Media Institutions

Disney

The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney. Disney is a large media and entertainment institution founded on October 16, 1923. It's choice of a fairy tail theme has proven to be successful as Disney has a net worth of $5 billion. It's main influence was creativity, imagination of youth and the ability to think beyond. Disney also bought the computer animation film studio, Pixar. Pixar is most commonly know for it's CGI-animated feature films. CGI stands for  computer generated imagery. Disney is a very large institutions that has many synergies such as; Hollywood record, Disney land, Disney live, Disney channel, Disney comics and Marvel.

News Corporation

News Corporation is a mass media institution and was founded by a man called Rupert Murdoch in Australia. Originally News Corporation was one institution however after concerns from shareholders Rupert Murdoch decided to split the company into, one focused on media and the other focus on publishing. The media side was called 21st Century Fox. An example of synergy they have used before is in an episode of "The Simpsons".

ITV

ITV is a TV network that was launched in 1955, it first started broadcasting on channel 3 so naturally it was very popular when it first launched due to the lack of existing channels. ITV is regulated by Ofcom to provide competition with BBC. ITV is also a commercial TV network which means they get their money from advertising instead of public-service broadcaster. ITV has many synergies such as ; CITV, ITV 2 and ITV 3.

The Guardian

The guardian, originally called the Manchester Observer, was founded by John Edward Taylor in 1821 and was published only on a Saturday. The Guardian was one of the first fully coloured and sized broadsheet newspapers. A broadsheet newspaper is a newspaper with a large format that is regarded as more serious then tabloids. The guardian has a synergy online where the user is able to read about the news. In addition to their online synergy they also use The Observer as another synergy.

Twitter

Twitter was founded on March 21 2006 by a man named Jack Dorsey. Twitter uses UGC to function, UGC stands for user generated  content. People that have registered with Twitter are able to read and post tweets while unregistered users can only read them. There is 304 million monthly active users, this shows how successful Twitter has become. It has many popular synergies such as; Vine, YouTube and the mobile app.

BBC

On 18 October 1922 John Reith founded the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The BBC is a public-service broadcaster, unlike ITV, this means it is mainly funded by the television licence fee. The BBC spends 50% of its expenditure on its television service as oppose to its radio and online service. The BBC remit is "Inform, educate, entertain". It has an online synergy called BBC iPlayer as well as multiple channels including; BBC 2, BBC 3 and BBC 4.

Sony

Sony was founded on the 7th May 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Masuru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Sony Corporation primarily focuses on consumer and professional electronics with multiple divisions. Sony divisions are electronics, motion pictures, music and financial services. 

Vivendi

Vivendi is a French multinational mass media institution, it provides services with music, television, tickets, film and video hosting service. It was founded by a man called Vincent Bollore. The company Vivendi also owns a French TV channel.

Viacom

Viacom is also a mass media company that was founded May 3 1971. Their main interest are in cinema and cable television however they do partake in other activities. It was founded by Tom Freston and Sumner Redstone. The company Viacom has been very successful as they have a net worth of $6.2 billion. Viacom has multiple divisions which include Viacom Media Networks and Viacom International Media Networks.