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The Big Five of Commercial Media After a number of mergers and acquisitions five powerful media conglomerates lead the world's content production and distribution. They operate on an international basis with subsidiaries all around the globe and engage in every imaginable kind of media industry. Table: The World's Leading Media Companies Media Company 1998 Revenues (in US$) Property/Corporate Information AOL Time Warner (US) 26,838.000.000* http://www.timewarner.com/corp/about/timewarnerinc/corporate/index.html Disney (US) 22,976.000.000 http://www.disney.com Bertelsmann (GER) 16,389.000.000 http://www.bertelsmann.com/facts/report/report.cfm News Corporation (AUS) 12,841.000.000 http://www.newscorp.com/public/cor/cor_m.htm Viacom (US) 12,100.000.000 http://www.viacom.com/global.tin (* Revenues of Time Warner only (merger with AOL took place in January 2000) browse Report: The content industry     The Concept of the Public Sphere  ... -3   Centralization of the Content Industry -2   Highlights on the Way to a Global Commercial Media Oligopoly: 1980s -1   Highlights on the Way to a Global Commercial Media Oligopoly: 1990s 0   The Big Five of Commercial Media +1   AOL Time Warner +2   Extract of AOL Time Warner’s Content Production and Distribution Holdings +3   Disney      ... Digital Commercial Content  RESEARCH MATRIX