…and what are NBC and ABC?
When referencing these
networks…for example, when talking about CNN’s increasingly-extreme political
bias, ABC’s running of a video supposedly from Syria which was actually from
Kentucky, or the reports about widespread abuse of women at NBC, people tend to simply refer to them as
“CNN”, “ABC”, or “NBC”, as if they were independent entities. But they’re not.
CNN is owned by AT&T. NBC is owned by Comcast, and ABC is owned by
Disney.
The history is that CNN was
part of Turner Broadcasting, which merged with Time-Warner in 1996. Following a whole host of acquisition and
divestiture transactions (which included a very expensive experience with AOL),
Warner Media was acquired by AT&T in 2018.
NBC was acquired by GE in 1986 as part of its reacquisition of RCA; the
networks was put into a joint venture with Comcast in 2009, and the GE share of
the venture was bought out by Comcast in 2013. Disney acquired ABC in 1996 as
part of its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc.
Given how these entities have
been shuffled around, it may be understandable that people refer to them simply
by the names of the networks; still, I think the proper way to refer to CNN
would be “CNN, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant AT&T” and
similarly for the others.
Posted by David Foster,
Chicago Boyz, on October
16th, 2019,
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