A&E, History Channel, and Biography
Channel (all 25% /37.5% Disney and
37.5% Hearst); Snap TV (80%); National
Geographic Channel (25% w/ News Corp
50% and National Geographic Society
25%); American Movie Classics, Bravo,
Romance Classics, and Independent Film
Channel (all 25% w/29% ATT and 46%
CABLE VISION); Much Music (12.5%
w/23% Cablevision and 14.5% ATT and
50% Canadian media firm CHUM
LTD);Regional sports channels with News
Corporation and Cablevision (through
regional programming partners);
Who Owns The Network News
The Project on Media Ownership
34 Stuyvesant Street • Suite 505 • New York, NY • 10003 • www.promo.org
GENERAL ELECTRIC
AOL/
TIME WARNER
NEWS CORPORATION
THE WALT DISNEY
COMPANY
VIACOM INC
2000 revenues: $111.6 billion
SPORTS
(all owned 25% w/29% AT&T and 46% CABLEVISION)
Madison Square Garden Arena and Theater;
Management and operation of Hartford Civic
Center; New York Knicks, New York Rangers,
New York Liberty, New England Seawolves,
New England Seawolves, Hartford Wolfpack
MOVIE THEATRES
Clearview Cinema Group (owned 25% w/29%
ATT and 46% CABLE VISION)
WEB
NBC Internet Inc.
(47.3% w/38.8% Xoom.com and 13.8% CNET
Inc.) includes Snap, NBC.com, NBC-IN.com ,
VideoSeeker, CNBC.com (10%)
Stakes in other sites include:
Salon.com (10%);Launch Media (11% w/Sony
and others) provides downloadable music;
iVillage, Inc. (w/AOL/TW, AT&T, Tenet Healthcare
Corp.) site for women; Autobytel.com Inc. (9.5%),
iXL Enterprises, Inc. (9.4%); Interactive Pictures
Corporation (5.75% w/Motorola, AT&T, and Lee
Martin) interactive photography technology; GE
Cisco Industrial Networks (W/Cisco Systems)
software, hardware and datasystems design; Talk
City, Inc. (joint venture) www.talkcity.com;
Telescan (13.9%) investment analysis tools, stock
market data; Intertainer Inc. (w/Comcast, Intel,
Microsoft) Pay-per-view TV; SelfCare.com (about
80% with ValueVision) online women's health
magazine; American POP! (25% w/75%
Cablevision), Telocity (About 80% w/Value
Vision), Loudeye Technologies, Inc. (w/Microsoft,
AOL/ TW and Viacom) digital media
management; Ralph Lauren Media (50%
W/POLO RALPH LAUREN MEDIA) sales of
Ralph Lauren products via Internet, TV and print;
Other new media:
CNBC-Dow Jones Business Video Service, NBC
Desktop Video, NBC Data Network, NBC Digital
Publishing, NBC Interactive Neighbothood, and
NBC Supernet
TV
APPLIANCES
GE, Hotpoint, Monogram, Profile and other
brand name appliances; Light bulbs and
lighting fixtures
AIRCRAFT ENGINES
For military and commercial planes
($1.6 billion from aircraft engine sales
to US military in 1999)
FINANCING & INSURANCE
Bringing in almost half
of GE’s annual revenues.
