Multi national companies

Viacom


Viacom is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios).

Founded: 2006
Headquaters: New York, U.S.
Key people: Sumner Redstone (Chairman)
Industry: Cable TV, Motion Pictures.

Brands owned by Viacom
Film Production and Distribution: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures.


Television Networks: Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Noggin, The N, Nick Jr., TEENick, MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT, Palladia.


Television Production and Television Distribution: DreamWorks Television.


Video Gaming: Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets.


Time Warner


Time Warner is one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, headquartered in New York City. Formerly three separate companies: Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. before the Time-Warner merger in 1990 and America Online, Inc.


Headquaters: New York City, New York, U.S. (incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware and Chicago, Illinois)

Key people: Richard D. Parsons (chairman) and Jeffrey L. Bewkes (President and CEO)

Industry: Broadcasting, publishing, Internet and telecommunications.


Brands owned by Time Warner


New line Productions, picture house (co- owned by HBO)
AOL
HBO channels
Warner Bros. entertainment Inc
Time Inc


Sony


Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from Sonus, the Greek goddess of sound. Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments: - electronics, games, entertainment (motion pictures and music), financial services and other.


Founded: May 1946
Founder: Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita
Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Key People: Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman and CEO) and Ryoji Chubachi (President)
Industry: Consumer electronics and entertainment


Some of the brands owned by Sony


Sony Pictures entertainment
Sony Computer entertainment
Sony Music entertainment
Sony Ericsson
Sony Financial holdings


News Corporation


News Corporation is the world's largest media conglomerate companies by market capitalisation. News Corporation is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange and as a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.


Founded: Adelaide, Australia 1979
Headquarters: New York, formerly in Sydney
Key People: Rupert Murdoch, Peter Chernin, David DeVoe, Lawrence Jacobs andJames Murdoch.
Industry: Broadcasting, Publishing, Media, Internet, Entertainment


Some of the brands owned by News Corporation


Fox Television Studios
Myspace
Youtube
National Geographic channels
Star TV (Asian Satellite TV service)
Inside Out (UK based magazine)
Love it! (UK based magazine)

Roly Keating (Top 100 influencial figures in the media)

Roland "Roly" Keating (born August 5, 1961) is the current Director of Archive Content for the BBC.He joined the BBC in 1983. He was a producer and director for the Arts and Music department, making programmes for Omnibus, Bookmark (1992-7) and Arena. He was a producer and later became editor of The Late Show. In 1997, he became head of programming for UKTV. In 1999, he became the BBC Controller of Digital Channels. In 2000, he also took on the responsibility of Controller of Arts Commissioning. He became the Controller of digital television station BBC Four in December 2001, masterminding its March 2002 launch. In 2003, he was also joint leader of the BBC's Charter Review project for six months. He became the channel controller for BBC Two in June 2004. He was appointed temporary controller of BBC One following Peter Fincham's resignation on 5 October 2007.

Job: controller BBC2

Age: 46

Industry: broadcasting

Annual programming budget: £439.7m

2007 ranking: 67

Current Ranking: 62