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Bertelsmann
2011 Revenue: $20.7 billion
Company Overview: Bertelsmann AG is one of the world’s largest media companies, with substantial holdings in Europe and North America, including book publisher Random House, international radio and television station owner RTL Group and media firm Gruner + Jahr.
TV: RTL Group (Europe's largest broadcasting and production company, which controls TV and radio stations in 10 different countries, along with content production)
Print: Random House (with over 200 imprints in 15 countries, including the Ballantine Publishing Group, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Broadway, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, Pantheon, Random House U.K., Transworld, Sudamericana, C. Bertelsmann, Karl Blessing Verlag, Goldmann, Siedler Verlag, Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag, Plaza & Janes (50 percent), Grijalbo Mondadori (50 percent), the Knopf Publishing Group, the RH Adult Trade Publishing Group, RH Audio, RH Children’s Books, RH Direct, Inc., the RH Information Group, RH International, RH Large Print, RH Value Publishing, and Waterbrook Press; Gruner + Jahr (285 print titles in 20 countries)
Other: Ava_to (outsourcing provider)
Gannett Co.
2011 Revenue: $5.2 billion
Company Overview: International media company focusing on broadcast TV, print and Web content
TV: Twenty-three television stations
Online Holdings: CareerBuilder.com; MomsLikeMe.com; ShopLocal.com; Cars.com; Apartments.com; CareerSite.biz; Livestream.com; Metromix.com; Ongo, Inc.; Reviewed.com; SavvyShopperDeals.com; Homefinder.com; BNOT.com; Nurse.com
Print: USA Today; over 600 magazines and other non-daily print publications; Clipper Magazine; Mint Magazine; Gannett Government Media; Gannett Education; Newsquest (U.K.)
Other: Gannett Healthcare Group; PointRoll; Planet Discover; Schedule Star; Classified Ventures; QuadrantONE; Fantasy Sports Ventures; Captivate; Pearls Review; Gannett Offset
The Hearst Corporation
2009 Revenue: $3.9 billion
Company Overview: The Hearst Corporation is a media conglomerate that controls or has ownership stakes in newspaper, magazine, television, cable network and Internet properties.
TV: Thirty-one television stations and A&E (42 percent stake); the History Channel (42 percent stake); the Biography Channel (42 percent stake); Lifetime (42 percent stake); the Crime and Investigation Channel (42 percent stake); Cosmopolitan TV; ESPN Networks (20 percent stake); ESPN Radio (20 percent stake); Current (minority stake); Reed Brennan Media Associates
Radio: Two radio stations
Online Holdings: Kaboodle.com; Manilla.com; RealAge.com; seattlepi.com; Brightcove.com (minority stake); BuzzFeed.com (minority stake); DoubleFusion.com (minority stake); Drugstore.com; ELNK (minority stake); Gazillion Entertainment (minority stake); Idilia (minority stake); IGG (minority stake); Mobitv (minority stake); the News Market (minority stake); Pandora (minority stake); Suzanne's Files (minority stake); TurnHere (minority stake); Voxpop.tv (minority stake); Wideorbit.com (minority stake); WorldwideBiggies.com (minority stake); Ugo.com; Electronic Engineers Master
Print: Twenty U.S. magazines (including Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan,Country Living, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, O,Popular Mechanics, Redbook, Seventeen and Woman's Day); King Features (syndicator of newspaper comic strips including Blondie,Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Dennis the Menace,Popeye); Black Book; Hearst Business Media (Electronics Products Magazine; Floor Covering Weekly); IDG/Hearst; Hearst Books; Hearst News Service
Entertainment: Hearst Entertainment
Other: 1-800-Free-411 (minority stake); Hearst Tower; Hearst Ranch; Hearst Service Center; First Databank; Fitch Ratings; FleetCross; Map of Medicine; MOTOR Information Systems; Stocknet; Veretech; Zynx Health; LocalEdge; Metrix4Media; CDS Global; CMG; COMAG; iCrossing; PPSB
News Corp.