Messaging services,
internet & intranet
services
Freight and
passenger trains
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
MR and CT scanners, x-ray, nuclear imaging
and ultrasound machines
POWER SYSTEMS
Equipment for refineries, ammonia plants
and nuclear reactors
PLASTICS
For cars, computers,
compact disks, appliances
and construction materials
NBC
CNBC
MSNBC
(50% W/ 50%
Microsoft)
INTERNATIONAL TV HOLDINGS
CNBC and A&E
distributed in other countries
National GeographicWorldwide
(25% with 25% National
GeographicTV
and 50% News Corp)
in 54 foreign countries
Bravo International (25% with
Cablevision)
CABLE
TV STATIONS
TV PRODUCTION
NBC NEWS
The Today Show
Meet the Press
Weekend Today
NBC Nightly News
Dateline NBC
Janus Capital Corporation owns 6%
2000 revenues: $36.2 billion
MOVIES
Warner Bros. (75% w/25% AT&T), New Line
Cinema, Fine Line Features; Castle Rock
Entertainment; Warner Bros. joint ventures
include Bel-Air Entertainment (w/Canal+),
Village Roadshow Pictures, Gaylord
Entertainment;and some HBO divisions;
distribution arrangements with Alcon
Entertainment, Morgan Creek Productions,
Franchise Entertainment; library of MGM, RKO
and pre-1950 Warner Bros. films
Home Video: Warner Home Video (75% w/25%
AT&T); TiVo (w/Philips and others)
Movie Theaters: UCI (50% w/50% Viacom); WF
Cinema Holdings, L.P. (50% w/ 50% Viacom)
negotiating to buy WestStar theatres; Warner
Bros. International Theaters
MAGAZINES
63 including the 3 best-selling: Time, Life and
People; MAD Magazine, DC Comics (87.5%
w/12.5% AT&T); American Express Publishing
Corp.(ownership stake);
PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION
New Line Television
Warner Bros.Television
(75% w/ 25% MediaOne/AT&T)
Warner Bros.Television Animation
(75% w/ 25% MediaOne/AT&T)
Telepictures Productions
(75% w/ 25% MediaOne/AT&T)
Castle Rock Television
HBO Independent Productions
(75% w/ 25% MediaOne/AT&T)
SATELLITE TV
Primestar (with TCI/AT&T, Advance
Publications, MediaOne/AT&T,
Comcast and Cox)
Sale pending to General Motors
FRANCHISES
12.9 million subscribers
includes systems owned
Time Warner and Advance
Publications, Time Warner alone
and TimeWarner 75% with 25%
MediaOne/ATT
TV
RETAIL
WB
(67% w/22.25% Tribune Co.
and 11% WB officers );
INTERNATIONAL
CHANNELS:
Owns outright or
equity stakes in: TBS and
TNN in about 120 countries;
international versions of
CNN, Cartoon Network,
HBO and Cinemax;
music video channels in
Germany, Hungary, Asia;
payTV services in Hungary,
Czech Republic, Slovak
Republic, Poland, Romania;
Star Channel
CNN
CNN Headline News
CNN/Sports Illustrated
CNN
CNNfn
CABLE
PROVIDERS:
12.8 million customers in wholly-owned and
partially-owned systems (most with AT&T and
some also with Advance-New house);stakes in
some international telephony and cable operations
CHANNELS:
HBO, Cinemax, (75% w/25% AT&T), Comedy
Central (37.5% w/50% Viacom and 12.5% AT&T),
Court TV (50% w/50% ATT), TBS, TNT, Cartoon
Network (Europe, Latin America, and Asia/Pacific),
Turner Classic Movies, CNN International, CNN en
Espanol, and CNN/Sports Illustrated; TVKO (75%
w/25% AT&T);Music Choice and Music Choice
Europe(w/Sony, EMI, General Instrument)
PRODUCTION/PROGRAMMING:
Warner Bros. Television, Telepictures Productions,
Castle Rock Television;Witt Thomas Productions,
Warner Bros. Television Animation (Hanna Barbera
and Looney Toons); also, some HBO divisions,
Warner Library of 6,500 feature films, 32,000
television titles and 13,500 cartoons; stake in
Oxygen Media
BOOKS
Warner Books (imprints include: Warner
Vision, The Mysterious Press, Warner Aspect
and Warner Treasures), Little, Brown and Co.
