Working Title
BEYOND THE CAMERA
Big production studios are connected to bigger and smaller companies. For example:
Universal
Universal Studios Inc. (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios.
Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour.
Type: Subsidiary
Industry: Film
Founded: April 30, 1912; 103 years ago(as Universal Film Manufacturing Company)
Founder:
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Carl Laemmle
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Pat Powers
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Mark Dintenfass
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William Swanson
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David Horsley
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Charles Baumann
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Adam Kessel
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Jules Brulatour
Headquarters: Universal City, California, U.S.
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Ronald Meyer
(Chairman and COO)
Comcast
Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings,is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue.It is the second largest pay-TV company after the AT&T-DirecTV merger and largest home Internet service provider in the United State, and the nation's third largest hometelephone service provider.
Type:Public
Traded as: Class A NASDAQ: CMCSA
Mass media
Founded: June 28, 1963; 52 years ago
Tupelo, Mississippi, United States
FounderRalph J. Roberts
Daniel Aaron
Julian A. Brodsky
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania,United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people:
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Brian L. Roberts
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(Chairman & CEO)
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Michael Angelakis
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(Vice Chairman, CFO)
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David L. Cohen(Executive Vice President)
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NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Type: Subsidiary of Comcast
Industry: Mass media
Predecessor: Vivendi Universal Entertainment
MCA Inc.
Founded: Late 1926
May 12, 2004 -(as NBC Universal, Inc. - merger between General Electric's National Broadcasting Company and Vivendi's Vivendi Universal Entertainment)
January 29, 2011- (as NBCUniversal Media, LLC, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, LLC - joint venture between GE & Comcast)[5]
Late 2011- (as NBCUniversal, Inc.)
Headquarters:Comcast Building
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112,United States
Area served: Global
Key people: Steve Burke (President & CEO)