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ABC, SBS, BBC

Advance

Annenberg

AOL

APN

Astors

Aust Networks

Beaverbrook

Bertelsmann

Black

Cox

Disney

DMG

Elsevier

Fairfax

Financial Press

Fleet Street

Hearst

Liberty

Maxwell

News & Murdoch

New Yorker

NY Times

Packer

Sony

Thomson

Time Warner

Tribune

US Networks

Viacom

Vivendi

W Post



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holdings

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Film Production & Distribution

Universal Studio

Universal Pictures

October Films (majority interest)

Universal Studios Home Video

United International Pictures (33% - international distribution)

Cinema International BV (49% - video distribution)

Television Production & Distribution

Universal Television Group (production and distribution)

Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (50% ) - production

Multimedia Entertainment (talk show production - Jerry Springer)

USA Networks Inc (45%) - formerly Home Shopping Network headed by Barry Diller, former Fox Network czar

Universal Pay Television (international distribution)

Overseas film and tv (partial ownership)

HBO Asia

Telecine (Brazil)

Cinecanal (Latin America)

Showtime (Australia)

Star Channel (Japan)

Germany's Kirch Group  - film and television production, broadcasting and publishing

CANAL+  - French film and television production and broadcasting

RTL7 (Poland)

Sogecable (Spain)

Interactive

Universal Studios Online

Universal.com

Universal Interactive Studios - software and video games)

Universal Digital Arts

Interplay  - video game producer

GetMusic  - online music retailer

Music Labels

MCA Records

MCA Records Nashville

Decca Records

GRP Recording Company

Geffen/DGC Records

Universal Records

Rising Tide

Interscope Records

Hip-O Records

A&M

Decca

Def Jam

Deutsche Grammophon

Island

London

Mercury

Motown

Phillips Classics

Polydor

Verve

manufacturing facilities in Amersfoot (Netherlands), Blackburn (UK), Hannover (Germany), Kings Mountain (USA), Louviers (France)

Music Publishing and Distribution

PolyGram Music Publishing

Island Music

Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing (50%)

Universal Music and Video Distribution

Universal Music International

MCA Music Publishing

Interscope Music Publishing

All Nations Catalog

Universal Concerts (concert promotion)

Theme Parks and Retail

Universal Studios Hollywood

Universal Studios Florida (joint venture with UK Rank Group)

Universal's Islands of Adventure 

Universal Studios Japan (planned for 2001)

Sega Game Works (partial ownership - local entertainment centers)

Spencer Gifts

Film Production

Interscope

Propaganda

Working Title

Cinea (50%) France 

PolyGram DA

Pan Europeenee Production (70%)

Noe

PolyGram Television

Working Title Television

Propaganda Television

TedPoly (50%) - Hong Kong

Meteor Films - Netherlands

 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Australia

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Benelux

Sogepaq (50%) - Spain

PolyGram Film International

PolyGram Television USA

PolyGram Television International

production or distribution agreements with:

Havoc Inc

Island Pictures

Egg Pictures

Def Pictures

Dirty Hand Productions

The Jones Company   

Film and tv Distribution

PolyGram Films

Gramercy

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment UK

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Canada

PolyGram Film Distribution

Video Production and distribution

PolyGram Video

Vision Video

Abbey Home Entertainment

PolyGram Video US/International

Satellite/Cable TV

VIVA (20%)

MTV Asia (50%)

Atomic TV (40%) - Poland

Sundance Channel (10% USA and 75% International)

Merchandising:

PolyGram Merchandising  (80%)

Britannia (UK) - direct marketing

DIAL (France) - direct marketing

Other

Cineplex Odeon Corporation (42%) - cinemas in US and Canada

Cinema International Corporation (49%) - cinemas

United Cinemas International (49%) - cinemas

Really Useful Holdings (30%) - Andrew Lloyd Webber theatrical productions and copyrights