2011 Revenue: $33.4 billion
Company Overview: News Corporation’s media holdings include the FOX Broadcasting Company; television and cable networks such as Fox, Fox Business Channel, National Geographic and FX; print publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post andTV Guide; the magazines Barron’s and SmartMoney; book publisher HarperCollins; film production companies 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios; numerous websites including MarketWatch.com; and non-media holdings including the National Rugby League.
TV: Twenty-seven television stations and FOX Broadcasting Company (FOX Network, MyNetworkTV); FOX News; FOX Business; FOX News Radio Network; FOX News Talk Channel; FSN (12 regional sports networks); FX; SPEED; FUEL TV; Fox College Sports; Fox Movie Channel; Fox Soccer Channel; Fox Soccer Plus; Fox Pan American Sports; Fox Deportes; Big Ten Network; National Geographic U.S.; Nat Geo Adventure; Nat Geo Music; Nat Geo Wild; Fox International Channels; Utilisima; Fox Crime; NEXT; FOX History & Entertainment; the Voyage Channel; STAR World; STAR Movies; NGC Network International; NGC Network Latin America; LAPTV; Movie City; City Mix; City Family; City Stars; City Vibe; the Film Zone; Cinecanal; Elite Sports Limited; BabyTV; STAR India; STAR Taiwan; ESPN STAR Sports; Shine Limited
Online Holdings: Hulu.com (32 percent minority share)
Print: HarperCollins Publishers; the New York Post; the Daily News; News International (the Times, the Sunday Times; the Sun); News Limited (146 newspapers in Australia); Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal,Barron's, SmartMoney, Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Local Media, Dow Jones VentureSource)
Telecom: Satellite: BSkyB (39 percent minority share); SKY Italia
Entertainment: Fox Filmed Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox Television; Twentieth Television; Fox Television Studios
Other: Marketing/advertising: News America Marketing Group; News Outdoor; Fox Library; IGN Entertainment, Inc.; Making Fun, Inc.; Wireless Generation
Tribune Company
2010 Revenue: $3.2 billion
Company Overview: Tribune owns 23 TV stations, one radio station, 12 daily newspapers, numerous magazines and other media properties.
TV: Twenty-three television stations and the Food Network (30 percent stake); WGN America; CLTV Chicagoland; Tribune Entertainment
Radio: One radio station
Online Holdings: Zap2it.com; TribuneDirect.com; MetroMix.com (minority stake); CareerBuilder.com (minority stake); Apartments.com (minority stake); Cars.com (minority stake); ForSaleByOwner.com; HomeFinder.com (minority stake); Healthkey.com; Topix.net (minority stake)
Print: Twelve daily newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times, theChicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant); Chicago Magazine
Other: Tribune Media Services; Classified Ventures (minority stake)
Washington Post Co.
2011 Revenue: $4.2 billion
Company Overview: The Washington Post Company is engaged in print and online publishing of newspapers and magazines, television broadcasting and cable television systems. The company also owns Kaplan, Inc., which provides higher education services, test preparation, language instruction and professional training.
TV: Six television stations
Print: The Washington Post; the Herald; the Washington Post News Service; Post-Newsweek Media; Greater Washington Publishing; the Slate Group (Slate, the Root, Foreign Policy); El Tiempo Latino; Express Publications (Express, ExpressNightOut.com); Social Code; Classified Ventures (17 percent stake)
Telecommunications: Cable ONE, Inc.
Other: Kaplan (Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan University, Kaplan Test Preparation, Kaplan International, Kaplan Ventures, Kaplan EduNeering, Kaplan Learning Technologies, the Kidum Group, Kaplan Continuing Education, Kaplan Global Solutions, Colloquy, Kaplan Virtual Education and Kaplan VC LLC); Avenue 100 Media Solutions, Inc.; Bowater Mersey Paper Company (49 percent stake)
Bertelsmann
2011 Revenue: $20.7 billion
Company Overview: Bertelsmann AG is one of the world’s largest media companies, with substantial holdings in Europe and North America, including book publisher Random House, international radio and television station owner RTL Group and media firm Gruner + Jahr.
