Media in New York City national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States. The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, NYC Media, that produces several original New York Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods, as well as city government-access television (GATV). New York City is home to a number of major online media companies, including Verizon's digital content subsidiary Oath Inc. and its operations under the AOL brand, along with news and entertainment companies like BuzzFeed and VICE Media.
Concentration of media ownership Concentration of media ownership Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media. Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms. Globally, large media conglomerates include Bertelsmann (BMG), National Amusements (Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation), 21st Century Fox Inc (merging with Disney on January 1, 2019), Sony Corporation, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T Inc., Turner Broadcasting System, Hearst Communications, MGM Holdings Inc., Grupo Globo (South