerate Television Broadcast
Network(s) 		Cable Channels Internet
on-demand
platforms
Production Distribution
Primary Secondary Animation News Mainstream Youth Premium News Sports Movie
Comcast Universal Television Universal Cable Productions,
Peacock Productions,
Wilshire Studios 		Universal Animation Studios NBC News NBCUniversal Syndication Studios NBC USA,
Syfy,
E!,
Bravo,
G4,
Oxygen,
Chiller,
Cloo,
TV One (50%),
Esquire (50%),
FearNet (33%) 		Sprout MSNBC,
CNBC,
The Weather Channel (33%)		 NBCSN,
Comcast SportsNet,
Golf Channel,
NHL Network,
Universal Sports (8%),
MLB Network (5.44%)		 Universal HD hulu (33%)
Peacock
Disney ABC Signature,
20th Television 		ABC Entertainment,
It's a Laugh Productions,
Lucasfilm Television,
Marvel Television,
Fox 21 Television Studios,
FX Productions 		Disney Television Animation,
Pixar Animation Studios,
Lucasfilm Animation,
Marvel Animation,
Fox Television Animation 		ABC News Disney-ABC Domestic Television ABC Freeform,
SOAPnet,
Lifetime (50%),
A&E (50%),
History (50%),
BIO (50%),
CI (50%),
FX,
FXX,
National Geographic (67%)		 Disney Channel,
Disney XD,
Disney Junior,
 Fusion (50%) ESPN (80%) FXM hulu (67%)
Disney+
Fox Fox News FOX,
MyNetworkTV 		Fox News Channel,
Fox Business 		Fox Sports 1,
Fox Sports 2,
Fox Soccer Plus,
Fox College Sports,
BTN 		Movies! (50%)
Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Television Studios Warner Horizon Television,
Alloy Entertainment,
Williams Street,
Telepictures,
Discovery Studios 		Warner Bros. Animation,
Cartoon Network Studios 		CNN Warner Bros. Television Distribution The CW (12.5%) TNT,
TBS,
truTV,
Discovery Channel,
TLC,
Animal Planet,
Investigation Discovery,
Science,
Planet Green,
Military Channel,
Discovery Fit & Health,
Velocity,
Discovery Family (60%),
OWN (50%),
3net (33%) 		Cartoon Network,
Boomerang 		HBO,
Cinemax 		CNN,
HLN 		NBA TV,
MLB Network (5.44%) 		TCM HBO Max
Discovery+
Paramount Global CBS Studios,
Paramount Television Studios,
MTV Productions 		Big Ticket Television,
Nickelodeon Productions 		Nickelodeon Animation Studios CBS News CBS Media Ventures CBS,
The CW (12.5%),
Network Ten 		POP (50%),
MTV,
Comedy Central,
TV Land,
CMT,
VH1,
Logo,
BET,
Paramount Network,
Palladia,
BET Her 		Nickelodeon,
TeenNick,
Nicktoons,
Nick Jr. 		Showtime,
The Movie Channel,
Flix,
Epix (33%) 		CBS Sports Network Paramount+,
Pluto TV,
BET+
Sony Sony Pictures Television,
Sony Pictures Television Studios 		 Embassy Row Adelaide Productions Sony Pictures Television GSN (58%),
FearNet (33%),
3net (33%) 		Sony Movie Channel Crackle

Film industry connections

The US film market is lead by six major film studios, tied to (and the historic roots of) six of the six media conglomerates listed above.

Together, these six studios, alongside sister studios, divisions and distribution arms, have a share of about 80% of the North American film industry. Additional "mini-major" studios that both produce and distribute films include Lionsgate Films (founded in 1962), Relativity Media (2004), The Weinstein Company (2005), CBS Films (2007), and Open Road Films (2011) being the most notable current minor operators.

Music industry connections

The US (and global) music industry is lead by three major operators: Universal Music Group (still owned by former NBCUniversal owner Vivendi, of France), Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group (a long-time asset of Warner Bros., sold to Access Industries in 2011).

21st Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation do include minor record labels: Fox Music, Walt Disney Records, and CBS Records, respectively. All of those labels are distributed by the major label groups.

Comic book industry connections

The American comic book industry is dominated by two companies: Marvel Comics, acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009, and DC Comics, a sister-company of Warner Bros. since 1967.

Marvel and DC each have a market share of about 33%, with major secondary publishers include Image Comics (Spawn, Witchblade, The Walking Dead etc.), IDW Publishing (comic book versions of 24, Angel, CSI, Doctor Who, Star Trek, The X-Files, etc.), Dark Horse Comics (Timecop and comic book versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avatar: The Last Airbender, etc.), Dynamite Entertainment (comic book versions of Battlestar Galactica‚ The Bionic Woman, Grimm, Stargate, Xena: Warrior Princess, etc.), and Boom! Studios (comic book versions of Eureka, Farscape, etc.).

Notable minor companies

Notable additional television production arms of minor film studios include The Weinstein Company Television and Relativity Television. Other prolific production companies that exist as subsidiaries of companies that primary produce feature films (although leaving the distribution to the major studios), include Amblin Television, MGM Television, DreamWorks Television, and Gaumont International Television.

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