Holdings
This list is indicative only.
Electronics and Communications manufacturing
Products include:
- compact disk players
- mini disc players
- Walkman
- WEB TV devices
- audio and video tapes
- digital video disks
- camcorders and digital imaging products
- televisions
- radios
- video cassette recorders
- business and consumer communication systems
- digital satellite systems
- digital radio and microwave telecommunication systems
- computers
- CD and DVD players
- batteries
Film production & distribution
- Columbia Tri-Star
- Columbia Pictures
- Tri-Star Pictures
- Jim Henson Productions (partial interest)
- Mandalay Entertainment (partial interest)
- Phoenix Pictures (partial interest)
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Columbia-Tri Star Home Video
- 49% of Huasuo joint venture with Hualong Film Digital Production (China Film Group subsidiary)
Cinemas
Metreon
Sony's stake in the Sony/Loews Theaters group ( around 2,960 screens in North America, inc Magic Johnson Theaters and Loews-Star Theaters) was a victim of the Loews Cineplex crisis of 2001
Merchandise
- Sony Signatures - (entertainment related clothes and merchandise)
Insurance and Financing
- Sony Life Insurance Company
- Sony Finance International
Games & Interactive
- Sony Play Station - machine and software
- Psygnosis Limited - video game developer
- Sony Online
- TheStation [at] sony [dot] com - online entertainment network
- Jeopardy Online, Wheel of Fortune Online
- Columbia Tri-Star Interactive
Music
- Sony Music
- Legacy
- Sony Music Nashville
- Sony Wonder (children's music)
- Sony Music Products (promotional music for business)
- Sony Music Soundtrak
- Tri-Star Music
- WORK
- Crave
- 57 Records
- 550 Music
- Columbia Records
- Epic Records
- Epic Soundtrak
- Shotput Records
- Relatively Entertainment
- RED Distribution
- Relatively Records
- Harmony Records
- Sony Music International
- Soho Square
- Dance Pool
- Mambo
- Rubenstein
- Squatt
- Sony Classical
- Arc of Light
- Masterworks
- Sony Broadway
- SEON
- Vivarte
- Sony Music Publishing (copyright owners, joint venture with Michael Jackson)
- Columbia House (minor stake in venture with AOL Time Warner and Blackstone Capital Partners)
- Music Choice (with AOL Time Warner, EMI and General Instrument - digital stereo for cable TV)
- Music Choice Europe
Television Production & Distribution
- Columbia-TriStar Television (programming)
- Columbia-TriStar Television Distribution
- Columbia-TriStar Television International Television
- The Game Show Network
- International Television Ventures
- Cinemax Latin America
- Interests in:
- E! - Latin America
- HBO Ole
- HBO Brasil
- Mundo Ole
- Warner Channel - Latin America
- Showtime - Australia
- Encore - Australia
- TVI - Australia
- Channel V - Asia
- Cinemax Asia
- HBO Asia
- Beijing Television Arts Center
- Viva 1 - Germany
- Viva 2 - Germany
- Carlton Productions UK - controlled by Carlton Communications
- Golden Square Productions (UK)
- Frensch Productions (Germany)
- HBO Poland
- Sony has licensing arrangements and interest in:
- FORTA (Spain)
- BSkyB (satellite broadcaster in which News Corporation has dominant share)
- JSkyB (Japan)
It formerly had an interest in the Kirch Group (German television/film production and broadvcasting) and was managing partner of Telemundo (sold to NBC in 2002), a Spanish-language television network jointly owned with Apollo Management, Bastion Capital Fund and Liberty Media