Plausibility check: Alternate Media Conglomerates

Here is a list of alternate media conglomerates I had for a thread in the ASB forum that didn't get any real responses...

CBS CORPORATION
Movies: Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures
Broadcast Network: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Comics: IDW, The Archie-Harvey Group
Animation: Clokey Productions, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, DiC, UPA, Terrytoons
Video Games: Bally-Midway

DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC
Movies: Walt Disney Pictures, New Line Cinema, Lucasfilm
Broadcast Network: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Comics: Marvel
Animation: Walt Disney Classic Animation, Walt Disney Television Animation, Sunbow-Marvel, Jim Henson Productions, Jay Ward Productions
Video Games: Capcom

MCA
Movies: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG
Broadcast Network: MCA Television Network (MCA-TV)
Comics: DC Comics
Animation: Hanna-Barbera, Nelvana
Video Games: Atari

TURNER ENTERTAINMENT CO
Movies: 20th Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
Broadcast Network: Turner Programming Network (TPN)
Comics: Dark Horse, Bongo
Animation: Film Roman, Filmation
Video Games: THQ

WARNER COMMUNICATIONS
Movies: Warner Bros Pictures, Orion Pictures
Broadcast Network: American Brodcasting Company (ABC)
Comics: EC Publications
Animation: Warner Bros Animation, Ruby-Spears
Video Games: WB Interactive Entertainment

Would any or all of these acquisitions or ownerships be ASB, or could there be any number of POD's I could use to make this setup plausible?
 
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I like the idea of Turner Entertainment having a higher trajectory.

And maybe Time Warner - AOL could have worked out oh so well, scarily well, instead of the semi-fiasco it was.

And I love the idea that sometime in the 1960s or '70s could have given the big three of CBS, ABC, and NBC a run for their money.
 
I'm just wondering, what's the difference between Action and DC Comics?

I had seen in Neamathla's Five Colors for a Dime scenario that DC didn't absorb All American's characters like they did in OTL. Also in that timeline, DC was owned by the owners of Universal as opposed to TimeWarner in OTL.

Here, I thought I would need a good POD to have DC and All American merge, only to have the merger fail and have DC split in half, hence DC and Action being separate here. With the Justice League lineup of OTL split between the two companies, I would imagine Supes still having a home at Action, since the name comes from the first book he appeared in IOTL, but not so sure how to spread out the other JL members between the two studios.
 
Samsung was originally supposed to be in the media business, and they were in the process of making connections in North America when the plan was scrapped in the early 80s.
 
Samsung was originally supposed to be in the media business, and they were in the process of making connections in North America when the plan was scrapped in the early 80s.

Pretty interesting. Suppose Samsung did follow through with those plans, which companies would you picture Samsung owning?
 
Pretty interesting. Suppose Samsung did follow through with those plans, which companies would you picture Samsung owning?

I suppose they'll have a monopoly over the Korean media by the end of the 80s, and start taking over big Japanese names from the 90s. I'd like to see some sort of Disney-Samsung battle over North America.
 
Here is a list of alternate media conglomerates I had for a thread in the ASB forum that didn't get any real responses...
...
MCA
Movies: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG
...
TURNER ENTERTAINMENT CO
Movies: 20th Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
...
Would any or all of these acquisitions or ownerships be ASB, or could there be any number of POD's I could use to make this setup plausible?

I can see how you get Dreamworks SKG under MCA, but how are you going to get 20th Century Fox under Turner Entertainment?
 
Two things. First, Action Comics was a DC (National) trademark as far back as 1938 (the debut of Supes), so a company in the comics industry with that name, whatever the reason, is very unlikely. Second, I'm wondering why all the congloms have a videogame division, rather than one "specializing" in it; there's good reason to stick to "what you know", which is why GM doesn't publish magazines or sell soap.
 
Two things. First, Action Comics was a DC (National) trademark as far back as 1938 (the debut of Supes), so a company in the comics industry with that name, whatever the reason, is very unlikely. Second, I'm wondering why all the congloms have a videogame division, rather than one "specializing" in it; there's good reason to stick to "what you know", which is why GM doesn't publish magazines or sell soap.

So with DC still owning the "Action" title, which other names could be used if for some reason DC ended up spinning off the characters they absorbed from All American?

As for the game companies being owned by the different corporations, in OTL, Gulf+Western briefly owned Sega, and Warner Communications once owned Atari. Also IOTL, CBS had a gaming division called CBS Electronics and 20th Century Fox made dozens of games for the Atari 2600 with the tagline "Games of the Century."
 
So with DC still owning the "Action" title, which other names could be used if for some reason DC ended up spinning off the characters they absorbed from All American?
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EC (or Entertaining Comics) could work, as the OTL company EC was founded by All-American's founder Max Gaines, using the money he got from the DC-All-American merger. Plus, EC quickly found itself under the same Warner umbrella as DC, after the Comics Code ruined them.
 
EC (or Entertaining Comics) could work, as the OTL company EC was founded by All-American's founder Max Gaines, using the money he got from the DC-All-American merger. Plus, EC quickly found itself under the same Warner umbrella as DC, after the Comics Code ruined them.

Good idea. Thanks.
 
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