Sumner Redstone, a Jew born by the name of Murray Rothstein, acquired control of Viacom in 1987, Paramount Pictures in 1993 and CBS in December 1999. Since then, most of the mainstream media industry has come under his authority.Until 2004, Redstone had a Jew named Melvin A. Karmazin working under him as the CEO of CBS. After Karmazin left the company and followed Howard Stern (the Jew "shock jock") to Sirius, a new Jew, CBS head Leslie Moonves, became the CEO; earlier, Moonves had named Jewess Nancy Tellem president of CBS's television operations. CBS controls 14 major-market TV stations, 160 radio stations, the Country Music Television and the Nashville Network cable channels, as well as a large number of outdoor advertising assets.
Answering to Redstone as the CEO of Viacom is a Jew named Philippe Dauman. Viacom produces and distributes TV programs for the three largest networks; it also owns 12 radio stations and a publishing division that includes Simon & Schuster, Scribner, The Free Press, Fireside, Archway Paperbacks and Minstrel Books, Anne Schwartz Books, MTV Books, Nickelodeon Books, Pocket Books, and Washington Square Press. It distributes videos through over 4,000 Blockbuster stores (including the Video Flicks chain in Australia) and is involved in satellite broadcasting, as well as theme park and video game design.
Viacom also produces feature films through Paramount Pictures, one of the leading producers of the highest-grossing motion pictures in America. Jewess Sherry Lansing was the CEO of Paramount until 2005, the year a different Jew, Brad Grey, was appointed to her position. Viacom also jointly operates the major overseas motion picture enterprise United International Pictures (UIP).
Viacom's chief claim to fame, however, is as the world's largest provider of cable programming. In addition to Showtime, MTV and Nickelodeon, Viacom owns ten other major networks. Since 1989, MTV and Nickelodeon have acquired larger and larger shares of the juvenile television audience. The first quarter of 2001 was the 16th consecutive quarter in which MTV was rated as the #1 cable network for viewers between the ages of 12 and 24. Redstone, who actually owns 76 per cent of the shares of Viacom, thus has the power to promote those who become teen role models. He is currently the single largest purveyor of "multicultural" Hip Hop propaganda to teenagers and sub-teens in America.Redstone's influence also extends to Europe. MTV Networks acquired The Music Factory (TMF) from the Dutch media and marketing group Wegener in 2001. TMF distributes music to almost 10 million homes in Holland and Belgium. Furthermore, MTV is expanding its presence in Europe through new channels, including MTV Dance (Britain) and MTV Live (Scandinavia). MTV Italy is active through Cecchi Gori Communications. Altogether, MTV pumps its messages into 210 million homes in 71 countries and is the dominant cultural influence on White teenagers around the world.
Nickelodeon, with about 65 million subscribers, has by far the largest share of the four-to-11-year-old TV audience in America. The network is expanding rapidly into Europe, too. As of early 2001, Nickelodeon was continuing a nine-year streak as the top cable network for children and younger teenagers.
Another Jewish media mogul is Edgar Bronfman, Jr., whose father was president of the World Jewish Congress until 2007. While Bronfman led Seagram Company, Ltd., the liquor giant, he controlled Universal Studios, MCA, PolyGram, and Deutsche Grammophon, as well as Interscope Records, the foremost promoter of "gangsta rap" in the early 90s. Interscope's history began with the signing of Latin rapper, Gerardo, and continued with the discovery of Marky Mark, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Since then, Seagram has gone to French conglomerate Vivendi and Bronfman, the vice chair of Vivendi, has moved on to acquire Warner Music Group, the third largest business group and record label family in the recording industry.
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from "It's the Media, Stupid", by Vincent L. Guarisco (edited for content by Armed with Knowledge)
In 1945, four out of five American newspapers were independently owned and published by local people with close ties to their communities. Those days, however, are gone. Most of the independent newspapers were bought out or driven out of business by the mid-1970s. Today less than 20 percent of the country's 1,483 papers are independently owned; the rest belong to multi-newspaper chains. Only 104 of the total number have circulations of more than 100,000. Only a handful are large enough to maintain independent reporting staffs outside their own communities; the rest must depend on information passed to them from conglomerates like the Associated Press for all of their national and international news.
The suppression of competition and the establishment of monopolies on the dissemination of news and opinion have characterized the rise of the Industrial Corporatists' ability to control the flow of information Americans read, listen to and watch. This results in their ability to use the press as an unopposed mouthpiece of corporate policy and agenda. Three of the most prestigious and influential examples are: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. These three mega-goliaths dominate America's financial and political capitals, and are the newspapers that set the trends and guidelines for nearly all the others. They are the ones that decide what is news and what isn't; they originate the news, and the others merely copy it.
Government deregulation of the telecommunications industry has resulted in an accelerated wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions that have produced a handful of multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates. The largest of these conglomerates have consumed their competition, almost tripling in size during the 1990s.
Whenever you watch television, whether from a local broadcasting station or via cable or a satellite dish; whenever you see a feature film in a theater or at home; whenever you listen to the radio or to recorded music; whenever you read a newspaper, book, or magazine - it is very likely the information or entertainment you receive was produced and/or distributed by one of these few mega-media companies.
The largest media conglomerate today is Jewish-owned AOL-Time Warner, created when America Online bought Time Warner for $160 billion in 2000. Before the merger, AOL was the largest Internet service provider in America. Time Warner, with 1997 revenues of more than $13 billion, was the second largest of the international media leviathans when it was bought by AOL. Time Warner subsidiary HBO is the country's largest pay-TV cable network. Until the purchase in May 1998 Warner Music was America's largest record company, with 50 labels, the biggest of which is Warner Brothers Records (WEA).
Disney, also Jewish owned, is the second-largest media conglomerate today, and the empire includes several television production companies (Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Television) and cable networks with more than 100 million subscribers altogether. It also has a major presence in radio, owning endless amounts of radio stations nationally abroad. As for feature films, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, under Walt Disney Studios, includes Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures and the lucrative Miramax Films.
The Disney Company also acquired Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., which owns the ABC Television Network, which in turn owns 10 TV stations outright in such big markets as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston. In addition, it has 225 affiliated stations in the United States and is a partial owner of several European TV companies.
This empire is no mere Mickey Mouse operation. In addition to its vast entertainment complex, Disney operates 660 retail stores worldwide (the figure is for April 2000). And, incidentally, it is also invested in crude oil and natural gas exploitation.
On the Internet, Disney runs Buena Vista Internet Group, ABC Internet Group, ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, Oscar.com, Mr. Showbiz, Disney Online, Disney's Daily Blast, Disney.com, Family.com, ESPN Internet Group, ESPN.sportzone.com, Soccernet.com, NFL.com, NBA.com, Infoseek (partial ownership), and Disney Interactive.
The third largest mega-media corporation in the country is Viacom (I have merged details from this section into the first article, about Redstone and Bronfman Jr.'s media empires).
Number four on the list is Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which owns Fox Television Network, 20th Century Fox Films and Fox 2000. News Corporation rakes in over $11 billion in annual revenue. It is the only other media company with profits anywhere close to those of the top three media conglomerates (more).
