Jeff Bewkes is Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc. He was elected
Chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2009, having served on
the Board since January 2007. He was elected CEO of the Company in
January 2008.
Prior to being named Chairman and CEO, Mr. Bewkes served as Time
Warner's President and COO from January 2006 to December 2007 and as
Chairman of the Entertainment and Networks group from 2002 to 2005.
Before joining the corporate management of Time Warner, Mr. Bewkes
served as Chairman and CEO of HBO since 1995, and as President and COO
of HBO from September 1991 to May 1995.
Mr. Bewkes serves on the Boards of Yale University, the Partnership
for New York City and on the advisory boards for Stanford Graduate
School of Business, Yale School of Management, the American Museum of
Natural History, The Creative Coalition and The Paley Center for
Media.
Mr. Bewkes has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business.
http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/bios/robert_iger.html
Robert A. Iger
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company
Robert A. Iger is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt
Disney Company. Mr. Iger, the sixth CEO in The Walt Disney Company's
86-year history, was appointed to this post on October 1, 2005 after
the company's board of directors elected him to succeed Michael D.
Eisner in March, 2005.
Previously, Mr. Iger served as President and Chief Operating Officer
of The Walt Disney Company, a position he had held since January,
2000. In this role, he partnered with Mr. Eisner in overseeing all
aspects of the company's worldwide operations including its filmed
entertainment, theme parks and resorts, media networks and consumer
products businesses. Mr. Iger also became a member of Disney's board
of directors at this time.
Mr. Iger began his career at ABC in 1974. Throughout his tenure at the
company, Mr. Iger has held a series of increasingly responsible senior
management positions, including serving as President and Chief
Operating Officer of Capital Cities/ABC, where he guided the complex
merger of ABC with The Walt Disney Company. During Mr. Iger's years
with ABC, he oversaw its broadcast television network and station,
cable television, radio and publishing businesses, which includes the
market leading brands of ABC, ESPN, Lifetime, A&E and The History
Channel.
He officially joined the Disney senior management team in 1996 as
Chairman of the Disney-owned ABC Group and in 1999, was given the
additional responsibility of President, Walt Disney International.
Mr. Iger is a member of the board of directors for the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum and Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts, Inc. He serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Elizabeth
Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/rupert-murdoch.htm
Rupert Murdoch Biography (Keith Rupert Murdoch) : CEO of News
Corporation - Media & Entertainment Company
Famous for : Building one of the largest media empires in the world
with interests in television, film, pay TV, the Internet, newspapers,
and publishing.
Murdoch details : Born - March 11, 1931 Melbourne, Australia / Lives -
New York, United States of America
More Mordoch : Rupert Murdoch Companies / News Corporation -
MySpace.com Profile - Wendi Deng - News Corporation to be Carbon
Neutral - Global Warming Speech - Lachlan Murdoch Quotes
::: Woopidoo> Business Masters Home> Rupert Murdoch
Biography - Information
Rupert Murdoch has grown the giant mammoth of a media company "The
News Corporation" into one of the largest and most influential media
groups in the world from a small town newspaper in Australia. Murdoch
wields considerable power with his global media company and is often
wooed by politicians to persuade him to favorably cover their
campaigns. His empire covers television, filmed entertainment, cable
network programming, book publishing, direct broadcast satellite
television, magazines and newspapers operating in the United States,
Australia, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia and the
Pacific Basin.
Murdoch was born in Melbourne, Victoria - Australia on the 11th of
March, 1931. He grew up in Australia and studied at the Oxford
University in the United Kingdom. He then worked briefly at the "Daily
Express" newspaper before taking the reigns from his father's (Sir
Keith Murdoch) newspaper in Adelaide Australia called "the Adelaide
News".
The Adelaide News was Rupert Murdochs base to launch into the global
media empire he went on to create. He made the small town newspaper
profitable enough to move from Adelaide and begin his continual quest
to acquire companies, grow them or create them.
Murdoch acquired some of the most popular and widely read newspapers
in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. His
rise through the ranks often caused controversy and outrage because of
his ruthless management style and desire to succeed. In an attempt to
flush out the corruption, waste, overstaffing and theft that
flourished in his London based operations Murdoch had to confront the
workers union. His actions caused many protests and petitions against
Murdoch and his companies (one magazine article gave him the nick name
of "The Dirty Digger") but his commitment to cut costs and increase
profits did eventually win out in the end.
"I'm a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be
successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar
tissue around the place." Rupert Murdoch
In an effort to expand his television interests further in the United
States Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985. Throughout
the 80s his Australian listed Media company the News Corporation
continued to grow rapidly, acquiring interests in newspapers,
magazine, book publishing, television stations, film and more.
