The Big 6

GE

General Electric  (GE) is a huge media giant, being one of the 'Big 6' it controls a severe amount the media across the world.

GE owns 80% of NBC Universal. NBC is one of the world leading entertainment companies, which markets and produces TV shows and advertisements seen across the world.

NBC is a marketing machine, owning most of the worlds highest viewed TV shows and advertisements, such as the tonight show with Jay Lenno, it also owns popular TV sitcoms such as Will & Grace and Frasier, this is the perfect marketing point for NBC as it has a lot of products to offer, which can be sold and advertised on their various outlets like huge corporation TV and News Stations.

 Notable Properties:

Comcast
NBC
Universal Pictures
Focus Features

News-Corporation

The news corporation own cable network programming the majority of this is in America, they also own FOX, SKY Deutschland and SKY Italia and English SKY. He also owns the daily telegraph, News Corporation also own a bunch of publishing companies thought the world such as Harper Collins in Australia to Zealand he also owns a variety of TV shows such as American idol and IGN entertainment. 

Keith RUPERT Murdoch is an Australian American Media Mogul, He became the managing director of Australia’s news limited, which he inherited from his father. He owns large sum of the industry, He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world’s second-largest media conglomerate. 

He acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalized US citizen in 1985. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.

Notable Properties:

Fox

Wall Street Journal

New York Post

Disney

The Walt Disney Company is a global company, and  together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media.

For more than 85 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built.      

   Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage 

plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under the following banners: Disney, including Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios; Disneynature; Marvel Studios; and Touchstone Pictures, the banner under which live-action films from DreamWorks Studios are distributed. The Disney Music Group encompasses the Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records labels, as well as Disney Music Publishing.

  

Disney Consumer Products is the business segment of The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates that extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging from apparel, toys, home décor and books and magazines to foods and beverages, stationery, electronics and fine art. This is accomplished through a franchise-based licensing organization focused on strategic brand priorities, including: Disney Classic Characters & Disney Baby; Disney Live Action Film; Disney Media Networks & Games, Disney & Pixar Animation Studios; Disney Princess & Disney Fairies; and Marvel. Other businesses involved in Disney's consumer products sales are Disney Publishing Worldwide, the world's largest publisher of children's books and magazines.

Notable Properties:

ABC

ESPN

Pixar

Maramax

Marvel Studios

Viacom 

Viacom is short for Video & Audio Communication, is a another big part of the Big 6. The main sectors that Viacom work in are Television, radio, publishing, movies, and interactive media. Viacom is the forth biggest part of the Big 

6 and does reach all over the world, but mainly America and Europe.

Notable Properties:

MTV

Nick JR

BET

CMT

Patamount Pictures

Time Warner 

Time Warner operate in television, film and publishing, they produce programmes for both children and adults it is also the world’s second largest conglomerate, second to Disney. In 2000 AOL purchased the Time Warner Company $164 billion AOL own a capitalisation of 55% this means the Time Warner shareholders now own a stake hold of 45%.

The NFL Network (a subsidiary of Time Warner) is airing 13 primetime regular season games this year, which is up from eight games in previous years.

The long-awaited announcement comes as Time Warner Cable is set to debut its first regional sports channels in the Los Angeles area. It spent about $2 billion to outbid Fox Sports for the local rights to air Los Angeles Lakers basketball games and will launch an English-language network and a Spanish-language network on Oct 1.

Time Warner have an estimated net worth of $41-$46 billion

Notable Properties:

CNN 

HBO

Time

Warner Brothers

CBS

CBS stands for Columbia broadcasting system.

The Chairman of CBS is Sumner M. Redstone.

CBS are a large company in one of the 6 big companies in media.

CBS is stationed in the US. It is the second largest in TV broadcast, behind the BBC.

CBS own companies such as, Columbia Records, Publishing companies, Musical instrument division, Film Production, Home Video (MGM/CBS), Gabriel Toys(video game market), Viacom(broadcasting), CBS radio.

CBS is broadcasted to internationally via CBS studios international formally CBS Paramount international television.

CBS bought paramount for $37 billion.

CBS broadcasts in, USA, Europe, Africa, middle east, UK, Ireland,  Australia, New Zealand and Italy. 

Notable Properties:

Showtime

Smithsonian Channel

NFL.com

Jeopardy

60 Minutes