All Topics  
Media proprietor

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Media proprietor
 
 
  Topics Media proprietor Topic Home

A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
, a significant part of the mass media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
. Media proprietors are commonly called "media mogul
Mogul

Mogul may mean:*Mughal Empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty*Mogul is a powerful business leader also known as a business magnate...
s", "tycoons", "baron
Baron

Baron is a specific title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English language beorn meaning "nobleman."...
s", or "bosses".

The figure of the media proprietor first became prominent in the 19th century with the development of mass circulation newspapers. In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 they included Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British news media and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market....
, Lord Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful United Kingdom newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd....
 and Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Baronet, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, was a Canada-United Kingdom business tycoon, politician, and writer....
, and were known as "press barons" since most of them were given peerage
Peerage

The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title....
s.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Media proprietor'
Start a new discussion about 'Media proprietor'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


A media proprietor is a person who controls, either through personal ownership or a dominant position in a public company
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
, a significant part of the mass media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
. Media proprietors are commonly called "media mogul
Mogul

Mogul may mean:*Mughal Empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty*Mogul is a powerful business leader also known as a business magnate...
s", "tycoons", "baron
Baron

Baron is a specific title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English language beorn meaning "nobleman."...
s", or "bosses".

The figure of the media proprietor first became prominent in the 19th century with the development of mass circulation newspapers. In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 they included Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British news media and publishing magnate, famed for buying stolid, unprofitable newspapers and transforming them to make them lively and entertaining for the mass market....
, Lord Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a highly successful United Kingdom newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd....
 and Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Baronet, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, was a Canada-United Kingdom business tycoon, politician, and writer....
, and were known as "press barons" since most of them were given peerage
Peerage

The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title....
s. In the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 the best known press tycoon was William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
.

In the 20th century the definition of proprietorship expanded to include ownership of radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 networks, as well as film studios, publishing houses and more recently internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 and other forms of multimedia
Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content format. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms....
 companies. The term "press baron" was replaced by "media" baron, reflecting this. Some of the most prominent media proprietors of recent decades have been Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
, Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell

Ian Robert Maxwell Military Cross was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Parliament of the United Kingdom , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire, which collapsed after his death due to the fraudulent transactions Maxwell had committed to support his business empire, including illegal use of p...
, Marshall Naify
Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify was a film and media billionaire who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, a Hollywood production company which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films....
, Conrad Black
Conrad Black

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Order of St. Gregory the Great is a Canadian-born British people historian and columnist who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world....
, Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi

is an Politics of Italy, entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank and media proprietor, sports team owner and songwriter. He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy , a position he has held on three separate occasions: from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2006 and currently since 2008....
, Axel Springer
Axel Springer

Axel Springer , was a Germany journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company.Springer was born as Axel C?sar Springer in Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher....
 and Ted Turner
Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an United States media proprietor. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel....
.

Media proprietors are frequently accused of using their positions to further political agendas, and some of them have in fact done so. The British press barons exercised personal control over their papers and used them to wage political campaigns, usually though not always in the interests of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Conservative Party politician, statesman, and major figure on the political scene in the interwar years....
 once accused the London press of "exercising the prerogative of the harlot through the ages: power without responsibility." In recent years Rupert Murdoch has been frequently accused of abusing his media power to support such politicians as Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
, Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990....
, John Howard
John Howard

John Winston Howard, Order of Australia was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Robert Menzies....
, Tony Blair
Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair is a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007....
, George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
 and Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio List of Co-Princes of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party candidate S?gol?ne Royal ten days earlier....
. In Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 Silvio Berlusconi allegedly used his almost total control of the country's commercial television system to make himself Prime Minister.

List of media proprietors

  • Emilio Azcárraga
    Emilio Azcárraga

    Emilio Azc?rraga is the name of three members of the Azc?rraga family. Their business empire, Televisa, is the main television network in Mexico and the largest producer and broadcaster of Spanish Broadcast media around the world....
    , Grupo Televisa
  • Silvio Berlusconi
    Silvio Berlusconi

    is an Politics of Italy, entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank and media proprietor, sports team owner and songwriter. He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy , a position he has held on three separate occasions: from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2006 and currently since 2008....
    , Fininvest
    Fininvest

    Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi family.The Fininvest Group is composed by many important companies, e.g....
    , Mediaset
    Mediaset

    Mediaset is an Italy commercial television network and it has headquarters in Milan, Lombardy. The network was founded by Silvio Berlusconi, but today it is controlled by his family through Fininvest which has as major shareholder Silvio Berlusconi himself....
  • Conrad Black
    Conrad Black

    Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Order of St. Gregory the Great is a Canadian-born British people historian and columnist who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world....
    , Hollinger Inc.
    Hollinger Inc.

