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Groups

This page identifies US-based media groups profiled on this site.


It covers current groups -

  • Advance and Newhouse - a dominant US magazine and newspaper publisher
  • American Media - Generoso Pope, National Enquirer and the American Media group
  • Anschutz - US newspaper and entertainment venue group
  • AOL - America Online, subsequently merged with Time Warner
  • Belo - US newspaper and television operator
  • Black Press - minor US newspaper publisher
  • Block - Toledo Blade and other Block family properties
  • Bloomberg - the US financial data services network
  • Cablevision - US cable television and content group
  • CBS - the US media group absorbed by Viacom and then spun off by
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Citadel - US radio network
  • Clear Channel - arguably the world's largest radio broadcaster (1,200+ stations), with a substantial Australian presence and dwarfing US competitors such as Entercom and Citadel
  • Comcast - US cable television and programming group
  • Cox - US print, broadcasting and telecommunications group
  • Cumulus - US broadcasting
  • Disney - US media conglomerate
  • Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal
  • Emmis - minor US broadcaster and publisher
  • Entercom - US broadcast
  • Fisher - broadcast
  • Forbes
  • Freedom and Hoiles - US publishing
  • Gannett - publishing
  • Harte-Hanks - US publishing
  • Hearst - US publishing and broadcast
  • IDG - publishing
  • Ingersoll, PM and the Journal Register group
  • Journal Communications - US mini-conglomerate centred on the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
  • Landmark - US newspaper publisher and broadcaster
  • LGP and Purcell - US newspaper groups
  • Liberty - US and EU cable and satellite television group. There is a supplementary note on AT&T
  • LIN Broadcasting and LIN TV - US broadcasting groups
  • Live Nation - US-based live entertainment management and venues group
  • McClatchy - US regional newspaper publisher
  • McGraw-Hill - publishing
  • Media General - publishing and broadcast
  • MediaNews - Singleton & Scudder newspaper chain
  • Meredith - magazine and television chain
  • Morris Communications and Stauffer
  • NBC, RCA and RKO
  • News Corporation - Murdoch
  • News Services - AP, UP, UPI, AFP and AAP
  • New York Times - and the Sulzbergers
  • Paxson - US television network
  • PBS - public sector broadcasting in the US
  • Primedia - ailing US magazine and internet group
  • Pulitzer and Lee - two US newspaper groups whose merger was announced in 2005
  • Readers Digest
  • Scripps - publishing and broadcast
  • Seattle Times, the Blethens and Guy Gannett Communications
  • Sinclair - broadcast
  • Six Flags - US theme park group
  • Stephens and Donrey - US media groups
  • Taft - broadcasting, production, theme parks
  • Time Warner - books, music, theme parks, magazines, cable and broadcast tv ...
  • Tribune - radio, television, magazines and newspapers (including the Chandler's LA Times and the McCormick's Chicago Tribune)
  • Viacom - Sumner Redstone's cable tv, music, cinemas, book, film, theme park group that absorbed Westinghouse
  • Warner Music - the record and music publishing group unloaded by Time Warner in 2003
  • Washington Post, Newsweek and the Grahams
  • Westinghouse and Group W - former broadcast
  • Wiley - US specialist publisher
  • Getty
  • Corbis

and past groups -

  • ABC - the US ABC commercial network, now part of Disney
  • Annenberg - the former US magazine, newspaper and broadcast group
  • Crowell-Collier - former US publishing and broadcasting groups
  • Curtis - US publishing
  • the New York Herald-Tribune, the IHT, James Gordon Bennett, John Hay Whitney and Whitelaw Reid
  • MacFadden - US pulp publisher
  • Metromedia, Kluge and DuMont
  • RKO and General Teleradio - the former film production, broadcasting and cable television groups - and the Mutual Network
  • Weider - magazine publisher