( imprints include:Bulfinch Press and Back
Bay Books), Time-Life Books, Oxmoor
House, Leisure Arts and Sunset Books
Book Clubs: Book-of-the-Month Club,
Paperback Book Club, Children’s Book-of -
the-Month-Club, History Book Club and
Money Book Club
WEB
SPORTS
Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks,
Atlanta Thrashers, Goodwill
Games;Philips Arena
THEME PARKS
Sea World and Movie World
in Austrailia (w/Village
Roadshow Ltd., 78%)
OTHER
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (75% w/25% AT&T)
licenses include rights to DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera
characters and Harry Potter; Turner Learning
(instructional programs for classrooms with programming
from CNN, TNT, TCM, and Cartoon Network)
TELEPHONY
Time Warner Telecom (37%)
WEB ACCESS
Road Runner
(37% w/34% TCI/AT&T,
10% Microsoft, 10% Compaq,
9% Advance Publications)
Cable Modems
Murdoch family controls 30%
AT&T owns 8%
2000 Revenues: $14 billion
MOVIES
Twentieth Century Fox, Fox
Searchlight, Fox Animation Studios,
Twentieth Century Fox International
(all 83%), Fox Studios Australia
(w/Lend Lease Corporation);
distribution agreements w/
Intertainment and MGM
MAGAZINES
TV Guide, (TV Guide Ultimate Cable and
Celebrity Dish) The Weekly Standard;
distribution unit handles also publications
from Bauer Publishing L.P., Reader's
Digest, PRIMEDIA, Weider Publishing,
Consumer Union, Essence
Communications, Emmis Corporation,
McGraw-Hill, The World Almanac (all 44%
w/ 44% AT&T)
WEB
News, sports, entertainment and game sites
related to News Corp properties; stakes in other
sites including ChinaByte.com, broadsystem.com;
www.tvguide.com; (44% w/ 44% AT&T) online
program listings, movie database, soap opera
news & updates, etc.
MARKETING
News Corp. controls about half the US coupon
business through stakes in in-store and printed
coupon businesses;
newspaper inserts in 630 U.S. and 140 Canadian
Sunday newspapers;
telemarketing
OTHER
Twentieth Century Fox Licensing
TV
PRODUCTION
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Twentieth Television; Fox Television
Studios; Greenblatt/Janollari Studios;
Natural History Limited; Fox Family
Worldwide, Inc. (50% w/Saban)
Regency Television (50% w/Monarchy
Entertprises); Fox Television Library
INTERNATIONAL TV
Channels in Europe:
Vox (49.9%),TM3 (66%),
Stream (35%)
In Latin America: Canal Fox,
Cinecanal (20.2 %),
Telecine (12.5%)
FOX Sports Americas (50%)
In Asia:Channel V (with others)
STAR News;Zee India TV
and Zee TV (50%);
STAR Sports (50%)
Phoenix Chinese Channel (45%)
Phoenix Movies (45%)
Viva Cinema (50%)
• • •
various satellite joint ventures
including STAR in Asia and
FOXTEL in Australia
CABLE & SATELLITE TV
DirecTV (currnet merger talks would give
30% stake w/GM adn 10% combined for
Microsoft and AT&T); international stakes
include holding sin FOXTEL (50% w/Telstra
Corp., and Publishing and Braodcasting Ltd.);
BskyB (40% w/25% Vivendi) in the UK;
JskyB in Japan, and Star TV in India
VENUES
Madison Square Garden
(40% with Cablevision 45%, NBC/GE 15%)
Management of Radio City Music Hall
and the Rockettes
(40% with Cablevision 45%, NBC/GE 15%)
Staples Center (40%)
scheduled to be the home of the Los Angeles
Kings, Lakers and the Clippers
beginning in October 1999
Dodger Stadium
STATIONS
WNYW and WWOR, New York; KTTV and KCOP, LA; WFLD,
Chicago; WTXF, Philadelphia; WFXT, Boston; KDFW and
KDFI, Dallas; WTTG, Washington DC, WJBK, Detroit; WAGA,
Atlanta; KRIV, Houston; WTVT, Tampa; WJW, Cleveland;
KSAZ, Phoenix; KDVR, Denver; KTVI, St. Louis; WDAF,
Kansas City; WITI, Milwaukee; KSTU, Salt Lake City; WBRC,
Birmingham; WHBQ, Memphis; WGHP, Greensboro; KTBC,
Austin; KPTV, Portland; KBHK (58%), San Francisco; KMSP
(58%) Minneapolis; KUTP (58%) Phoenix; WUTB (58%),
Baltimore; WRBW (58%) Orlando; KMOL (58%) San Antonio
and KTVX (being sold), Salt Lake City; Satellite
Primestar and DirecTV-- (Current merger talks would give 30%
stake w/GM and 10% combined for Microsoft and AT&T);
FOX
203 affiliated stations
