Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Media / Entertainment /Broadcasting Conglomerates


Vivendi
French media and telco conglomerate with various divisions involved in film production,publishing,pay TV,TV broadcasting,video games publishing and telecommunications.
Universal Music Group - music publishing
Activision Blizzard - video game publishing
Canal+ Group - film and TV studio & publishing


News Corporation
Owned by Rupert Murdoch American-Australian businessman. Wall Street Journal Newspaper is part of his group.


Viacom
Spin off from CBS in 2005 with its film production company Paramount Pictures. On the children entertainment, Nickelodeon's is a popular kids channel with cartoon such as Sponge Bob Square Pants and sitcom I Carly.


Time Warner
HBO channel is one of Time Warner profitable TV channels with latest movies.


The Walt Disney Co.
ESPN Sports channel which 80% owned by Walt Disney has contributed significantly to its bottom line in view of flattish performance of its Theme Park and other divisions revenue.






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