Media Institutions

VIACOM

Viacom connects with a diverse audience everywhere. As a leading global entertainment content company, they know what their viewers want and proudly deliver it across the globe through television, motion pictures and a wide range of digital media. Their includes the multiplatform properties of MTV Networks, BET Networks, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks.

MTV Networks includes favourites like
MTV,
VH1,
Nickelodeon,
Nick at Nite,

BET Networks presents the best in Black media and entertainment featuring traditional and digital platforms.
BET
BET J,
BET Gospel,
BET Hip Hop,
BET.com,
BET Mobile,
BET Event Productions
BET International deliver relevant and insightful content to consumers of Black culture in more than 88 million households.

Paramount Pictures Corporation, audiences have access to a huge library of top films through brands like
Paramount Pictures,
Paramount Vantage,
MTV Films,
Nickelodeon Movies,
DreamWorks
Paramount Home Entertainment.

Fuelled by world-class brands, Viacom serves an ever-growing population of kids, teens and adults who want their favourite media and entertainment, 24/7.

TIME WARNER

Time Warner Inc. is a leading media and entertainment company, whose businesses include interactive services, cable systems, filmed entertainment, television networks and publishing.

Their enterprise is more than a collection of great brands that are owned under one roof. Time Warner’s businesses strive to gain competitive advantage from opportunities for constructive collaboration.

They are innovators in technology, products and services. Their digital products and services reinforce the company’s industry-leading brands on all platforms with a focus on growth and engagement.

Among Time Warner's digital initiatives are:

AOL Video,

AOL Music,

AIM,

MapQuest and Moviefone;

HBO on Demand and AT&T mobile devices; Time Warner Cable's enhanced digital video applications,

Road Runner High Speed Online and Digital Phone services

SI.com and Time.com; Turner Broadcasting's CNN.com,

TCM.com,

CartoonNetwork.com,

TheSmokingGun.com,

superdeluxe.com,

AdultSwim.com,

Veryfunnyads.com,

NASCAR.com,

pga.com and GameTap; and joint initiatives like In2TV and TMZ.com from AOL and Warner Bros. as well as CNNMoney.com from Time Inc. and Turner.

NEW CORPARATION

Corporate Information

Board of Directors

News Corporation Executives

News Corporation Government Relations

Filmed Entertainment

Fox Studios Australia

Fox Television Studios

Twentieth Century Fox Film

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising

Twentieth Century Fox Television

Television

FOX Broadcasting Company

FOXTEL

FOX Sports

FOXSports.com on MSN

Fox Television Stations

MyNetworkTV

STAR

Twentieth Television

Cable Network Programming

FOX Business Network

FOX News Channel

Fox Cable Networks

Fox International Channels

FSN

FX Networks

National Geographic Channel

Direct Broadcast Satellite TV

British Sky Broadcasting

SKY Italia

Magazines and Inserts

News America Marketing

The Weekly Standard

Newspapers and Information Services

New York Post

News International

News Limited

The Wall Street Journal

Dow Jones

Book Publishing

HarperCollins

Other Assets

Fox Interactive Media

NDS Group

News Digital Media

SONY

Originally called Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company Sony’s roots go back over half a century.

TTK was already being used by another company so a new name, Sony, was conceived.

Sony’s UK history began in 1968 when Sony United Kingdom was founded in London. Six years later Sony became the first major Japanese company to open a factory in the UK.

Today there are two factories, both in Wales, at Bridgend and Pencoed, which between them manufacture broadcast cameras, television sets and components for the UK and export to other countries around the world.

Sony was awarded the prestigious Queens Award for Export on four occasions in the 80s and 90s.

Today Sony UK employs around 4,500 people in functions including Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing.

Sony BMG music entertainment
Sony pictures

Sony Ericsson

Playstation

SonyCard

MGM - Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Who owns it?

Providence Equity Partners(29%)
TPG Capital, L.P(21%)
Sony(20%)
Comcast(20%)
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners(7%)
Quadrangle Group(3%)

History

MGM and its legendary roaring lion logo was founded in April 1924 by theater magnate Marcus Loew, who made the merger of Metro Pictures Corp,Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions. With visionary Louis B. Mayer and production genius Irving Thalberg at the helm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was a powerhouse of prolific artistry and filmmaking expertise that the studio famously said attracted “more stars than there are in the heavens.”

1924-1954, the Culver City-based studio dominated the movie business, creating a Best Picture nominee every year for three straight decades. Another memorable year was at the Academy Awards 1939 when MGM’s "Gone With the Wind" and MGM’s "The Wizard Of Oz" were both nominated for Best Picture. "Gone With the Wind" took home Best Picture that year, along with 8 other Oscars. "The Wizard of Oz" secured two Oscars. Hattie McDaniel Won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Oscar.

MGM Studios relocated to the newly-built MGM Tower in Century City in June 2003. The building’s architecture and interior design was chosen to reflect the studio's grand history, to honor its founders and proudly display its most prized possessions.

MGM's impressive library is comprised of titles from the United Artists, Orion Pictures, Goldwyn Entertainment and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment libraries. The library also features 156 Golden Globe Awards and 147 British Academy Awards. With approximately 4,100 films and over 10,400 hours of television programming, the MGM library includes the Rocky and Pink Panther franchises and the celebrated James Bond franchise, the longest running and most profitable series in film history.

November 2006, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, one of the most successful film production teams ever, partnered with MGM to rebirth United Artists, returning the studio to its roots by recognizing what made UA great in the first place - studio management by creative talent who can best encourage and support other creative talent.

Texts

Currently MGM has a total of 205 Academy Awards. Among those are 15 Best Pictures.
These films include:
Rebecca - 1940
Best Years of Our Lives - 1946
Hamlet - 1948
Marty - 1955
The Apartment - 1960
West Side Story - 1961
Tom Jones - 1963
In the Heat of the Night - 1967
Midnight Cowboy - 1969
Rocky - 1976
Annie Hall - 1977
Platoon - 1986
Rain Man - 1988
Dances with Wolves - 1990
The Silence of the Lambs - 1991

Finaces & Income

Recent Development

Jane Tranter

NEW ENTRY - JANE TRANTER #10

Job: Controller of fiction, BBC
Age: 45
Industry: Broadcasting
Annual programming budget: £440m
Staff: 65

Jane Tranter failed her 11+ and went to a top university. She was a BBC secretary who rose to take charge of all of its drama's.

She's come a long way after working as an assistant floor manager on EastEnders and Bergerac, and this is where her her television career began. After working as a script editor on Casualty, she joined Carlton - where she executive produced ill-fated soap London Bridge.

After working as assistant floor manager on EastEnders and Bergerac. She is now a English Television executive and Head of Fiction at BBC television and also responsible for drama, comedy, film and any acquisitions that are made across the corporation's television output.


She is also known as the second most important person in the BBC,

Shakespeare
Rome
Jane Eyre
Life on Mars
Bleak House
Hotel Babylon
Robin Hood
Doctor Who
Bodies
Torchwood
Blackpool
Casanova
Spooks
EastEnders
Casualty
Bergerac
Wilderness
Bramwell
London Bridge
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