The Timeline of the Mass Media Companies

# 1955 - DreamWorks Pictures becomes major film studio
# 1959 - RKO Pictures becomes mini-major studio
# 1982 - The Coca-Cola Company purchases Columbia Pictures.
#1984 - Disney becomes major film studio
# 1985 - News Corporation completes its acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
# 1985 - Viacom is founded after Gulf + Western acquires Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment (Later renamed to MTV Networks due to it being no longer a part of Warner Bros.) and ITV plc. from Warner Communications and American Express
# 1986 - Turner Broadcasting System acquires Metro Goldwyn Mayer
# 1986 - National Amusements acquires Viacom
# 1987 - Columbia Pictures Entertainment is founded after the Coca-Cola Company sells Columbia Pictures to Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.
# 1989 - Sony acquires Columbia Pictures Entertainment.
# 1989 - CBS NewsCorp is founded after Westinghouse acquires News Corporation.
# 1990 - Time Inc merges with Warner Communications to form Time Warner
# 1990 - Viacom acquires Miramax, Dimension Films and New World Pictures from American Express
# 1990 - Matsushita Electric (later known as Panasonic) buys MCA Inc.
# 1994 - IBM buys General Electric.
# 1995 - Seagram purchases MCA Inc from Matsushita.
# 1996 - Turner Broadcasting System, Inc merges with Time Warner to form Warner Bros. Discovery
# 2000 - Vivendi acquires Universal Pictures from The Seagram Company Ltd.
# 2000 - Viacom merges with CBS NewsCorp to form ViacomFox.
# 2000- Apple acquires The Walt Disney Company.
# 2001 - Amazon acquires AT&T and Warner Bros. Discovery
# 2003 - Microsoft acquires ViacomFox, resulting in the foundation of Microsoft Entertainment Group.
# 2004 - Vivendi Universal acquires IBM, resulting in the foundation of NBC Universal, Inc.
# January 29, 2011 - Comcast acquires NBCUniversal Media, LLC.
# June 28, 2013 - Google merges with Comcast.
# March 20, 2019 - The Walt Disney Company acquires Starz Media.