    Hollinger Inc. is based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. It was the parent company of Chicago-based Sun-Times Media Group, whose primary holdings include a group of Chicago newspapers....
    , Sun-Times Media Group
    Sun-Times Media Group

    Sun-Times Media Group is the holding company of a Chicago based newspaper group. Thirty percent of the group is owned by Canadian based Hollinger Inc....
    , Ravelston Corporation
  • Bill Bresnan
  • Aga Khan IV
    Aga Khan IV

    Shah Karim al-Hussayni, The Aga Khan IV, Order of the British Empire, Order of Canada, Order of Christ, Order of Prince Henry is the 49th and current Imam of the Ismaili Muslims....
    , Daily Nation
    Daily Nation

    The Daily Nation, an independent newspaper, is the most influential newspaper in Kenya with a daily circulation of about 205,000 copies . The total readership is likely to be higher as each copy is read by a large number of people....
    , East Africa
  • Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
    Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

    Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. , formerly CEO of Seagram and vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, has been CEO of Warner Music Group since 2004. He is the son of Edgar Bronfman, Sr....
    , Warner Music
  • W. Jeffrey Brown, All Headline News, AHN Media Corp
  • Serge Dassault
    Serge Dassault

    Serge Dassault is a France entrepreneur and Conservatism politician. According to Forbes magazine, he was the 56th richest person in the world....
    , Dassault Group
    Dassault Group

    Dassault Group, is a France group of companies led by Serge Dassault.Managing directors are Claude Dassault and Olivier Costa De Beauregard....
  • Nick Denton
    Nick Denton

    Nick Denton is a United Kingdom journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker.com....
    , Gawker Media
    Gawker Media

    Gawker Media is an online Mass media company founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies....
  • Richard Desmond
    Richard Desmond

    Richard Clive Desmond is an United Kingdom publisher and television executive, owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell, which publishes OK!, New! and Star ....
    , Northern and Shell, Express Newspapers
    Express Newspapers

    Express Newspapers are a United Kingdom newspaper group owned by Richard Desmond. They publish the Daily Express, Daily Express#Sunday_Express, Daily Star and Daily Star ....
  • Barry Diller
    Barry Diller

    Barry Diller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp and the Mass media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting....
    , IAC/InterActiveCorp
    IAC/InterActiveCorp

    IAC, sometimes known as IAC/InterActiveCorp or simply InterActiveCorp, is an American media conglomerate which operates diversified businesses in sectors being strongly influenced by the internet....
     CEO
  • Aydin Dogan
    Aydin Dogan

    Aydin Dogan is a billionaire Turkish people businessman and a media proprietor....
    , Dogan Medya
  • Michael Eisner
    Michael Eisner

    Michael Eisner was chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005....
    , former Walt Disney Company Chairman
  • Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere
    Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere

    Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere succeeded his father as the Viscount Rothermere in 1998. He had previously been known as The Honourable Jonathan Harmsworth....
    , Daily Mail and General Trust plc
  • William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst

    William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
    , newspaperman
  • Robert Hersant
    Robert Hersant

    Robert Hersant was a France newspaper magnate with right-wing political views....
    , newspaperman
  • Leo Kirch
    Leo Kirch

    Leo Kirch is a Germany Mass media entrepreneur who founded the Kirch Group....
    , of KirchMedia
  • Andrew Knight
    Andrew Knight

    Andrew Stephen Bower Knight is a journalist, editing, and media baron.He was educated at the Roman Catholic school Ampleforth College, where he was appointed Head boy, and was awarded an Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford ....
  • Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc Lagardère

    Jean-Luc Lagard?re was a major France businessman, CEO of the Lagardere Group, one of the largest French Conglomerate s.Jean-Luc Lagard?re was a Supelec engineer....
     and his son Arnaud Lagardère
    Arnaud Lagardère

    Arnaud Lagard?re is the current CEO of Lagard?re Group. He succeeded his father Jean-Luc Lagard?re at this position.He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt....
    , Lagardère Group
    Lagardère Group

