Who Owns the Media?

Interactive Charts

These handy charts let you browse individual company holdings. To make it easy, we've divided them up by media sector:

  • The "Big Six" companies [0]
  • Cable providers [0]
  • Television networks & stations [0]
  • Print media [0]
  • Telecommunications [0]

    • Top 20 Lists

    Want to know who owns the most popular media outlets in the United States? Check out our lists of owners for the top 20:

  • Web sites [0]
  • Cable channels [0]
  • Daily newspapers [0]
  • Local TV stations [0]

    • Research and Reports

    We've put Big Media under the microscope, and what we've found might surprise you.

  • Out of the Picture: Minority & Female TV Station Ownership in the U.S. [1]
  • Off the Dial: Minority & Female Radio Station Ownership in the U.S. [2]
  • The Case Against Media Consolidation [3]
  • State of the News Media 2007 [4] (from PEJ)
  • The Cost of Cable [5] (from Common Cause)
  • The Politics and Policy of Media Ownership [6]

    • AT&T History

    This graphic [6] shows how much (or how little) things have changed since the government broke up Ma Bell.

    Source URL:
    http://www.freepress.net/resources/ownership

    Links:
    [1] http://www.stopbigmedia.com/files/out_of_the_picture.pdf
    [2] http://www.stopbigmedia.com/files/off_the_dial.pdf
    [3] http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=compendium
    [4] http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2007
    [5] http://www.freepress.net/files/cost_of_cable.pdf
    [6] http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/53/scott.pdf