The rapid growth of News Corporation and expansion into satellite TV
also brought massive loans. During a downturn in the early 90s Murdoch
and his media empire had difficulty paying its bills. Many of his
American magazine interests were sold to pay off some of the loans and
things eventually turned around for Murdoch.
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It
will be the fast beating the slow." Rupert Murdoch
The slight pause in growth in the early 90s quickly ended and the
media mogul continued his path of of acquisition and growth. The
company owns some of the largest and most popular brands in many areas
of the media industry including:
20th Century Fox, Fox Television Studios, DIRECTV, Harper Collins
Publishers, Festival Records and the New York Post.
See a listing of more News Corporation Companies here..
Rupert Murdoch divorced his wife (and the mother to four of his
children) Anna Murdoch in 1998 after more than 30 years of marriage.
He then went on to marry a member of his staff in the Asian operations
(Star TV) of News Corporation. Wendi Deng is roughly 40 years younger
than Murdoch. Two of his sons Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch did
work in their father's company and hold important positions, until
Lachlan left.
The effect that Rupert Murdoch has had on the media and entertainment
industry is massive. Along the way he created an empire that has gone
from strength to strength, securing positions in every important media
and country. Murdoch continues to push his News Corporation company
forward and is leading the way into the lucrative Chinese market, that
has up until now, been out of reach for Western media companies. With
his great success and power he has also created a lot of critics, but
Murdoch continues to brush them all aside and is happily living his
life with his young wife and is continuing to grow his global media
empire.
In 2007 at the age of 76, Rupert Murdoch has showed that he is still
open to change. The media mogul released an ambitious plan to to
tackle the problems of global warming by making his global corporation
carbon neutral. He told 47,000 employees that they will not only cut
their energy use, but that the word on climate change will also be put
out through his many media outlets. Read more about the News
Corporation energy initiative or see the full speech given by Rupert
Murdoch in May 2007.
http://topics.wsj.com/person/d/philippe-p-dauman/501
Philippe Dauman
President & chief executive officer, Viacom Inc.
Mr. Dauman has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since
September 5, 2006 and joined our Board of Directors as of January 1,
2006, having previously served as a director of the former Viacom Inc.
since 1987. Prior to joining Viacom, he was Co-Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of DND Capital Partners, L.L.C., a private equity
firm specializing in media and telecommunications investments that he
co-founded with Mr. Dooley. Prior to that, Mr. Dauman held several
positions at the former Viacom Inc., which he first joined in 1993,
including Deputy Chairman, member of its Executive Committee and
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Mr. Dauman is
also a director of National Amusements, Inc. and Lafarge S.A. He also
serves on the Board of Trustees for The Paley Center for Media and the
Dean's Council of Columbia University Law School.
On Oct 6, 11:40 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [[ Now you know who beings us all that trash. ]]
>
> *Who Owns The Media?
> **The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch,
> Hear and Read
> **Economic Collapse Blog <http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/>
>
> *Back in 1983, approximately 50
> corporations<http://www.corporations.org/media/>controlled the vast
> majority of all news media in the United States. Today,
> ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six
> incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control
> most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television
> networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing
> houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most
> Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless
> hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans
> don't really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The
> truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are
> constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average
> American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans
> begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching
> or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely
> addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and
> entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands
> each year.
>
> The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time
> Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation
> and NBC Universal. Together, the "big six" absolutely dominate news and
> entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that
> the "big six" do not completely control are becoming increasingly
> concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations
> across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are
> increasingly dominating the Internet.
>
> But it is the "big six" that are the biggest concerns. When you control what
> Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what
> they think. They don't call it "programming" for nothing.
>
> Back in 1983 it was bad enough that about 50 corporations dominated U.S.
> media. But since that time, power over the media has rapidly become
> concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people....
>
> *In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the
> biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. … [I]n 1987, the
> fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. … [I]n 1990, the twenty-nine had
> shrunk to twenty three. … [I]n 1997, the biggest firms numbered ten and
> involved the $19 billion Disney-ABC deal, at the time the biggest media
> merger ever. … [In 2000] AOL Time Warner's $350 billion merged corporation
> [was] more than 1,000 times larger [than the biggest deal of 1983].
>
> *~ Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press,
> 2000), pp. xx–xxi
>
> Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the
> information in the chart below comes from
> mediaowners.com<http://www.mediaowners.com/company/cbscorporation.html>.
> The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that
> these six behemoths actually own....
>
> *Time Warner
>
> *Home Box Office (HBO)
> Time Inc.
> Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
> Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
> CW Network (partial ownership)
> TMZ
> New Line Cinema
> Time Warner Cable
> Cinemax
> Cartoon Network
> TBS
> TNT
> America Online
> MapQuest
> Moviefone
> Castle Rock
> Sports Illustrated
> Fortune
> Marie Claire
> People Magazine
>
> *Walt Disney
>
> *ABC Television Network
> Disney Publishing
> ESPN Inc.
