United States (Eight Sisters AU)

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Media
American culture is dominated by 8 media companies:
 * ComcastNBCUniversal
 * SonyWestinghouse
 * The Walt Disney Company
 * MGM/UA/Amazon Communications Co.
 * News Corporation
 * VerizonParamount
 * AT&T AOL Time Warner
 * RKO Holdings

Each of these companies controls a major film studio:
 * Universal Pictures
 * Columbia Pictures
 * Walt Disney Pictures
 * Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * 20th Century Fox
 * Paramount Pictures
 * Warner Bros. Pictures
 * RKO Pictures

They also control the “Big 8” television networks, the original “Big 4” descended from radio networks around the dawn of television, and the newer “Little 4” formed during the 1980s and 1990s:
 * NBC (ComcastNBCUniversal)
 * CBS (SonyWestinghouse)
 * ABC (The Walt Disney Company)
 * MBS (MGM/UA/Amazon Communications Co.)
 * FOX (News Corporation)
 * UPN (VerizonParamount)
 * The WB (AT&T AOL Time Warner)
 * RKO (RKO Holdings)

Several “mini-major” studios, such as DreamWorks, Orion, New Line, and Lionsgate, as well as streaming services with their own studios, such as Netflix, have attempted to form over the years, but all have been acquired by the larger “Big 8” companies (DreamWorks is now part of Universal; Orion and Lionsgate are now part of MGM; New Line is now part of Warner Bros.; and Netflix is now owned by SonyWestinghouse).

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