Media in New York City have their editorial offices based in the city. New York is home to the corporate headquarters of such publishing giants as: Among other national leaders based in New York city are "Newsweek", owned by The Newsweek Daily Beast Company", and Rolling Stone", published by Wenner Media. In the 1930s, New York-based RCA was the nation's largest manufacturer of phonographs. In the late 19th and early 20th century, most sheet music in the United States — especially the popular songs of the day, many now standards — was printed at Tin Pan Alley, so called because the constant sound of new
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