computer network: Local Area Network (connects 2 or more computers)

WAN: Wide Area Networks - connect LANs

World: Asia, Europe, North America

Penetration: North America, Australia/Oceania, Europe

SBC

Comcast

AOL

Verizon

Road Runner

Yahoo

Google

Msn

youtube

live.com

low entry barriers, lacks gatekeepers, not easily controlled

capped annual franchise fee to 5% of company's gross revenues

--> leads to increase in basic service prices

government needed to cap what city can charge for basic cable --> got expensive

Comcast (serves over 21 million households)

Time Warner (11 million)

--> both provide cable service to 44% US homes

Kennedy Dickinson combined Edison’s light bulb, Goodwin’s celluloid, and Le Prince’s camera to create this early movie camera

1.                        Independent Theaters (45%)          

2.         Regal (16.5%)                                

3.         AMC (12%)

4.         Cinemark (9%)

5.         Carmike (6%)

6.         Cineplex Entertainment (3%)

film studios with greatest US market share

1.    Time Warner 20%(Warner Bros, New Line, Warner Independent)

2.    Sony (17%)- (includes Columbia, Sony Classics, MGM/UA)

3.    Viacom (15.5%) (includes paramount, paramount vantage, DreamWorks)

4.    Disney 15%- (Buena Vista, Miramax, Pixar)

5.    News Corp 12% (Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight)

6.    GE/NBC Universal 12% (Universal, Focus, Roguel)

7.    Lion’s Gate- 4% (independent)

8.    All other independents- 6%

Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, RKO

Columbia, Universal, United Artists

late 1920s: oligopoly is formed

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  • Proctor and Gamble
  • AT&T
  • Verizon
  • General Motors Corp
  • Time Warner

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  • Omnicom Group
  • WPP group
  • Interpublic Group of Cos.
  • Publicis Groupe