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As of 2025 the U.S. media landscape is dominated by a handful of very large conglomerates — commonly identified as Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramoun...
A small set of giant conglomerates control the lion’s share of U.S. national TV networks and major media outlets: Comcast/NBCUniversal, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount/Pa...
is the rebranded successor to after spun off cable assets into a new company, , and the channel adopted the MS NOW name in November 2025 . Assessments of its credibility are mixed: the network has inv...
Microsoft is the owner and operator of the MSN web portal and its associated apps; ownership is corporate rather than individual and is housed within Microsoft’s consumer/web groups . No single, widel...
The 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape is a hot-mic recording of Donald Trump and Billy Bush in which Trump boasts about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife and uses the...
Available sources in this packet do not provide a consolidated list of Rachel Maddow YouTube segments that were formally corrected or retracted; reporting here instead documents a high-profile dispute...
Comcast NBCUniversal is the parent of a wide portfolio of major TV networks — most prominently — under full Comcast ownership since 2013. Political giving tied to Comcast includes company PAC activity...
Comcast (through NBCUniversal) and The Walt Disney Company are consistently identified among the largest U.S. media conglomerates and therefore own the greatest number of national broadcast and cable ...
Available sources identify Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Skydance among the largest U.S. media conglomerates in 2025; reporting and reference p...
Comcast NBCUniversal’s primary consumer streaming service is , a premium ad-supported platform operated by NBCUniversal under Comcast’s ownership. Public materials and product bundles repeatedly ident...
Comcast (owner of MSNBC/NBC), Warner Bros. Discovery (owner of CNN), and NBCUniversal/NBCUniversal Media appear in public campaign-finance summaries as corporate entities or affiliates that made in th...
and + both offer streams of on Feb. 8, 2026, but they serve very different audiences: Peacock provides the full NBC telecast across platforms — including on Peacock and NBC — with broader device suppo...
A handful of giant conglomerates—Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount/Paramount Skydance—dominate large swaths of U.S. entertainment and broad...
officially changed its name to MS NOW on November 15, 2025, a rebrand timed to coincide with the cable network’s spinoff into a new parent company, . Executives framed the move as a cosmetic shift — “...
will carry on its broadcast network, which means the game is available over the air for free with an antenna and through any service that carries local NBC affiliates; Spanish‑language coverage airs o...
Corporate participation in fundraising routed through the Trust for the National Mall has been acknowledged by multiple firms, but public disclosures of specific donor names and dollar amounts are spa...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that Alec Baldwin publicly criticized Kelly Clarkson at an industry meeting; the available pieces document workplace allegations about Clarkson’s show an...
Comcast is a publicly traded company whose shares are overwhelmingly held by institutional investors; multiple data providers put institutional ownership around roughly 78–81% while insiders hold well...
Comcast says “all contributions are publicly disclosed as required by law,” and the company posts periodic disclosure PDFs of PAC giving (examples: 2020–2022 reports) while federal-level filings for t...
Available sources in the provided set do not list individual 2022–2024 federal contributions by named NBCUniversal executives such as Linda Yaccarino; OpenSecrets shows NBCUniversal Media (the corpora...