Curated category
Mass media companies based in New York City
- Paramount GlobalParamount Global closed its doors on the 7th of August 2025, absorbed into a new entity called New Paramount through a merger that had taken more than a year…
- Den of GeekDen of Geek launched in 2007 from London, founded by Simon Brew as a pop culture website aimed at readers who took their fandom seriously.
- VerizonVerizon Communications today carries more wireless subscribers than any other carrier in the United States, a number that stood at 146.8 million as of the…
- Warner Bros. DiscoveryThe Warner brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack opened their film studio on the 4th of April 1923 in Hollywood. They built an empire that would eventually…
- Columbia RecordsColumbia Records was born on the 15th of January, 1889, in Washington, D.C., making it the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business.
- American Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company began not as a television network but as an act of government intervention. In 1943, federal regulators forced NBC to sell…
- Media BlastersMedia Blasters was founded in New York City in 1997 by John Sirabella, a man who had already built and sold one company before deciding to start again from…
- Cartoon NetworkCartoon Network launched on the 1st of October 1992, as the first 24-hour single-genre cable channel devoted entirely to animation.
- Bloomberg NewsBloomberg News began with a phone call. In November 1989, Michael Bloomberg picked up the phone and dialed Matthew Winkler, then a writer at The Wall Street…
- GKIDSGKIDS, Inc. walked into the Academy Awards in 2010 with a French film about two princes on a quest, and the animation world has never quite looked at New…
- Gawker MediaGawker Media began not in a gleaming office tower but in Nick Denton's personal apartment in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo.
- Hearst CommunicationsHearst Communications is one of the largest privately held media companies in the United States, built on a foundation that stretches back to a single…
- Digital TrendsDigital Trends started in Lake Oswego, Oregon in June 2006, the creation of two co-founders named Ian Bell and Dan Gaul.
- Bloomberg LawBloomberg Law arrived in late 2009 as a pilot program, entering a legal research market that two established giants had long divided between themselves.
- Marvel EntertainmentMarvel Entertainment's own owner once compared the company to Disney. "It is a mini-Disney in terms of intellectual property," said Ronald Perelman…
- Ziff DavisZiff Davis traces its roots to 1920, when William B. Ziff opened a Chicago advertising agency that placed ads for national brands like Procter and Gamble in…
- Central Park MediaCentral Park Media Corporation got its name from a corner. The company's offices sat at 250 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, right on the edge of…
- Bloomberg L.P.Bloomberg L.P. began not with a vision statement or a venture capital pitch, but with a termination check. In 1981, when Salomon Brothers was acquired…