Fox News
TV NETWORKS
FOX, FX, Fox Family Channel, FXM
(50% w/AT&T), Fox Sports Net (stakes
of 40-50% in 21 regional sports
channels w/GE, Cablevision and ATT
through it's 38% stake in Cablevision),
National Geographic Channel (67% w/
25% GE and National Geographic
Society), MSG (20% w/40% AT&T and
40% Cablevision); TV Guide Channel,
TV Guide Sneak Prevue (44% w/ 44%
AT&T) text display of pay-per view
schedules; generates 65% of all PPV
orders; International holdings include
stakes in Zee Network (50%), ESPN
Star (with AOL/TW), Channel V (50%
with AOL/TW, EMI, SONY, and
BERTELSMANN) and National
Geographic Channel (50% w/others);
FOX Sports International (w/ATT)
SPORTS
Los Angeles Dodgers; Los Angeles Kings and their
new arena, Staples Center (40% with AT&T); option
to buy 10% of Los Angeles Lakers; Stakes in NY
Knicks and Rangers; National Rugby League (50%)
NEWSPAPERS
NY Post; In UK: the Sun, the Times, News of the
World; The Australian, The Telegraph, The Herald
Sun, and others in Australia, New Zealand and the
South Pacific
BOOKS
News America imprints include HarperCollins,
Regan Books, William Morrow and Avon;
Zondervan, largest commercial Bible imprint
GE Americom operates 13
communications satellites
SATELLITES
health, accident and long-term care insurance, and
investment and retirement plans, plus specialty
insurance, principally excess workers' compensation,
medical malpractice, errors and omissions coverage
for insurance agents, libel and allied torts
INSURANCE
BANKING AND FINANCE
Mortgages, home equity and commercial
real estate loans; loans to airlines and
aircraft operators, car dealers,
manufacturers, financing companies and
their customers in the US, the UK, Ireland,
Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and
Denmark; handles credit card operations for
retailers, including application processing,
sales authorization, customer services and
collection services in the US, UK, Austria,
France, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland,
the Czech Republic, Japan, Thailand, Hong
Kong, China, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia
and India; finances acquisitions and
business expansion; owns stock in
companies in retail, financial services,
telecommunications, healthcare, food and
beverage, cable and broadcasting industries
TRANSPORTATION
owns/manages almost 900 aircraft, leases about 1 million cars and
trucks, over 350,000 dry freight, refrigerated and double vans,
about another 98,000 tractors, trucks and trailers through Penske
Leasing (limited partnership), specialized trailers and marine
shipping containers (with Sea Containers Ltd) and 190,000 railcars
RETAIL
Montgomery Ward
NBC Productions, Radio City
Television, Bravo Original
Programming, IFC Productions,
Next Wave Films (all owned
25% w/29% ATT and 46%
CABLE VISION)
America Online (26 million customers), CompuServe (3 million
customers), Netscape (software and portal), digitalcity.com,
moviefone.com, iamaze.com, quack.com, and mapquest.com;
ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (messaging services); Stakes in:
Spinner.com, Winamp and SHOUTcast (music sites),
Earthnoise.com, Kinkos.com; joint partnerships in Europe (50%
w/Bertelsmann; sale pending); in Australia (50% w/ AAPT
Limited), in Latin America (w/ Cisneros Group and Banco Itau)
RoadRunner (being restructured to give AOL/TW majority stake
in partnership w/ AT&T and Advance-Newhouse) Cable modems
- 1 million customers
American Recordings, Asylum Atlantic, Atlantic
Classics, Atlantic Jazz, Atlantic Nashville, Atlantic
Theater, Big Beat, Breaking, Coalition, Curb, East
West, Elektra, Giant, Igloo, Lava, Mesa/Bluemoon,
Maverick (w/Madonna), Modern, Nonsuch, Qwest,
143 (joint venture), Reprise, Reprise Nashville,
Revolution, Sire, Strickly Rhythm (joint venture),
Teldec, Warner Nashville, Warner Alliance, Warner
Resound, Warner Sunset, Other intrests include:
Warner/Chappell Music (publishing), WEA Inc.(sales,
distribution and manufacturing), Ivy Hill Corp.
