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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTop 50 entertainment companies: top 10 companies account for nearly half the top 50's turnover.(Focus)
Screen Digest, July, 2005
* The list of the world's top 50 media companies remains relatively unchanged year by year
* Almost half the companies--22 of the top 50--are headquartered in the USA
* The biggest companies all have interests in 'traditional' network television, film production and distribution and benefit from horizontal as well as vertical integration
It is paradoxical, but true: The only way to build a global media company is to have a base in a single country.
That country is, of course, the USA. Screen Digest's list of the world's top 50 groups by turnover from screen based entertainment and music is dominated by US companies. The two non-US companies in the top 10--Sony and News Corporation--both own Hollywood studios. Indeed, the Rupert...
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