TV: RTL Group (Europe's largest broadcasting and production company, which controls TV and radio stations in 10 different countries, along with content production)
Print: Random House (with over 200 imprints in 15 countries, including the Ballantine Publishing Group, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Broadway, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, Pantheon, Random House U.K., Transworld, Sudamericana, C. Bertelsmann, Karl Blessing Verlag, Goldmann, Siedler Verlag, Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag, Plaza & Janes (50 percent), Grijalbo Mondadori (50 percent), the Knopf Publishing Group, the RH Adult Trade Publishing Group, RH Audio, RH Children’s Books, RH Direct, Inc., the RH Information Group, RH International, RH Large Print, RH Value Publishing, and Waterbrook Press; Gruner + Jahr (285 print titles in 20 countries)
Other: Ava_to (outsourcing provider)
Gannett Co.
2011 Revenue: $5.2 billion
Company Overview: International media company focusing on broadcast TV, print and Web content
TV: Twenty-three television stations
Online Holdings: CareerBuilder.com; MomsLikeMe.com; ShopLocal.com; Cars.com; Apartments.com; CareerSite.biz; Livestream.com; Metromix.com; Ongo, Inc.; Reviewed.com; SavvyShopperDeals.com; Homefinder.com; BNOT.com; Nurse.com
Print: USA Today; over 600 magazines and other non-daily print publications; Clipper Magazine; Mint Magazine; Gannett Government Media; Gannett Education; Newsquest (U.K.)
Other: Gannett Healthcare Group; PointRoll; Planet Discover; Schedule Star; Classified Ventures; QuadrantONE; Fantasy Sports Ventures; Captivate; Pearls Review; Gannett Offset
The Hearst Corporation
2009 Revenue: $3.9 billion
Company Overview: The Hearst Corporation is a media conglomerate that controls or has ownership stakes in newspaper, magazine, television, cable network and Internet properties.
TV: Thirty-one television stations and A&E (42 percent stake); the History Channel (42 percent stake); the Biography Channel (42 percent stake); Lifetime (42 percent stake); the Crime and Investigation Channel (42 percent stake); Cosmopolitan TV; ESPN Networks (20 percent stake); ESPN Radio (20 percent stake); Current (minority stake); Reed Brennan Media Associates
Radio: Two radio stations
Online Holdings: Kaboodle.com; Manilla.com; RealAge.com; seattlepi.com; Brightcove.com (minority stake); BuzzFeed.com (minority stake); DoubleFusion.com (minority stake); Drugstore.com; ELNK (minority stake); Gazillion Entertainment (minority stake); Idilia (minority stake); IGG (minority stake); Mobitv (minority stake); the News Market (minority stake); Pandora (minority stake); Suzanne's Files (minority stake); TurnHere (minority stake); Voxpop.tv (minority stake); Wideorbit.com (minority stake); WorldwideBiggies.com (minority stake); Ugo.com; Electronic Engineers Master
Print: Twenty U.S. magazines (including Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan,Country Living, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, O,Popular Mechanics, Redbook, Seventeen and Woman's Day); King Features (syndicator of newspaper comic strips including Blondie,Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Dennis the Menace,Popeye); Black Book; Hearst Business Media (Electronics Products Magazine; Floor Covering Weekly); IDG/Hearst; Hearst Books; Hearst News Service
Entertainment: Hearst Entertainment
Other: 1-800-Free-411 (minority stake); Hearst Tower; Hearst Ranch; Hearst Service Center; First Databank; Fitch Ratings; FleetCross; Map of Medicine; MOTOR Information Systems; Stocknet; Veretech; Zynx Health; LocalEdge; Metrix4Media; CDS Global; CMG; COMAG; iCrossing; PPSB
News Corp.
