VARIETY'S GLOBAL 50
Top 50 entertainment companies worldwide, ranked by 1999-2000 revenue (revenue in billions; profit in millions of dollars)
Name Symbol Location 1999-00 Rank 1998-99 Rank 1999-00 Revenue 1998-99 Revenue Percent Change 1999-00 Profit/(Loss) 1998-99 Profit/(Loss) Percent Change
Time Warner AOL New York 1 1 27.3 26.19 4 1900 -372
Walt Disney Co. DIS Burbank, Calif. 2 2 23.39 23 2 1300 1850 -30
Bertelsmann Guetersloh, Germany 3 3 15.19 15.3 482
News Corp. NWS New York/Los Angeles 4 4 14.19 13.59 4 1200 917 31
Viacom VIA New York 5 5 12.9 12.09 6 321 -150
Sony (music, film, TV div. of Sony Corp.) SNE Tokyo/New York 6 6 11.3 10.5 8 -1
Universal Studios Los Angeles 7 8 10.59 7.5 41 234
AT&T (cable and media assets) T New York/Englewood, Colo. 8 7 9.09 7.4 23 -59
Comcast CMCSK Philadelphia 9 10 6.2 5.2 19 1036 943 11
Cox Enterprises COX Atlanta 10 11 13
NBC (div. of General Electric) GE New York 11 12 5.79 5.29 9 17
Gannett GCI Arlington, Va. 12 13 5.29 4.9 8 958 999 -4
Vivendi V Paris 13 26 104
Pearson PSO London 14 15 5 3.7 35 450 711 -37
Cablevision CVC 15 20 3.93 3.29 19 -800 -448
Fuji TV (div. of Fujisankei Group) 16 19 3.85 3.29 17 200 125 60
EMI Group EMI London 17 16 3.6 3.7 -3 238 249 -4
Kirch Group Munich, Germany 18 24 15
RTL Group Luxembourg 19 3.29 163
United News & Media UNEWY London 20 18 3.25 3.5 -7 -158 488
USA Networks USAI New York 21 3.24 2.6 25 -28 77
Tribune Co. TRB Chicago 22 21 3.2 2.89 10 1480 414 258
Canal Plus Paris 23 28 3.1 2.7 15 -320 -26
Nippon Television Network Tokyo 24 25 3.06 2.79 10 318 218 46
Clear Channel Communications CCU San Antonio, Texas 25 2.99 1.5 99 72 54 33
Carlton CCTVY London 26 22 2.95 2.89 2 142 333 -57
BSkyB BSY Isleworth, U.K. 27 27 2.79 2.39 17 -405 -446
Globo GLCBY Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 28 14 2.6 4.59 -44 -35
Tokyo Broadcasting Tokyo 29 30 2.39 2.1 14 128 69 86
Clarin Buenos Aires, Argentina 30 29 2.2 2.2 9
Rogers RG Toronto 31 32 2.1 1.89 11 572 426
Mediaset MS Milan, Italy 32 31 2 2 325 306 6
Televisa TV Mexico City 33 34 1.89 1.7 12 112 77 46
ProsiebenSat.1 Media Berlin/Munich, Germany 34 1.86 79
TF1 Paris 35 35 1.77 1.7 4 153 110 39
Asahi National Broadcasting Tokyo 36 36 1.76 1.5 17 109 61 79
Bonnier Stockholm, Sweden 37 33 1.73 1.7 2 28
NTL NLI Hook, U.K. 38 45 1.6 0.75 113 -806 535
Toho Co. Tokyo 39 44 1.53 0.76 101 74 59 25
Granada Media (div. of Granada Group) London/Manchester, UK 40 37 1.5
Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. Sydney, Australia 41 43 85 66
Telewest TWSTY Woking, U.K. 42 39 1.39 1.1 27 -776 -637
Telefonica (entertainment assets) TEF Madrid, Spain 43 1.3
AMC Entertainment AEN Kansas City, Mo. 44 41 1.19 1 20 -55 -16
MGM MGM Santa Monica, Calif. 45 1.13 1.19 -5 -531 -158
Egmont Group Copenhagen, Denmark 46 38 1.11 1.12 -2 33 30 10
Loews Cineplex LCP New York 47 42 1.05 0.95 11 -51 -19
Regal Cinemas Knoxville, Tenn. 48 1.04 0.7 49 -89 -73
Sogecable SGC Madrid, Spain 49 48 0.73 0.6 21 -13 -22
Univision UVN Los Angeles/Miami 50 49 0.69 0.57 19 80 10 700
 
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