Time Warner-

Time Warner (formerly AOL Time Warner) is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Previously two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc., (along with the assets of a third company, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.) form the current Time Warner, with major operations in film, television and publishing. Among its subsidiaries are New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, TheWB.com, Warner Bros., Kids' WB, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Adult Swim, CNN, DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios and Castle Rock Entertainment. The merger of time inc and Warner communications was accounced on march 4, 1989 then in the same year paramount communications launched a 12.2 billion hostile bid to acquire time in time inc, has numerous holdings in a range of media. In this media it includes, television, movies, publishing, games and websites. These different types of media are divided into four different main divisions: Time Inc, Home Box Office (HBO), Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros Entertainment. HBO has a lot of channels, including but not limited to HBO, HBO Asia, HBO Central Europe, HBO Latin America, Cinemax and E! Latin America Channel. The Turner Broadcasting Systems division holds, among others, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN, HTV, TBS, HLN, Turner Classic Movies and Tuner Network Television. Also, The Warner Bros Entertainment Group, Warner Bros Consumer Products and Warner Bros Studio Facilities. Time Inc’s holdings include Time, Health, Money, Sports Illustrated, Fortune Entertainment Weekly and Essence. In April 2011, Time Warner Cable In and Viacom Inc sued each other’s company in federal court over a dispute over broadcasting rights on portable electronic devices. Warner Bros was founded in 1918 as Warner Bros Studios and then was founded in 1923 as Warner Bros Pictures. Time Inc was founded in 1922. Home Box Office was founded in 1972 (HBO). Turner Broadcasting System was founded in 1970. One of Time Warner’s televisions channels CNN has been accused of perpetrating media bias for allegedly promoting both a conservative and a liberal agenda based on previous incidents. Accuracy in Media and the Media Research Center has claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories. However, CNN are more towards being a liberal company as they are very pro immigration and anti-war, this would be shown throughout the whole of the company and shown in all the different types of media Time Warner has. In my opinion, Time Warner is a good company to be a conglomerate company because it is telling their viewers what things are wrong and this is good because it stops people from doing the things that are seen as bad.

Disney-

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. in 1929, and became publicly-traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands. Walt Disney has taken over quite a few other companies. Such as the ABC broadcasting television network, they also own the ABC Family publishing and merchandising. Disney owns the company ESPN which is a cable television network. Disney also merged with Pixar in 2006 when Disney bought the company and there has been a lot of success with the merge. Walt Disney Pictures was founded in 1929 where the company started making live-action films. Walt Disney Animation Studios was founded in 1923 where the company started making animated featured films, with characters such as Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney Theatrical Productions was founded around 1994 where the company had shows on at theatres. Disney took over the company ABC in 1954. Walt Disney is a conglomerates company as it is a company that owns large amounts of companies in a different various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies and the Internet. I think in my own opinion that it is good that Disney own as much as they do because Disney never produce anything that is not suitable for the viewers, this is good because no one can complain to the company what they have done wrong and because Disney own a lot of different types of the media this stops their target audience listening and watching something that is not appropriate for them. But it could also be seen as a bad thing because Disney is seen as a very racial and anti-Jewish company as in all the short films the voice over’s of the villains in each film are black people. This is made a dispute as a lot of people spoke up to Disney about this as they feel like Disney are discriminating black people saying they are all criminals and villains.

Structure and Ownership of the Media

This is our first assignment for our media where i will be looking at different media industries.