2011 Revenue: $33.4 billion
Company Overview: News Corporation’s media holdings include the FOX Broadcasting Company; television and cable networks such as Fox, Fox Business Channel, National Geographic and FX; print publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post andTV Guide; the magazines Barron’s and SmartMoney; book publisher HarperCollins; film production companies 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios; numerous websites including MarketWatch.com; and non-media holdings including the National Rugby League.
TV: Twenty-seven television stations and FOX Broadcasting Company (FOX Network, MyNetworkTV); FOX News; FOX Business; FOX News Radio Network; FOX News Talk Channel; FSN (12 regional sports networks); FX; SPEED; FUEL TV; Fox College Sports; Fox Movie Channel; Fox Soccer Channel; Fox Soccer Plus; Fox Pan American Sports; Fox Deportes; Big Ten Network; National Geographic U.S.; Nat Geo Adventure; Nat Geo Music; Nat Geo Wild; Fox International Channels; Utilisima; Fox Crime; NEXT; FOX History & Entertainment; the Voyage Channel; STAR World; STAR Movies; NGC Network International; NGC Network Latin America; LAPTV; Movie City; City Mix; City Family; City Stars; City Vibe; the Film Zone; Cinecanal; Elite Sports Limited; BabyTV; STAR India; STAR Taiwan; ESPN STAR Sports; Shine Limited
Online Holdings: Hulu.com (32 percent minority share)
Print: HarperCollins Publishers; the New York Post; the Daily News; News International (the Times, the Sunday Times; the Sun); News Limited (146 newspapers in Australia); Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal,Barron's, SmartMoney, Factiva, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Local Media, Dow Jones VentureSource)
Telecom: Satellite: BSkyB (39 percent minority share); SKY Italia
Entertainment: Fox Filmed Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox Television; Twentieth Television; Fox Television Studios
Other: Marketing/advertising: News America Marketing Group; News Outdoor; Fox Library; IGN Entertainment, Inc.; Making Fun, Inc.; Wireless Generation
Tribune Company
2010 Revenue: $3.2 billion
Company Overview: Tribune owns 23 TV stations, one radio station, 12 daily newspapers, numerous magazines and other media properties.
TV: Twenty-three television stations and the Food Network (30 percent stake); WGN America; CLTV Chicagoland; Tribune Entertainment
Radio: One radio station
Online Holdings: Zap2it.com; TribuneDirect.com; MetroMix.com (minority stake); CareerBuilder.com (minority stake); Apartments.com (minority stake); Cars.com (minority stake); ForSaleByOwner.com; HomeFinder.com (minority stake); Healthkey.com; Topix.net (minority stake)
Print: Twelve daily newspapers (including the Los Angeles Times, theChicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant); Chicago Magazine
Other: Tribune Media Services; Classified Ventures (minority stake)
Washington Post Co.
2011 Revenue: $4.2 billion
Company Overview: The Washington Post Company is engaged in print and online publishing of newspapers and magazines, television broadcasting and cable television systems. The company also owns Kaplan, Inc., which provides higher education services, test preparation, language instruction and professional training.
TV: Six television stations
Print: The Washington Post; the Herald; the Washington Post News Service; Post-Newsweek Media; Greater Washington Publishing; the Slate Group (Slate, the Root, Foreign Policy); El Tiempo Latino; Express Publications (Express, ExpressNightOut.com); Social Code; Classified Ventures (17 percent stake)
Telecommunications: Cable ONE, Inc.
Other: Kaplan (Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan University, Kaplan Test Preparation, Kaplan International, Kaplan Ventures, Kaplan EduNeering, Kaplan Learning Technologies, the Kidum Group, Kaplan Continuing Education, Kaplan Global Solutions, Colloquy, Kaplan Virtual Education and Kaplan VC LLC); Avenue 100 Media Solutions, Inc.; Bowater Mersey Paper Company (49 percent stake)