MAXED MEDIA.(media companies)(Company rankings)

Daily News Record, June, 2007

Bigger seems to be better in the media world these days, from Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for Dow Jones Co. to Thomson Corp.'s $17.2 billion merger with Reuters. In its first survey of top global media owners, London-based ZenithOptimedia ranks the world's largest by 2005 media revenues, the latest figures available. Media revenues are defined as those "deriving from businesses that support advertising, which would include not only advertising revenues, but also other monies such as those earned via circulation sales for newspapers or magazines, for example," said the report.

United States

1) TIME WARNER

Media revenues (2005): $29.8 billion

Outdoing its closest competitor by $13 billion in media revenues is New York-based Time...

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