GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated
1.1 million to GW Bush for his
2000 election campaign)
Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28%
of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today
Show, Nightly News with Tom
Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline
NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television;
MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet
news service (co-owned by NBC
and Microsoft); Court TV
(co-owned with Time Warner),
Bravo (50%), A&E (25%),
History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC means
Microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated
2.4 million to get George W.
bush elected.
Other Holdings:
* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces
turbines for nuclear reactors
and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military
hardware and nuclear power
equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems:
runs diesel and electric trains.
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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.
Westinghouse Electric Company,
part of the Nuclear Utilities
Business Group of British
Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
who's #1 on the Board of
Directors? None other than:
Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle
Group)
Television Holdings:
* CBS: includes 14 stations and
over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes,
48 hours, CBS Evening News with
Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up
to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The
Nashville Network, 2 regional
sports networks.
* Group W Satellite
Communications.
Other Holdings:
* Westinghouse Electric Company:
provides services to the nuclear
power industry.
* Westinghouse Government
Environmental Services Company:
disposes of nuclear and
hazardous wastes. Also operates
4 government-owned nuclear power
plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides
nuclear power plant design and
maintenance.
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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Television Holdings:
* Paramount Television, Spelling
Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime,
The Movie Channel, UPN (joint
owner),
Nickelodeon, Comedy Central,
Sundance Channel (joint owner),
Flix.
* 20 major market US stations.
Media Holdings:
* Paramount Pictures, Paramount
Home Video, Blockbuster Video,
Famous Players Theatres,
Paramount Parks.
* Simon
&
Schuster Publishing.
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DISNEY / ABC / CAP
(donated $640,000 to George W's
2000 campaign)
Television Holdings:
* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24%
of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time
Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good
Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television
(50%), as well as minority
holdings in A&E, History Channel
and E!
*
Disney Channel/Disney
Television, Touchtone
Television.
Media Holdings:
* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles
Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local
newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search
engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares)
crude oil and gas.
* All
Disney Theme Parks, Walt
Disney Cruise Lines.
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TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL
(donated 1.6 million to GW's
2000 campaign)
America Online (AOL) acquired
Time Warner–the largest merger
in corporate history.
Television Holdings:
* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS
Superstation, Turner Network
Television, Turner Classic
Movies, Warner Brothers
Television, Cartoon Network,
Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy
Central (50%), E! (49%), Court
TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems
in the US with an estimated 13
million subscribers.
Media Holdings:
* HBO Independent Productions,
Warner Home Video, New Line
Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney
Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra,
Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros.
Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop
(distribution) = the world’s
largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time,
Sports Illustrated, People, In
Style, Fortune, Book of the
Month Club, Entertainment
Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%),
and MAD Magazine.
Other Holdings:
* Sports: The Atlanta Braves,
The Atlanta Hawks, World
Championship Wrestling.
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NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX
NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch)
(donations see bottom note)
Television Holdings:
* Fox Television: includes 22
stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive
worldwide cable and satellite
networks include British Sky
Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany
(49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin
America; FOXTEL, Australia
(50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB,
India; Bahasa Programming Ltd.,
Indonesia (50%); and News
Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* The Golf Channel (33%).
MEDIA HOLDINGS:
* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox
Searchlight.
* 132 newspapers (113 in
Australia alone) including the
New York Post, the London Times
and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV
Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.
OTHER HOLDINGS:
* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings,
LA Lakers, National Rugby
League.
* Ansett Australia airlines,
Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of
Directors, Philip Morris (USA).
*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9
million to George W. Bush in
2000)*
