Parent Companies
ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, Marvel Studios
Disney
2012, the renowned indie Lucasfilm was sold to who?
Disney
Approximately how much of our media is controlled by the Big 6?
90%
The 2010 revenue for the Big 6 was $275.9 Billion. That is enough money to buy each NFL team approximately how many times?
12 times
The average young American (while multitasking of course) is able to fit how much media consumption into one day?
11 hours
NBC, Xfinity, The Weather Channel
Comcast
In 2005, Google acquired this online video source for an estimated $1.65 billion dollars.
YouTube
By 2011, 90% of media was owned by just 6 companies. Yet in 1983, it was owned by how many?
50 Companies
The largest media merger in history for a reported $165 billion was between which two companies?
AOL & Time Warner
AOL went public in March 1992 and was valued at $61.8 Million. At its peak in January 2000 as it merged with Time Warner, how much was AOL valued at?
$161 Billion
Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN
Time Warner
In 1995, Disney bought ABC for $19.6 billion. Yet just four years later in 1999, Viacom bought what entity for around $37 billion?
CBS
In 1995, the FCC forbade companies to own over 40 radio stations. Yet Clear Channel owns how many stations? (including every single station in Minot, ND)
1,200 Stations
80% of radio stations playlists match. This song has aired over 6 million times, that's 32 years of back-to-back non-stop play!
Mrs. Robinson
178 million unique users read Time Warner News every month. What are those 3 publications?
CNN, Time, & Huff Post
National Geographic, YES, the Big 10 Network
News Corp.
In 2013, GE, for the most part, got out of the entertainment business when it sold the remainder of it's NBC Universal holdings to __________.
Comcast
Just 232 media executives control the information diet of how many Americans?
277 Millions Americans
The Big 6's box office sales his $7 Billion in 2010, which is 2X the box office sales of the next how many studios combined?
140 studios
News Corp owns the top three newspapers on 3 continents. What are the names of those three publications?
Wall Street Journal, The Sun, and The Austrailian
MTV, BET, CMT, TV Guide
National Amusements
This company completed its acquisition of EMI Music Publishing in 2012, giving it a global market share of about 31% of all music publishing worldwide.
Sony
There is approximately one media exec for every ______________________ subscribers.
850,000
With the amount of money News Corp evaded in U.S. Taxes in the year 2010, it was enough to double FEMA's budget or fund NPR for the next 40 years. How much money did they avoid?
$875 Million
This privately-owned German media conglomerate has interests in 600 companies in 53 countries.
Bertlesmann