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| Largest
Entertainment & Media Industry Mergers: 1985 to Early
2004 |
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| Year |
Buyer |
Acquired
Company |
Estimated
Value of Deal (in billions) |
1985 |
General
Electric |
RCA |
|
1985 |
Capital
Cities |
ABC |
$3.5 |
1986 |
General
Electric |
NBC |
|
1986 |
CBS |
Loews |
|
1989 |
Time
Inc. |
Warner
Communications |
$18.0 |
1993 |
Viacom |
Paramount |
$8.2 |
1995 |
Westinghouse |
CBS |
$5.4 |
1995 |
Walt
Disney |
Capital
Cities/ABC |
$19.0 |
1996 |
Time
Warner |
Turner
Broadcasting |
$6.7 |
1996 |
News
Corp., Ltd. |
New
World Communications |
$10.8 |
1996 |
Westinghouse/CBS |
Infinity
Broadcasting |
$4.9 |
1998 |
AT&T |
TCI |
$31.8 |
1999 |
Clear
Channel |
AMFM |
$17.0 |
1999 |
AT&T |
MediaOne
Group |
$58.0 |
1999 |
Viacom |
CBS |
$37.7 |
2000 |
America
Online |
Time
Warner |
$165.0 |
2000 |
Vivendi
Universal SA |
Seagram
Entertainment |
$34.0 |
2001 |
Comcast |
AT&T
Broadband |
$44.5 |
2003 |
News
Corp., Ltd. |
34%
stake in Hughes Electronics |
$6.6 |
2003 |
General
Electric/NBC |
Merges NBC with Vivendi's Film, TV and Theme Park Assets,
Creating NBC Unviversal |
$14.0 |
2004 |
Sony
Music |
Plans to Merge with BMG, the Music Unit of Bertelsmann AG,
creating Sony BMG |
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