(printing and packaging), Joint Ventures music
Sound Exchange (w/Sony), and Heartland Music
(50%); majority interest in Alternative
Distribution Alliance ("independent distribution
company"); Quincy Jones Entertainment
Co. (37.5% w/ 12.5% AT&T and 50%
Quincy Jones) Columbia House (50%
w/50% Sony); Warner Bros.
publications (publishes printed music)
VIDEO
Fox Home Entertainment (83%)
MUSIC
Festival, Rawkus and Mushroom labels
Strong Capital Management 9%
Waddell & Reed Asset Management Co. 9%
Walt Disney Company
2000 Revenues: $25.4 billion
TV
MOVIES
Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone
Pictures, Hollywood Pictures,
Miramax Film Corp., Dimension,
Buena Vista International
(international distribution arm);
HOME VIDEO Distributed 3 of the
10 top selling videos, including
the top 2 titles, and 3 of the 10
top rentals in 2000
PLAYS
Broadway productions
of The Lion King and Beauty and
the Beast
BOOKS
Hyperion, Miramax Books,
Disney Children's Book
Group, ESPN Books, ABC
Daytime Press
TV STATIONS
Reaches 24% of U.S. households
WABC New York
KABC Los Angeles
WLS Chicago
WPVI Philadelphia
KGO San Francisco
KTRK Houston
WTVD Raleigh/Durham
KFSN Fresno, CA
WJRT Flint, MI
WTVG Toledo,OH
MUSIC
Walt Disney, Hollywood,
Mammoth, and Lyric Street
Records
OTHER
Produces videocassettes and film
strips for schools; licenses the
manufacture and sale of posters
and teaching aids; Sells cell art
from Disney animated films Sells
merchandise through the Disney
Catalog; Disney Direct Marketing;
GO Credit Card (w/ MBNA)
INTERNATIONAL TV
The Disney Channel International
Equity stakes in international
versions of ESPN and HBO;
NetStar, The Sports Network, Les
Reseau des Sports
LICENSING
Licenses characters for clothes,
toys, gifts, home furnishing and
housewares, stationery, sporting
goods, books and magazines
RADIO
50 Stations
ABC Radio Network; Radio
Disney; ESPN Radio
(80% w/20% Hearst)
PRODUCTION &
DISTRIBUTION
ABC Entertainment Television
Group (includes Buena Vista,
Touchstone, Walt Disney, Imagine
Television and ABC
Entertainment); ABC Productions
ABC
ABC TV Network 224 affiliates
ABC News
World New Tonight
Good Morning America
Nightline
This Week
Primetime
NETWORKS
ABC; Disney Channel; Toon Disney; Soap Net; ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN
Classic, ESPNEWS and ESPN Regional Television (all 80% w/20%
Hearst); A&E, History Channel and Biography Channel (all 37.5% w/
37.5% Hearst and 25% GE); Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network (50%
w/50% Hearst); E! Entertainment Television and Style (40% Disney, 40%
Comcast, 20% AT&T);
INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS: Disney (in Taiwan, the U.K., Australia,
Malaysia, France, the Middle East, Spain, Italy, Germany, Latin America;
other planned for Brazil, Scandinavia and Central Europe); programs,
owns or has equity interests in 19 ESPN channels in more than 140
countries; equity stakes in: HBO Ole , HBO Brasil ,TVA (Brazilian
programmer and distribution company); Multicanal channels in Spain
(50% w/50% ATT);
STATIONS: WABC, New York; KABC, Los Angeles; WLS, Chicago;
WPVI, Philadelphia ; KGO, San Francisco; KTRK, Houston; WTVD,
Raleigh/Durham; KFSN, Fresno, CA; WJRT, Flint,MI; WTVG, Toledo, OH
RETAIL
741 Stores
MAGAZINES
Discover, Family Fun, Disney
Adventures, ESPN The Magazine
(80% Disney w/ 20% Hearst), Talk
(50% w/ 50% Hearst)
WEB
ABC.com, ABCNews.com, Oscar.com (with the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Mr. Showbiz, Disney.com,
ESPN.com, NFL.com, NBA.com, Toysmart.com (61%):
education toy retailer; Soccernet.com; SportsTicker, supplier of
real- time sports news and scores
RESORTS
Walt Disney World,
Disney Cruise Line
Disney Vacation Club
(resorts in Key West,
Vero Beach, FL, and
Hilton Head),
Disneyland, Disney
MGM Studios, Tokyo
Disney (royalties on
revenues), Disneyland
Paris (39%), Hong
Kong Disneyland
(43% w/57% Hong
Kong government)
(planned for 2005),
Spruce Goose and
Queen Mary
OTHER THEMED
ENTERTAINMENT
ESPN Zone: (80% with Hearst)
sports-themed restaurants;
DisneyQuest: virtual, interactive
adventure complex; WDW Resort,
Chicago, Philadelphia
TOWNS
Developed Celebration, FL, a
4,900-acre town
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Theatrical productions of Beauty
and the Beast, the Lion King, The
Hunchback of Notre Dame and
Aida; New Amsterdam Theatre on
Broadway
PROFESSIONAL
SPORTS
Mighty Ducks
and the Anaheim Angels
National Amusements Inc. (68%)
Walt Disney Company
2000 Revenues: $25.4 billion
MOVIES
Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies
(Snow Day), MTV Films (The Original
Kings of Comedy) BET and Arabesque
Films
Distribution venues include UIP (33%
w/MGM and 33% Vivendi); HOME
VIDEO: Blockbuster (82%); Paramount
Home Entertainment, Paramount Home
Entertainment, Int'l.; TiVo (w/GE and
others) MOVIE THEATERS: About 1,800
movie screens in the U.S., Canada,
Europe, Asia and South America through
Famous Players, UCI (50% w/50%
AOL/TW); WF Cinema Holdings, L.P.