    Lagard?re SCA is a French Conglomerate formerly known as Matra, with holdings in publishing, retail, Mass media, and Aerospace manufacturer. The firm is a soci?t? en commandite par actions or limited partnership....
  • Christos Lambrakis
    Christos Lambrakis

    Christos Dimitrios Lambrakis is the owner of Lambrakis Press Group, one of the largest newspaper groups in Greece.He was born in Athens. From 1954 to 1957 he worked as a journalist at the To Vima newspaper and was editor of the magazine Tachydromos....
    , DOL
    Dol

    Dol may refer to one of the following.*List of unusual units of measurement#Dol, a little-used unit of measurement for pain*DOL acronym:...
     President
  • Roberto Marinho
    Roberto Marinho

    Roberto Pisani Marinho . Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Marinho was the president and founder* of the biggest Brazilian TV channel, TV Globo. He came under criticism in the documentary Beyond Citizen Kane for his role at Globo....
    , Rede Globo
    Rede Globo

    Rede Globo is a Brazilian Television broadcasting, owned by media conglomerate Organiza??es Globo. The network is currently one of the largest in The Americas and the fourth largest in the world, watched by 120 million people daily....
  • Vincent K. McMahon, owner and Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment
    World Wrestling Entertainment

    World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated arts and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales....
  • Narendra Mohan
    Narendra Mohan

    Narendra Mohan was an Indian industrialist, chairman and managing director of the Indian rupee 874-crore Dainik Jagran Prakashan publisher for India's largest selling Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran....
     of The Jagran Group
    Dainik Jagran

    Dainik Jagran is a leading Hindi -language broadsheet daily newspaper in India. The newspaper is the largest read daily among all broadsheets in the world as revalidated by WAN....
  • Marshall Naify
    Marshall Naify

    Marshall Naify was a film and media billionaire who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, a Hollywood production company which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films....
    , Chairman of United Artists
    United Artists

    United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
  • John Malone of Liberty Media
    Liberty Media

    The Liberty Media Corporation is an United States media conglomerate and the control is exercised by engineer Dr. John C. Malone, with a majority of the voting shares....
  • Victor Collin Matthews, Baron Matthews
  • Robert Maxwell
    Robert Maxwell

    Ian Robert Maxwell Military Cross was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Parliament of the United Kingdom , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire, which collapsed after his death due to the fraudulent transactions Maxwell had committed to support his business empire, including illegal use of p...
    , politician and newspaperman
  • Jean-Marie Messier
    Jean-Marie Messier

    Jean-Marie Messier is a France businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi SA until 2002....
    , former head of Vivendi Universal
  • Thomas Middelhoff
    Thomas Middelhoff

    Thomas Middelhoff is a Germany corporate manager. Since May 2004, Middelhoff has been chairman of the supervisory board of Arcandor, and since May 12, 2005 he has been CEO of the company....
     of Bertelsmann
    Bertelsmann

    Bertelsmann AG is a transnational mass media corporation founded in 1835, based in G?tersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,397 workers ....
  • Sun Myung Moon
    Sun Myung Moon

    Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the world-wide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, artistic, mass-media, educational, and other activities....
     of News World Communications
    News World Communications

    News World Communications, Inc. is a media corporation owned by the Unification Church. Two of News World's most well-known subsidiaries are The Washington Times and United Press International....
  • Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch

    Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
     of News Corporation
    News Corporation

    News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
  • Tony O'Reilly
    Tony O'Reilly

    Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly also known as Tony O'Reilly and Dr A.J.F. O'Reilly, is an Irish businessman and former rugby union player....
    , Independent News & Media Group
  • Kerry Packer
    Kerry Packer

    Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, Order of Australia , son of Frank Packer, was an Australian publishing, media and the tycoon who owned the Nine Network....
     and his son James Packer
    James Packer

    James Douglas Packer is an Australian businessman and currently Australia's seventh richest man.Packer is the son of the late billionaire media mogul Kerry Packer and grandson of Frank Packer....
     of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL)
    Publishing and Broadcasting Limited

    Publishing and Broadcasting Limited was one of Australia's largest companies, with interests primarily in media and gaming. The company demerger in late 2007, spin out its gaming interests into Crown Limited....
  • Jesús de Polanco
    Jesús de Polanco

    Jes?s Polanco Guti?rrez, also known as Jes?s de Polanco was a businessman from Spain who built a considerable media empire. In 2005, he was ranked at number 210 in Forbes World's Richest People list, and was number 258 in 2006....
    , PRISA
    PRISA

    PRISA , is a media conglomerate and the biggest publisher in Spain. The group was founded in 1972 by Jes?s de Polanco.*The brands owned by Grupo PRISA are:...
    , Sogecable
    Sogecable

    Sogecable is the leading pay TV company in Spain, created in 1989 and controlled by PRISA. It was the first company to introduce interactive systems and specially Digital Television in Spain....
  • Generoso Pope Jr.
    Generoso Pope Jr.

