Who Owns the Media?

Top Cable Channels

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Who owns the channels carried on the most cable systems in the United States? Big Media companies, that's who.

Rank Channel Owner(s)
1 TBS Time Warner
2 A&E Walt Disney Co
Hearst Corp.
General Electric
3 Discovery Channel Discovery Holdings
Cox Enterprises
Advance/Newhouse
4 ESPN Walt Disney Co.
5 USA General Electric
6 CNN Time Warner
7 Disney Walt Disney Co.
8 ESPN2 Walt Disney Co.
9 History Channel Walt Disney Co
Hearst
General Electric
10 Home & Garden TV E.W. Scripps Co.
11 TNT Time Warner
12 ABC Family Walt Disney Co.
13 Lifetime Walt Disney Co.
Hearst Corp.
14 Nickelodeon Viacom
15 SpikeTV Viacom
16 The Learning Channel Discovery Holdings
Cox Enterprises
Advance/Newhouse
17 Sci-Fi General Electric
18 The Weather Channel Landmark Communications
19 Fox News News Corp.
20 CMT Viacom

Rankings based on percentage of U.S. cable systems carrying the channel as of April 2007.

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