media conglomerate
Cross-platform media giant
A media conglomerate is a large corporation that owns multiple media companies across different platforms—television networks, film studios, newspapers, streaming services, publishing houses.
The term often carries connotations of concentrated power over information and entertainment: Five media conglomerates control most of what Americans watch and read.
- radio stationFacility transmitting audio programming
- subsidiaryOf lesser importance
- big sixCarnival betting game
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- spin offDerived work from original
oligopoly · revenue stream · merger · antitrust law · publishing house · broadcast · television network · cable news · vertical integration · cultural hegemony · market share · holding company · newsroom · news agency · deregulation · ad revenue · syndication · cross promotion
- media businessadvertising, ratings, subscriptions, revenue streams, monetization
- Megacorporationsmultinational, Fortune 500, tech giant, industrial giant, Google
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- media outletsNPR, newspaper, magazine, news channel, tv station
- PublishersSimon & Schuster, book publisher, Penguin Books, Penguin, Random House
media conglomeratestate media
Government-run news organizations
PBS · BBC · NPR · citizen journalism · public broadcasting
media conglomerateindependent press
Non-corporate publishing operation
grassroots media · alternative press · underground press · zine · alternative media
medium, media, immediate, mediator, mediate, mediation, intermediate, conglomerate, multimedia