(50% interest w/ 50% AOL TW)
negotiating to buy WestStar theatres.
BOOKS
Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books,
Scribner and The Free Press;
divisions in the UK and Australia;
Arabesque Books
MUSIC PUBLISHING
Famous Music holds copyright to
more than 100,000 musical works
(songs, scores, cues)
BANKING
BET Financial Services
WEB
MTVi (90% w/10% AT&T) includes MTV.com, VH1.com,
Country.com, Imagine Radio and SonicNet.com,
Nickelodeon Online includes Nick.com, NickJR.com,
TVLand.com, Nick-at-Nite.com, Gas.Nick.com
Teachers.Nick.com, and Red Rocket (w/AT&T); Stakes
also in iWon, Inc., Sportsline.com, Inc.,
MarketWatch.com, hollywood.com, storerunner.com,
Thirdage.com, Webvan, Switchboard Incorporated and
Medicalogic/Medscape, Inc.; Office.com, Content
Commerce, L.P., RX.com, Inc. and Wrenchead.com, Inc.,
MusicNewswire MovieTickets.com, Jobs.com, Beatnick,
Inc.; Web design: Nvolve (90% w/10% AT&T) and
Infoworks; Loudeye Technologies (digital media
management) (Venture Capital Journal , May 1, 2000);
MTV and Rioport.com Inc. will sell downloadable music
over MTV's Web sites
THEME PARKS
Paramount Parks - 5 theme
parks/attractions in the U.S. and Canada
Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina;
Great America in Santa Clara,
California; Kings Dominion near
Richmond, Virginia; Kings Island near
Cincinnati, Ohio; Wonderful near Toronto,
Ontario; and Star Trek: The Experience at
the Las Vegas Hilton
BILLBOARDS
Infinity Outdoor and TDI in US;
Giraudy SA (73%) in France and
SMA S.p.A, in Italy.
RADIO
INFINITY 184 radio stations; CBS
Radio Network; Radio
programming; Westwood One
(18%) and Sportsline Radio (20%
w/Reuters and AOL/TW);
Technology: iBiquity Digital
Corporation (73% w/Lucent
Technologies)
MAGAZINES
BET Weekend (w/New York Daily
News) and Emerge Magazine,
both monthly magazines targeted
toward African Americans; Heart
& Soul Magazine, health & beauty
targeted toward Black women;
Nickelodeon Magazine
LICENSING
Viacom Consumer Products;
Nickelodeon Consumer Products;
Hamilton Projects -- licenses
Spelling properties and third-party
clients; also represents third-party
clients, including Comedy
Central's South Park, the U.S.
