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The Chicago
Tribune is owned by the Tribune Company, a Chicago-based
company with revenues of $ 5.5 billion. Through its many
subsidiaries, the Tribune Company owns
more than 15 newspapers and 26 broadcasting stations throughout
the US. The newspaper has overseas correspondents to cover
international news, but it also relies on the Associated
Press.
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The Daily
Illini is run by Illini Media Company, a non-profit
corporation at UIUC that also operates radio station WPGU
(107.1 FM) as well as other UIUC publications. Like
most other US newspapers, the Daily Illini subscribes
to the Associated Press for their international
news.
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The News-Gazette
is a privately-owned newspaper based in Champaign with
annual subscription and advertising sales of $30,000,000.
For its international coverage, the
News-Gazette subscribes to the Associated
Press.
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WAND
is owned is owned by Block Communications of Toledo, OH, which is a privately held holding company of print and broadcast media. WAND is the NBC affiliate in Champaign-Urbana, which means that it carries the national programming of that network, including its news programs. NBC is owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Comcast assumed ownership of the company from General Electric in March 2013. Comcast’s revenues for the first quarter of 2014 were over $17 billion.
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WCIA is owned by Nexstar Broadcast Group, Inc., based in Irving, Texas, which owns a total of 65 television stations in 36 markets, including WCIA/WCIX in Champaign. WCIA is the CBS affiliate in Champaign-Urbana, which means that it carries the national programming of that network, including its news programs. CBS Corporation’s net revenues top $14 billion.
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WICD is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. According to the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, Sinclair reaches nearly 25% of the US television audience with its 62 stations. A recent report from the nonprofit Free Press notes that since 2011, Sinclair has announced deals that will increase its holdings to 162 stations, thus reaching 38.8% of the US television audience. WICD is the ABC affiliate in Champaign-Urbana, which means that it carries the national programming of that network, including its news programs. ABC is owned by the Walt Disney Co., an enormous multinational media corporation with annual revenue of $45 billion. So when you watch ABC news, you are watching Disney.
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WILL TV and Radio: WILL AM (580), FM (90.9), and TV are all part of the nonprofit public broadcasting service of the U of I. International news on WILL AM comes from several sources, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Public Radio International (PRI), and National Public Radio (NPR). WILL TV is an affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which is a private, non-profit media enterprise that is owned and operated by its member stations, such as WILL.
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WEFT
(90.1 FM) is an East-Central Illinois community-sponsored
public radio station. It broadcasts a range of non-corporate
public affairs and news programming, such as Democracy
Now! which carries international news.
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AOL is an independent company that recently spun off from Time-Warner, a media empire that earns $30 billion in sales each year. AOL has links to news by many Time-Warner-owned companies, including CNN and Time magazine. Its world news is largely from the Associated Press and Reuters. News on AOL is available to subscribers.
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CNN,
Cable News Network, is owned by Time-Warner,
a media empire that grosses a whopping $39.5 billion per
year. http://www.cnn.com/
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The Daily
Show is not a "real" news show but
it does satirize news and politics. It is on the cable
network Comedy Central, which is owned by Viacom. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/
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Fox News Channel is owned by Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., an American multinational mass media corporation with total revenues topping $33 billion. http://www.foxnews.com/
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Google is an Internet company with nearly $60 billion in annual revenues. Google News uses computers to crawl a very large number of news Web sites from around the world and organize articles by topic. http://www.news.google.com/
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MSNBC is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group. Its name derives from its founders, Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit. NBCUniversal’s annual revenues top $23 billion. http://www.msnbc.com/
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Urbana-Champaign
Independent Media Center is affiliated with the
Independent Media Center, “a collective of independent
media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering
grassroots, non-corporate coverage.” The UCIMC website
links to IMC websites around the world, which provide
international news from a range of sources outside the
mainstream media. http://www.ucimc.org/
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Yahoo is an international Internet company with over $4 billion in annual revenues. Yahoo News includes news websites from around the world. http://news.yahoo.com/
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The Associated
Press (AP) is a wire service, providing news
articles and photographs to newspapers, websites, and
broadcasting stations that subscribe to it. The AP, based
in New York, is a privately-owned transnational company
with revenues of between $500 million and $999 million.
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Reuters
is a wire service, providing news articles and photographs
to newspapers, websites, and broadcasting stations thatsubscribe
to it. Reuters, based in Great Britain, has revenues of over
$4 billion.
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Time
Warner’s holdings (in the US and abroad) include (but are not limited to) HBO, Cartoon Network, CNN.com, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Time Inc., and the Atlanta Braves baseball team.
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Viacom
is an enormous multinational media corporation with annual
revenues of $13 billion.
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