Company Profits and Value

NewsCorp
News Corporation is the world's second largest media company after Walt Disney. They were the 3rd largest entertainment company in 2009, dropping from 2nd in 2008. In May of this year, its Revenue was around3 billion USD and its net income was 5.38 billion USD in the pervious year. News Corp are involved with all apects of media which are Film, Tv, Music and Radio, Books, Newspapers, Magazines and Internet. They Are assosiated with the likes of Vogue magazine, Fox Film Music Group & MySpace Records. They are also assosiatd with some of our well known newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times etc. Newscorp are assosicated with Some of film media's biggest names in Fox, 21st centuray fox and also some of Television's big names in Sky Tv and My Network Tv.Although 2009 has been a bad year, News corp. is looking forward to 2010 as they have a balance of 6.5 billion dollars for improvements and adjustments.

Time Warner
Time Warner Inc. is the world's largest entertainment company as well as the world's fourth largest media company, formerlly three separate businesses: Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. In 2008, its Revenue income was 46.98 billion USD, its Operating Income was a loss of 15.9 billion USD, its Net income was also a loss of 13.4 billion USD, its total assets were 113.9 billion USD. Therefore their total equity and profit obtained was roughly 42 billion USD. Current assets Time Warner own are AOL, HBO, Turner Broadcasting which involves Cartoon Network, Pogo, HTV etc. They also are involved with CNN radio, Court TV radio and Headline News radio. Warner Bro’s, Time Inc. are also a well known asset.

Sony
Sony Corporation is one of the largest company's in the media indusrty. It orignates from japan. Sony are famous for making Films under its brand 'sony pictures entertainment', they are also well known for creating games and games consoles such as the playstation, which has developed blu ray, which is also created by sony.Other platforms covered by sony are Sony Music and creating Printers, Pc's, Laptops, Tv's, dvd players and video camera's.Sony had a total revenue of 7.7 trillion yen in 2009, its Operating income was a loss of 227.8 billion Yen, its Net income was another loss of 98.9 billion Yen. Although in 2009, its total assets were 230.5 billion USD. So they in turn had profits of around 50 billion USD.

Viacom
Viacom (Video and Audio Communications) is an American media co operation with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks. The Revenue for Viacom last year was 14 Billion USD. Its Operating income was 2.4 billion USD, its Net income was 1 billion USD, its total assets were 22 billion USD and its total equity was 7 billion USD. Viacom are involved with Film Production & Distribution, Television Networks, Video Gaming & New Media. Such as in Film Production they are assosiated with Paramount Pictures, Home Entertainment & MTV Films and some Television Networks such as Comedy Central (formerly known as paramount comedy), Nickelodeon and Nick jnr, MTV and its sister chanels and VH1 etc.