CNN International, CNN-SI, CNNfn, Headline News, etc.
TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Turner Movies
HBO, Cinemax, CourtTV
Warner Bros Cinema
New Line Cinema
Castle Rock Entertainment
America Online
Compuserve
Netscape
ICQ
31 Magazines: Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Business 2.0, Money, Southern Living, AsiaWeek, DC Comics, Mad Magazine, etc.
Time-Life Books (world's 2nd largest book publishing business)
Warner Music Group, including 22 labels: Elektra, Atlantic, Sire, etc.
Six Flags Theme Park Chain
Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Braves professional sports teams.
In the book's 4th edition, published in 1992, he updated this number: "In the U.S. fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures now own and operate 90% of the mass media." He predicted then that the number of these corporations -- which control almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies -- would fall to about half a dozen. This was greeted immediately with skepticism, but when the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had indeed fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and their scope has expanded to include the Internet. More than