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Former American multinational media conglomerate
CNN is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a media conglomerate created by the 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc. . In 2025 WBD announced plans to split its streaming/studios business fr...
is currently owned by (often shortened to Warner Bros. or WBD), the media conglomerate that brought CNN into its corporate family through successive mergers and remains the network’s parent company as...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 triggered the rapid unravelling of his media empire: Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC) and related holdings effectively collapsed, revelations followed th...
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...
Since 2020 CNN has gone through at least three major waves of cuts and restructuring tied to executive change, the failed CNN+ streaming push, and a renewed pivot to digital under CEO Mark Thompson — ...
Major U.S. media transactions since 2020 that are repeatedly cited in the reporting include: AT&T’s 2018–2022 divestiture and spinoff of WarnerMedia into a merged company with Discovery (closing April...
Claims that “Jews control mainstream media” are contradicted by reporting and research showing major U.S. news outlets are owned by large multinational corporations and a small set of conglomerates (e...
Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and News Corp are all publicly traded media conglomerates, but their : Comcast features concentrated voting control tied to its founding famil...
Since the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger, internal reporting portrays CNN as operating in prolonged managerial and strategic limbo with measurable shifts toward digital products and cost-consciousness r...
Public reporting on which ISPs publish transparency reports or explicit retention schedules for IP-connection logs is uneven: some ISPs (notably certain European and Latin American operators cited in ...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 triggered the collapse and breakup of his publishing empire, including Macmillan, which was sold off in pieces amid revelations of massive debt and fraud; . Investigatio...