Music Business

Sony/ATV Music Publishing: The Story Behind the World’s Leading Music Publisher

Take a second to imagine your favorite songs—classics, hit singles, deep tracks, guilty pleasures… Got them? Sony/ATV Music Publishing probably owns them. As the leader in music publishing, this giant owns a massive catalog of copyrights to over 3 million songs by nearly every big name you could think of including classics like The Beatles and Michael Jackson, as well as current artists like Taylor Swift and Kanye West (Sony/ATV […]

Broadcast Television

It Takes a (Media) Village – NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution

NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution (which will subsequently be referred to as NBCDTD) is a branch of NBCUniversal, a media company owned by corporate giant Comcast (Brodkin, 2018).  NBCDTD, specifically, develops, produces and distributes NBCUniversal products to broadcast television stations in the US (NBCUniversal, 2018).  They focus on creating and distributing shows, as well as distributing off-network programs (NBCUniversal, 2018), or shows that no longer run on primetime and are made […]

Cable Television

HBO: The Biggest Name in Television is “Not TV”

  Corporate Introduction and History Home Box Office, or HBO, began in 1972 under Chuck Dolan, a New York cable entrepreneur whose vision for a television channel combining sports and movies laid the foundation for a corporation that has since grown into an entertainment giant (Mair, 1988, p.3-4).  From its original subscriber base of 325 individuals in Wilkes-Barre, PA, its popularity exploded to include over 15 million subscribers across the […]

Online Video

BAMTech Media: Disney’s Star Player

I swore I would disconnect the internet, but he didn’t care about my halfhearted threats. An annoyed 20 something college student, I sat in my dorm room as my roommate cheered on the New York Yankees while I cursed the Texas Rangers. My anxiety and eagerness mounted while praying for a miracle or at least Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to break a leg. Literally! Jeter made history scoring his 100th […]

Cable Television, Film Business

Trigger Street Productions: the Secret Force Behind Your Favorite Shows

  Much like Kevin Spacey’s character in their most iconic property, House Of Cards, Trigger Street  Productions has quickly risen from the obscurity to become a household name. However, instead of political sphere, like Spacey in the show, Trigger Street is a rising star in the entertainment industry. Trigger Street Productions is a diverse company that has found success in everything from television to film to podcasting. Since being founded […]