Viacom
Viacom also known as Video and Audio Communications is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks. The Revenue for Viacom last year was $14.625 Billion. Its Operating income was $2.496 billion, its Net income was $1.251 billion, its total assets were $22.487 billion and its total equity was $7.033 billion. Viacom are involved with Film Production & Distribution, Television Networks, Video Gaming & New Media. Examples of Film Production would be Paramount Pictures, MTV Films & Nickelodeon Movies. Television Networks would be Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, MTV, VH1 etc. A few video games would be Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers & Neopets.
Time Warner
Time Warner Inc. is the world's largest entertainment company as well as the world's fourth largest media conglomerate, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. It was formerly three separate companies: Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. In 2008, its Revenue income was $46.98 billion, its Operating Income was $-15.95 billion, its Net income was $-13.40 billion, its total assets were $113.89 billion. Therefore their total equity and profit obtained was roughly $42.28 billion. Current assets Time Warner own are AOL, HBO, Turner Broadcasting which involves Cartoon Network, Pogo, HTV etc. They also are involved with CNN radio, Court TV radio and Headline News radio. Warner Bro’s, Time Inc. are also a well known asset.
NewsCorp
News Corporation is the world's second largest media conglomerate (after Walt Disney Company) from 2008 and the world's third largest in entertainment from 2009. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. On 6th May 2009, its Revenue was $32.996 billion and its net income was $5.38 billion in 2008. News Corp are involved with a lot of media for example, Books, Newspapers, Magazines, Music and Radio, Sport & Satellite Television. Books would be HarperCollins which are well known for creating English dictionaries. Well known newspapers are The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph etc. They also are linked with Vogue magazine, Fox Film Music Group & MySpace Records.
Sony
Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and is one of the world's largest media conglomerates.Its Revenue on 31st March 2009 was 7.730 trillion Yen, its Operating income was −227.8 billion Yen, its Net income was -98.9 billion Yen. In 2009, its total assets were $230.5 billion USD, and its total equity and profits are roughly $50 billion USD. Sony are known for making Batteries, Chemicals, creating Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Music and are highly known for creating the Playstation and also Blu-Ray.
