Big Six

The Big Six media industries consist of:

• Comcast- Universal Studios, DreamWorks, NBC.
• Disney- Disney, ESPN, Marvel.
• TimeWarner- Warner Bros, Cartoon Network, DC.
• News Corp- Fox, ITV, National Geographic.
• National Amusements- Paramount, Nickelodeon.
• Sony- Sony, Olympus, Tristar.

The total worth of all these companies is a staggering total of $430 billion.

It will become the Big Five because Disney is buying out News Corp.

Comcast-

• Produced Xfinity Wifi network as a new brand to the Comcast family.
• Largest network in the country with 350,000 hotspots.

Disney-

• Disney pays a staggering amount of $71.3 billion to acquire News Corp and to receive all of their assets.

TimeWarner

• Warner Bros studios continue to produce popular and trending films to this day and recently raked in $5 billion in box office receipts alone.

News Corp

• The most recent thing that they have done is allow Disney to buy out all of their company in order to make a hefty return on their profits and to save the company from going bust.

National Amusements

• The Head of National amusements (Summer Redstone)  and head of CBS (Joseph lanniello) are in a financial and court battle to take control of National Amusements.

Sony

• Sony are continuing to push to create top movies through its company Tristar and also to produce technology such as the Playstation to compete with its rival Xbox.