#Media-Consolidation
Events indexed under #Media-Consolidation — 28 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | Trump Intervenes in Netflix-Warner Bros Antitrust Review, Favoring Politically Connected Paramount Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Paramount · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12 | reported | |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions Skydance · Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | FCC Approves Skydance's Acquisition of Paramount/CBS Federal Communications Commission · Skydance Media · Paramount Global · Commissioner Anna Gomez (dissented) | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-02 | Joe Rogan Signs New $250 Million Spotify Deal, No Longer Exclusive Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Sinclair Broadcasting Reaches 40% of US Households Through Local News Monopoly Sinclair Broadcast Group · David Smith · Chris Ripley · Local News Stations | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-18 | NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005 Alden Global Capital · Local Newspapers · Hedge Funds · Communities · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-21 | Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher Alden Global Capital · Tribune Publishing · Randall D. Smith · Chicago Tribune · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-19 | Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Refers Sinclair-Tribune Merger to Hearing Over "Serious Concerns" About Sham Divestitures and Misrepresentation Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Tribune Media · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-15 | iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy with $20 Billion Debt - Conservative Radio Empire Collapses Under Leveraged Buyout Burden iHeartMedia · Clear Channel Communications · Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-17 | Boris Epshteyn Leaves Trump White House, Immediately Joins Sinclair Broadcasting as Chief Political Analyst - Direct Trump Propaganda Pipeline Boris Epshteyn · Sinclair Broadcast Group · Donald Trump · White House Office of Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · Clear Channel Communications · iHeartMedia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition Michael K. Powell · Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion Michael Powell · Federal Communications Commission · Sinclair Broadcasting · David Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Radio Empire Reaches 1,240 Stations After AMFM Acquisition - Conservative Talk Radio Infrastructure Dominates American Airwaves Clear Channel Communications · Rush Limbaugh · AMFM Inc. · Lowry Mays · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations Viacom · CBS Corporation · Sumner Redstone · Mel Karmazin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History America Online · Time Warner · Steve Case · Gerald Levin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-12-31 | Telecommunications Act Triggers Mass Layoffs and Destruction of Local Journalism Media Conglomerates · Local News Stations · Radio Journalists · Newspaper Reporters · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-06-30 | Clear Channel Begins Unprecedented Radio Consolidation Under Telecommunications Act Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays · FCC Federal Communications Commission · Local Radio Stations | confirmed | |
| 1996-02-08 | Telecommunications Act of 1996 Eliminates Radio Ownership Caps and Raises TV Limits, Triggering Massive Media Consolidation Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission · Clear Channel Communications · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation Rupert Murdoch · John Kluge · Marc Rich | confirmed | |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape William Paley · Columbia Phonograph Company · Arthur Judson · Paramount Pictures | confirmed | |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly David Sarnoff · Radio Corporation of America · General Electric · Westinghouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1922-11-01 | Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power E.W. Scripps · Roy W. Howard · Robert Scripps · Scripps-Howard Newspapers | confirmed | |
| 1920-01-01 | Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics William Randolph Hearst · Hearst Communications | confirmed |