    'Generoso Paul "Gene" Pope, Jr.' was an United States Media mogul, best known for creating The National Enquirer.Pope learned the newspaper business from his father, Generoso Pope Sr., a New York political powerbroker and quarry magnate whose Italian-American newspaper interests included the Corriere d'America and the daily Il Progress...
    , founder of The National Enquirer
    The National Enquirer

    The National Enquirer is an America n supermarket tabloid now published by American Media . Founded in 1926, the tabloid has gone through a variety of changes over the years, and is currently well-known for its articles focusing on celebrity news, gossip, and crime....
     & American Media, Inc.
  • Sumner Redstone
    Sumner Redstone

    Sumner Murray Redstone is majority owner and Chair of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Sumner Redstone and his family are majority owners of CBS Corporation, Viacom, and MTV Networks, Black Entertainment Television, and movie production and distribution Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios, and...
    , Viacom
    Viacom

    Viacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an United States media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable television and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution ....
     Chief
  • Samir Sahu Jain
    Sahu Jain

    Sahu Jain is an important industrial family of India. They own the Times Group. They are of Agrawal Jain community.Sahu Jains hail from a small town of Najibabad, Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India....
     & Vineet Sahu Jain
    Sahu Jain

    Sahu Jain is an important industrial family of India. They own the Times Group. They are of Agrawal Jain community.Sahu Jains hail from a small town of Najibabad, Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India....
     of The Times Group
    The Times Group

    The Times Group is the largest media services conglomerate in India . It is headed by brothers Samir and Vineet Jain. It reaches out from:*11 publishing centers ...
  • Silvio Santos
    Silvio Santos

    S?lvio Santos is a TV show host in Brazil and owner of Sistema Brasileiro de Televis?o, the second largest Brazilian television network.Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro....
    , SBT
  • Jeremy Sebbag, Captivision Media President
  • Run Run Shaw
    Run Run Shaw

    Sir Run Run Shaw Order of the British Empire, Grand Bauhinia Medal is a Hong Kong media mogul....
    , chairman of TVB
  • Axel Springer
    Axel Springer

    Axel Springer , was a Germany journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company.Springer was born as Axel C?sar Springer in Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher....
    , of Axel-Springer-Verlag
  • Howard Stern
    Howard Stern

    Howard Allan Stern is an American radio presenter and media personality, best known for hosting The Howard Stern Show, currently an uncensored talk radio show that airs on Howard 100 on SIRIUS XM Radio....
    , of Sirius Satellite Radio
    Sirius Satellite Radio

    Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in the United States and Canada, owned by Sirius XM Radio. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Tennessee, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of sports, news and ente...
     and On Demand Television
  • Martha Stewart
    Martha Stewart

    Martha Helen Stewart is an American business magnate, television host, author and magazine publisher. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising....
    , of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
    Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

    Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is a diversified media and merchandising company founded by Martha Stewart. It is organized into four business segments: Publishing, Internet and Broadcasting media platforms and Merchandising product lines ....
  • Ted Turner
    Ted Turner

    Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an United States media proprietor. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel....
    , former Time Warner
    Time Warner

    Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
     Vice President
  • Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
    , of The Oprah Winfrey Show
    The Oprah Winfrey Show

    The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
    , The Big Give
    The Big Give

    About theBigGive.org.uktheBigGive.org.uk is a free to use website that helps major donors find high-level charity projects in their field of interest....
    , Harpo Productions
    Harpo Productions

    Harpo Productions is an incorporation United States multimedia Film production company founded by media mogul Oprah Winfrey . It also includes Harpo Films & Harpo Radio, Inc. ....


See also

  • Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
  • Media conglomerate
    Media conglomerate

    A media conglomerate describes companies that own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet....
    Category:Mass media owners
    Category:Newspaper publishers (people)
    Category:Magazine publishers (people)


External links