Stop Big Media: Who Owns the Media Charts and Stats

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-09-04 22:42.

SBM's ownership resource provides facts and figures to aid your own media messaging and campaigns.

The media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated too much control in too few hands. This leads to a lack of diversity of voices, programming that is out of touch with local concerns and increasingly commercial and homogenized news and entertainment. Further consolidation will produce media in which only the powerful few will be heard.

The chart below maps out the control the eight most concentrated giants exert over all forms of news, entertainment and information.

Click on these links to view information on conglomerates that control:

  • Television
  • Radio
  • Publishing and Newspapers

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