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The power behind your favorite channels

By Matt Kempner
July 18, 2014

Who owns your favorite TV network? Whomever it is could change soon.

21st Century Fox’s attempts to acquire Time Warner and its Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting TV networks could spark other consolidations among owners of cable TV networks. Here’s a sampling of who owns which network:

CBS: CBS (broadcast network), CW (broadcast network, with Time Warner), Showtime, Smithsonian Channel (joint venture).

Time Warner: HBO, Cinemax and (through Turner Broadcasting) TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, CNN, HLN, CW (broadcast network; joint venture), truTV, Adult Swim, Boomerang.

21st Century Fox: FX, Fox News, Fox (broadcast network), Fox Sports, Fox Sports Networks, National Geographic Channel (joint venture), BigTen Network (joint venture), YES network (partial stake).

Viacom: Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Spike, BET, CMT, VH1, TV Land.

Discovery Communications: Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Oprah Winfrey Network (joint venture), Science.

Scripps Networks Interactive: HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, DIY.

AMC Networks: AMC, WE tv, IFC, Sundance Channel.

Comcast (including NBCUniversal): NBC (broadcast), Telemundo (broadcast), USA Network, Bravo, Syfy, MSNBC, E!, Golf Channel, CNBC, Oxygen, NBC Sports Network.

Disney: ABC (broadcast network), ABC Family, EPSN, Disney Channel, plus a stake in A&E.

Crown Media Holdings: Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movie Channel.

Univision Communications: Univision (broadcast network).

About the Author

Matt Kempner is an award-winning journalist who seeks out intriguing twists about people and subjects beyond what the AJC might typically cover. A former columnist and editor, his past assignments have included business investigations, energy, the economy, entrepreneurs, big business, consumer spending, politics, government and the environment.

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