Postal Service, Jeep, Red Dog
Beer, Campbell's Soup
LIVE VENUE
Tres Jazz (w/Park Place Entertainment) jazz restaurant in
the Paris Las Vegas Casino and Resort; BET
SoundStage, theme-based restaurants in Largo, MD, and
Memphis, TN; BET SoundStage Club, dance club at
Disney World; World Wrestling Federation Entertainment
(3% w/3% GE and others); House of Blues Entertainment
Inc. (w/that company); Nickelodeon Recreation (traveling
live shows and other attractions including Moby Nick,
multimedia lab in Australia)
OTHER
BET Design Studio (w/G-III
Apparel Group, Ltd.) produces
and distributes Exsto XXIV VII
clothing and accessories
TV
NETWORKS
CBS, UPN, MTV, MTV2, VH1, Showtime,
Showtime Beyond, Showtime Extreme,
Showtime Next, Showtime Women,
Showtime Family Zone, Nickelodeon, Noggin
(50% w/ and Sesame Workshop),
Nickelodeon GAS, TV Land, Comedy Central
(50% w/37.5% AOL/TW and 12.5% AT&T),
TNN, CMT, The Movie Channel, Sundance
Channel (50% w/Vivendi and Robert
Redford), FLIX, BET and BET on Jazz.
Internationally, channels owned in whole or
in part throughout Europe, and in India,
Africa, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines,
Turkey, Bangladesh, Nepal and Malta, Latin
America, the Caribbean, Brazil, Taiwan,
Australia, Russia, parts of China, Brunei,
Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong,
South Korea, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan:
STATIONS: WCBS, New York; KCBS, Los
Angeles, CA; WBBM, Chicago; KYW and
WPSG in Philadelphia; KPIX, San Francisco;
WBZ and WSBK, Boston; KTVT and KTXA,
Dallas; WDCA, Washington, DC; WKBD, and
WWJ, Detroit; WUPA, Atlanta, KTXH,
Houston; KSTW, Seattle; WCCO,
Minneapolis; KCCO, Alexandria, MN; KCCW,
Walker, MN; WTOG, Tampa-St. Petersburg;
Sarasota, FL; WFOR, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale;
WBFS, Miami; KCNC, Denver; KMAX,
Sacramento; KDKA and WNPA, Pittsburgh;
WJZ, Baltimore; WNDY, Indianapolis;
WWHO, Columbus, OH; KUTV, Salt Lake
City; KUSG-TV, St. George, UT; WGNT,
Norfolk; WUPL, New Orleans; KAUT,
Oklahoma City; KEYE, Austin; KSCC,
Wichita; WFRV, Green Bay-Appleton, WI;
WJMN, Escanaba, MI; WHDF-TV, Huntsville,
AL; Operates WTVX, West Palm Beach;
WLWC, Providence, RI
PRODUCTION and
SYNDICATION
CBS Enterprises (includes King World and CBS Broadcast
International), Paramount Television, Spelling Television, Big
Ticket Television, Viacom Productions, Nickelodeon Studios,
MTV Productions, Nicktoons Animation Studio
CBS NEWS
CBS Evening News
CBS News Sunday Morning
60 Minutes
48 Hours
60 Minutes II
The Early Show
Saturday Early Show
Face the Nation
CBS Morning News
Up to the Minute
Warner Bros, Studio Stores
(75% w/25% AT&T)
Most will close in 2001
MUSIC
LIVE VENUES
World Wrestling Federation (3% w/3% Viacom)
WVTM Birmingham, AL
KNBC Los Angeles, CA
KNSD, San Diego, CA
WVIT, Hartford, CT
WTVS, Miami, FL
WMAQ, Chicago, IL
WCMH, Columbus, OH
WNBC, New York, NY
WNCN, Raleigh-Durham,
NC
WCAU, Philadelphia, PA
WJAR, Providence, RI
KXAS, Dallas, TX
WRC, Washington, D.C.
Paxson Communications
Corporation (32% with the
right acquire 49% w/Lowell
Paxson) 73 TV stations and
PAX TV, a national
programming network
Twentieth Century Fox Television and Fox Television Studios (83%), Fox Television
Studios Regency Television (w/New Regency Enterprises), TV Guide Television
Productions (44% w/ 44% AT&T); XYZ Entertainment Pty. Ltd. cable television
programming in the Asia-Pacific region (50% ATT w/ 50% Foxtel [partnership between
News Corp., Telstra Corp., and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd.]); Main Event Television
(33.3% ATT w/ 33.3% each Optus and Foxtel [News Corp., Telstra Corp., and Publishing
and Broadcasting Ltd.]) produces Main Event and adults only PPV channels in Australia
TV PRODUCTION