| 2025-12-10 | Trump Intervenes in Netflix-Warner Bros Antitrust Review, Favoring Politically Connected Paramount
3 src Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Paramount · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing
5 src David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +7 |
| reported |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households
3 src Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval
4 src Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions
4 src Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 2025-07-24 | FCC Approves Skydance's Acquisition of Paramount/CBS
4 src Federal Communications Commission · Skydance Media · Paramount Global | | confirmed |
| 2024-02-02 | Joe Rogan Signs New $250 Million Spotify Deal, No Longer Exclusive
5 src Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | | confirmed |
| 2022-10-01 | Sinclair Broadcasting Reaches 40% of US Households Through Local News Monopoly
3 src Sinclair Broadcast Group · David Smith |
| confirmed |
| 2021-10-18 | NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 2021-05-21 | Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 2020-05-19 | Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify
5 src Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-28 | KESMA: Orbán Issues Decree Creating Single Foundation Absorbing 476 Hungarian Media Outlets by Sovereign Exemption from Competition Review
13 src Viktor Orbán |
| confirmed |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation
5 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · David Smith |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-15 | iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy with $20 Billion Debt - Conservative Radio Empire Collapses Under Leveraged Buyout Burden
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Bain Capital · Rush Limbaugh |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-17 | Boris Epshteyn Leaves Trump White House, Immediately Joins Sinclair Broadcasting as Chief Political Analyst - Direct Trump Propaganda Pipeline
5 src Sinclair Broadcast Group · Donald Trump · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis
4 src Bain Capital · Clear Channel Communications · Mitt Romney · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition
3 src Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion
3 src Federal Communications Commission · David Smith · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Radio Empire Reaches 1,240 Stations After AMFM Acquisition - Conservative Talk Radio Infrastructure Dominates American Airwaves
5 src Clear Channel Communications · Rush Limbaugh · Lowry Mays · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations
4 src Viacom · FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History
4 src FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-12-31 | Telecommunications Act Triggers Mass Layoffs and Destruction of Local Journalism
4 src FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-06-30 | Clear Channel Begins Unprecedented Radio Consolidation Under Telecommunications Act
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays · FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation
10 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation
3 src Rupert Murdoch |
| confirmed |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape
3 src Paramount Pictures | | confirmed |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly
3 src General Electric · AT&T | | confirmed |
| 1922-11-01 | Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1920-01-01 | Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics
4 src |
| confirmed |