Amalgamated Studios

* **Rating:** AA
* **Headquarters:** Studio City, Los Angeles, Pueblo Corporate Council
* **Leadership:** CEO Robin Taylor
* **Business:** Entertainment

The second largest (behind Horizon) of California's entertainment companies, Amalgamated used to be the biggest name in global entertainment until Horizon came to knock them off their throne. Horizon and Amalgamated Studios are the two biggest players in the biz and are constantly at odds. The only reason sabotage of productions and sets doesn’t get out of hand is a strange form of *détente*

Amalgamated has defined its product as "entertainment," not "simsense" or "video/trideo". This makes it the most diversified of the big studios. Not only does AS have a finger in every pie, it invented or improved most of them. Fun City is Amalgamated's best-known asset: an entire city devoted to hotels, restaurants, amusement parks and tourist attractions. Many of its other products are manufactured under division names, obscuring their real origin.

Amalgamated provides its own extremely tight security. Many of its security personnel are ex-runners looking for the good life (a regular paystick does wonders for the cred account, don't you know). Amalgamated security includes a large number of skilled deckers. As masters of illusion, the Powers-That-Be at Amalgamated are wise to all the ways to fool cameras and others senses: that's why the tend to rely heavily on front-line personnel.

Amalgamated is almost synonymous with the part of Los Angeles it built, Studio City. Most of the residential and commercial areas of Orange County that survived the shocks of the 2060’s behind the now-reinforced walls have been subsumed into Studio City, the huge walled-off corporate enclave from which 80 percent of Hollywood’s trideo and sim production flows. It still actually own most of the land in Studio City - however, on paper it owns only studios and production facilities. Its residential properties belong to various "independent" realty companies, plus the occasional megarich simsense star.

The overall organization pooled its assets in the 2030's in order to buy up huge tracts of land, national parks and other resources out of the reach of any single studio. They also combined their various film archives, or "morgues", into one big one at Moorpark and Colfax - saves mucho cred on maintenance and utilities. On the creative end, however, all the smaller studios that joined Amalgamated technically remain independent. Amalgamated started out as a number of smaller studios, and they still operate that way. They have access to the same wizbang facilities, but in terms of profits and losses they're treated as separate entities. If one studio makes a blockbuster, it doesn't show up on another studio's balance sheet. They means that if the studios want to keep their masters in the CEO's office happy, they have to make sure their profits are larger and their losses smaller than those of their fellow studios.

## Subsidiaries

* TSS [formerly "Taylor Satellite Services"], (President: Grace Franklin) - daily and weekly shows, with some news coverage
* Pegasus Productions (President: Steve Greenland) - mostly trideo drama, with a few action shows
* WorldVision (President: Kaitlyn Taylor) - bulk of the news coverage
* MagicMind (President: Darin Levinhoff) - takes care of the simsense market
* Galaxy Communications (President: Morgan Edge)
* Global Broadcasting (President: Walter de Courcey)
* Fun City (President: Jackson Rise) - Administration of Fun City, promotion and design
* LivingWorld Productions (President: Buna Chima) - Religious Productions
* Concert Sims (President: Pasquale Mendoza) - recordings of live concerts. Urban Brawl and similar live events.
* *and many others*