The document discusses several major media companies and their owners/leaders including Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, NBC Universal, News Corporation, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. It provides details on their revenues, acquisitions, founding dates, and key people such as Ted Turner, Michael Eisner, Sumner Redstone, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Rupert Murdoch, and the Newhouse family.

1. Media-magnates and their Empires

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8. Time Warner Time Warner + America On Line revenueof $39.5 billion Main shareholder - Ted Turner

10. The Walt Disney Company Revenues of $27.1 billion Michael Eisner The Walt Disney Empire + The ABC Inc.

11. Viacom Revenue of just over $26.5 billion Founded in 1971 The world's largest provider of cable programming Headed by Sumner Redstone

13. NBC UNIVERSAL Edgar Bronfman, Jr. NBC + Vivendi +Universal Studious + Interscope Records Bronfman became the biggest man in the record business in May 1998

14. News Corporation Owner – notorious Rupert Murdoch The fifth largest megamedia corporation in the nation Revenues of approximately $19.2 billion

15. The Associated Press The Associated Press + The Newhouses Vice president and managing editor, Michael Silverman The net worth of Advance Publications is more than $9 billion today

16. The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post