> Disney Channel
> SOAPnet
> A&E
> Lifetime
> Buena Vista Home Entertainment
> Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
> Buena Vista Records
> Disney Records
> Hollywood Records
> Miramax Films
> Touchstone Pictures
> Walt Disney Pictures
> Pixar Animation Studios
> Buena Vista Games
> Hyperion Books
>
> *Viacom
>
> *Paramount Pictures
> Paramount Home Entertainment
> Black Entertainment Television (BET)
> Comedy Central
> Country Music Television (CMT)
> Logo
> MTV
> MTV Canada
> MTV2
> Nick Magazine
> Nick at Nite
> Nick Jr.
> Nickelodeon
> Noggin
> Spike TV
> The Movie Channel
> TV Land
> VH1
>
> *News Corporation
>
> *Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
> Fox Television Stations
> The New York Post
> Fox Searchlight Pictures
> Beliefnet
> Fox Business Network
> Fox Kids Europe
> Fox News Channel
> Fox Sports Net
> Fox Television Network
> FX
> My Network TV
> MySpace
> News Limited News
> Phoenix InfoNews Channel
> Phoenix Movies Channel
> Sky PerfecTV
> Speed Channel
> STAR TV India
> STAR TV Taiwan
> STAR World
> Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
> Times Literary Supplement Magazine
> Times of London
> 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
> 20th Century Fox International
> 20th Century Fox Studios
> 20th Century Fox Television
> BSkyB
> DIRECTV
> The Wall Street Journal
> Fox Broadcasting Company
> Fox Interactive Media
> FOXTEL
> HarperCollins Publishers
> The National Geographic Channel
> National Rugby League
> News Interactive
> News Outdoor
> Radio Veronica
> ReganBooks
> Sky Italia
> Sky Radio Denmark
> Sky Radio Germany
> Sky Radio Netherlands
> STAR
> Zondervan
>
> *CBS Corporation
>
> *CBS News
> CBS Sports
> CBS Television Network
> CNET
> Showtime
> TV.com
> CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
> CBS Consumer Products
> CBS Outdoor
> CW Network (50% ownership)
> Infinity Broadcasting
> Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
> Westwood One Radio Network
>
> *NBC Universal
>
> *Bravo
> CNBC
> NBC News
> MSNBC
> NBC Sports
> NBC Television Network
> Oxygen
> SciFi Magazine
> Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
> Telemundo
> USA Network
> Weather Channel
> Focus Features
> NBC Universal Television Distribution
> NBC Universal Television Studio
> Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
> Trio
> Universal Parks & Resorts
> Universal Pictures
> Universal Studio Home Video
>
> These gigantic media corporations do not exist to objectively tell the truth
> to the American people. Rather, the primary purpose of their existence is to
> make money.
>
> These gigantic media corporations are not going to do anything to threaten
> their relationships with their biggest advertisers (such as the largest
> pharmaceutical companies that literally spend billions on advertising), and
> one way or another these gigantic media corporations are always going to
> express the ideological viewpoints of their owners.
>
> Fortunately, an increasing number of Americans are starting to wake up and
> are realizing that the mainstream media should not be trusted. According to
> a new poll just released by
> Gallup<http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/Distrust-Media-Edges-Record-High.aspx>,
> the number of Americans that have little to no trust in the mainstream media
> (57%) is at an all-time high.
>
> That is one reason why we have seen the alternative media experience such
> rapid growth over the past few years. The mainstream media has been losing
> credibility at a staggering rate, and Americans are starting to look
> elsewhere for the truth about what is really going on.
>
> Do you think that anyone in the mainstream news would actually tell you that
> the Federal Reserve is bad for
> America<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/11-reasons-why-the-federa...>or
> that we are facing a horrific derivatives
> bubble<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-horrific-derivatives-...>that
> could destroy the entire world financial system? Do you think that
> anyone in the mainstream media would actually tell you the truth about
> the deindustrialization
> of America<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/19-facts-about-the-deindu...>or
> the truth about the voracious
> greed of Goldman
> Sachs<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-goldman-sachs-made-te...>
> ?
>
> Sure there are a few courageous reporters in the mainstream media that
> manage to slip a few stories past their corporate bosses from time to time,
> but in general there is a very clear understanding that there are simply
> certain things that you just do not say in the mainstream news.
>
> But Americans are becoming increasingly hungry for the truth, and they are
> becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the dumbed down pablum that is
> passing as "hard hitting news" these days.
>
> So what do you think about the state of the mainstream media? Please feel
> free to leave a comment with your opinion below....
>
> *Reprinted with permission from the Economic Collapse
> Blog<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/>
> .
> *
>
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