--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > oops, it appears you may be right. The majority of media ownership in the US is concentrated among gasp! SIX corporations. Now what was it you were saying about a limited perspective? > > http://www.corporations.org/media/ >
> And the author you cite is referring to a majority of media, which could mean 55%, not ALL media. Further, I think he is misleading and not counting major media such as cable, video content providers, internet media, etc. The metric used to compare companies is important and problematic. Do you use market capitalization, revenues, profit, customers? Which best represent "media influence"? And use of customers is problematic in that many media companies lay claim to the same customer. Who "owns" the customer? Following are some media related industry groups and their market caps. Followed by the top five media companies. They account for less than 27 % of the total media industry. Defining what companies constitue "media" and what portions of their activity is media related is also problematic. I think these figures are conservative for the excludes companies like Microsoft and Apple, which are increasingly becoming media players. And excludes "gaming companies" -- which is increasngly improtant media "content. And excludes media companies such as NBC because they are part of GE, a much larger primarily non media company and a equivalent market cap figure is not quickly derived. Media Company Market Capitalization $Bil Advertising Agencies 44.7 Broadcasting - Radio 43.7 Broadcasting - TV 30.2 CATV Systems 150.8 Entertainment - Diversified 167.4 General Entertainment 113.2 Movie Production, Theaters 9.8 Music & Video Stores 4.1 Publishing - Books 20.2 Publishing - Newspapers 78.5 Publishing - Periodicals 39.3 Multimedia & Graphics Software 37.8 Internet Software & Services 146.1 Internet Information Providers 140.5 Information & Delivery Services 17.7 Internet Service Providers 5.8 Total Media 1049.8 Time Warner 77.7 Disney 51.2 News Corporation (est) 50 Bertelsmann (est) 50 Viaco m 51.8 Total 280.7 Top Five as % of All 26.6% To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
