Media Empires

MEDIA EMPIRES / LARGEST MEDIA CONGLOMERATES / MEDIA TYCOONS

The Walt Disney Company

Key people

(Chairman) Robert (Bob) Iger

(CEO) Bob Chapek, (CFO) Christine M. McCarthy

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, State Street, BlackRock, Northern Trust, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price

Comcast

Key people

(Chairman, President & CEO) Brian L. Roberts

(CFO) Michael J. Cavanagh

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, Capital Group, State Street, BlackRock

Viacom CBS

Key people

(Chairman) Shari Redstone

(President & CEO) Robert Marc Bakish

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, State Street, Nomura, Capital Group, BlackRock

Netflix

Key people

(Founder & Co-CEO) Reed Hastings

(Co-CEO) Ted Sarandos, (CFO) Spencer Neumann, (COO) Greg Peters

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, State Street, BlackRock

AT & T

Key people

(Shareholder) Randall L. Stephenson

(CEO) John Stankey, (Chairman) William E. Kennard, (CFO) Pascal Desroches

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, BlackRock State Street, Capital Group, Northern Trust, Norges Bank, Morgan Stanley, Dimensional Fund Advisors, BlackRock – (Individual stakeholders) Randall L. Stephenson, John J. Stephens, William A. Blase

Fox Corporation

Key people

(Chairman) Rupert Murdoch

(CEO) Lachlan Murdoch, (COO) John P. Nallen

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Dodge & Cox, BlackRock

Hearst

Key people

(Chairman) William R. Hearst III

(President & CEO) Steven R. Swartz, (Vice Chairman) Frank A. Bennack Jr., (COO) Mark E. Aldam

Among major shareholders

100% owned by the Hearst family, managed by a board of trustees

Discovery

Key people

(President & CEO) David M. Zaslav

(Chairman) Robert J. Miron

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, State Street, BlackRock, JPMorgan, Paulson

Bloomberg

Key people

(Co-founder & CEO) Michael Bloomberg

(Chairman) Peter Grauer, (Co-founders) Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar

Among major shareholders

Michael Bloomberg

Verizon

Key people

(Chairman & CEO) Hans Vestberg
(CFO) Matthew Ellis

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, Capital Group

Advance Publications

Key people

(President) Steven Newhouse
(CEO) Robert Sauerberg, (CFO) Thomas Summer, (Board) Donald Newhouse

Among major shareholders

A privately held company owned by brothers Si and Donald Newhouse

The New York Times

Key people

(Chairman) Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

(President & CEO) Meredith Levien, (CFO) Roland Caputo

Among major shareholders

Sulzberger family, Carlos Slim, Vanguard, Capital Group, Darsana Capital Partners, Artisan Partners, Jackson Square Partners, Farallon Capital Management

DMGT

Key people

(Chairman) Lord Rothermere

(CEO) Paul Zwillenberg, (CFO) Tim Collier

Among major shareholders

Rothermere family, Capital Group, Artemis Investment, Threadneedle Asset Management, Lindsell, J.O. Hambro, Tweedy Browne

Cox Enterprises

Key people

(Chairman) James C. Kennedy

(President & CEO) Alex Taylor, (Vice President & CFO) Dallas Clement, (COO) Jill Campbell

Among major shareholders

A family-owned company (Kennedy family)

Access Industries

Key people

(Founder and Chairman) Len Blavatnik

(Vice Chairman) Guillaume d’Hauteville

Among major shareholders

Blavatnik Family

Hasbro

Key people

(Shareholder, member of the founding Hassenfeld family) Alan Hassenfeld

(Chairman & CEO) Brian Goldner, (Vice Chairman & CFO) Deborah Thomas

Among major shareholders

Vanguard, Capital Group, Southeastern Asset Management, Alan Hassenfeld, Janus Capital Management, State Street

Amblin Partners (DreamWorks)

Key people

(Chairman) Steven Spielberg

(CEO) Jeff Small, (Producer) Kristie Macosko Krieger, (COO) Chris Floyd, (CFO) Chris Leotis

Among major shareholders

Reliance Entertainment, Entertainment One, Alibaba Pictures, Universal Pictures

Liberty Media

Key people

(Chairman) John C. Malone

(President & CEO) Gregory Maffei, (Corporate Development) Albert Edwin Rosenthaler, (CFO) Brian Wendling

Among major shareholders

John C. Malone