Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation.

James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 - July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. Cox was born in the tiny Butler County, Ohio village of Jacksonburg. Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher, reporter, owner and editor of several newspapers, and secretary to Congressman Paul J. Sorg.

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years.

Anne Cox Chambers is a billionaire media proprietor. She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and senior Democratic political identity. She owns and controls her father’s business interests, through Cox Enterprises. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, died on May 28, 2007. A generous financial supporter of the Democratic Party, …

William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate.

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005.

Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.

Laurence Alan Tisch (born March 5 1923, died November 15 2003) was a Wall Street investor and self-made billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995. With his brother Bob Tisch, he was part owner of the Loews Corporation. He is the namesake of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). His 1982 donation enabled the school to relocate to its current Broadway facility.

George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century. Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties — "The Courier-Journal" and "The Louisville Times" newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and Television. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. Robert Worth Bingham, using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, …

John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is an entrepreneur who was born in Chemnitz, Germany, best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1937.

Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation.

Barbara Cox Anthony was the second and youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic Governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox Enterprises. Her net worth was estimated at $12 billion, …

Generoso Paul "Gene" Pope, Jr. (January 13, 1927 - October 3, 1988) was an American Media mogul, best known for creating The National Enquirer. Pope learned the newspaper business from his father, Generoso Pope Sr., a New York political powerbroker and quarry magnate whose Italian-American newspaper interests included the "Corriere d'America" and the daily "Il Progresso Italo-Americano". Generoso Pope Sr. had ties to New York crime boss Frank Costello, …

James Albert Noe, Sr. (December 21, 1890 - October 18, 1976) of Monroe served for nearly five months as a Democratic Governor of Louisiana after the death of Oscar K. Allen on January 28, 1936. Noe was born in tiny Evans Landing in Harrison County, Indiana, to John M. Noe and the former Belle McRae. He also lived in the area of West Point, Kentucky, as a child. His education was limited to county schools.

Donald Newhouse is one of the owners of Condé Nast Publications. With an estimated current net worth of around $7.3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 100-richest person in America. Notable children Kathryn Michael Steven. Notable Grandchildren Andrew David Alex Robert Sarah and Kate. Quote by Donald Newhouse "As my Grandson would say. Wow!"

Frank Batten (1927-) is a communications entrepreneur who began his career when he assumed leadership of his uncle Samuel L. Slover's newspaper, "The Virginian-Pilot" and "The Ledger-Star" in Norfolk, Virginia at age 27 in 1954. Batten grew his uncle's business by acquiring additional newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, as well as founding a new cable station The Weather Channel.

David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891-December 12, 1971) was the Pioneer of American Television and founder of the [National Broadcasting Corporation], NBC. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities shortly after its founding in 1919 to his retirement in 1970. Known as "The General", he ruled over an ever-growing radio and electronics empire to include both RCA and NBC that became one of the largest companies in the world.

Randolph Apperson Hearst (December 2, 1915 - December 18, 2000) was the last surviving son of William Randolph Hearst. He is probably most famous for being the father of Patty Hearst and being threatened by the Symbionese Liberation Army when they kidnapped her in 1974. After his graduation from Harvard University in 1938, Randolph Hearst joined the family business, the Hearst Corporation. Long active in management of the San Francisco Examiner, …

Haim Saban (born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a television and media proprietor. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.8 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 98th richest person in America.

Jerry Perenchio (born December 20,1930) is a former talent agent who owns Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the United States. Born Andrew Jerrold Perenchio in Fresno, California, he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a young Hollywood talent agent for MCA and represented such celebrity clients as Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. In 1992, he and his partners spent US$550 million for Univision in 1992; his 16% stake is now worth $1.3 billion.

George Randolph Hearst Jr. (born July 13, 1927) has been chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation since 1996, succeeding his uncle Randolph Apperson Hearst. He has been a director of the company for over forty years. Non-family executives are a majority on the trust that controls the corporation, and this trust will not dissolve until all grandchildren alive at the death of William Randolph Hearst have died. George Jr. is one of the oldest grandchildren.

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1895 - 1979) was a U.S. broadcasting businessman, magazine and newspaper publisher. Newhouse is the namesake of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the founder of the current empire of Advance Publications, now run by his son Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. One of the vessels of the Staten Island Ferry is also named after him.

Robert Worth Bingham was a politician, judge, newspaper publisher and American Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He attended the University of North Carolina and University of Virginia but did not graduate. He moved to Louisville in the 1890s and received a law degree from the University of Louisville in 1897. He formed his own practice with W.W. Davies. Bingham married into a wealthy family in 1896. He became involved in Louisville politics as a registered Democrat, …

Shari Redstone is president of National Amusements and vice-chairwoman of CBS Corporation and Viacom. She is the daughter of Sumner Redstone and Phyllis Gloria Raphael and 1975 graduate of Tufts University. She has three children with her former husband that all reside in New York City. She was married to Grand Rabbi Yitzhak Aharon Korff. The marriage ended in divorce.

Cy N. Bahakel (April 12, 1919 - April 20, 2006) was a North Carolina state Senator and an American media magnate. Bahakel was born to a poor Lebanese family in Birmingham, Alabama on April 12, 1919. He helped pay his way through law school at the University of Alabama by doing sports play-by-play and other announcing duties at Tuscaloosa's WJRD-AM radio, a sideline that made him question his goals to become a lawyer.

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr., nicknamed Si Newhouse, is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications and chairman of Condé Nast Publications, which owns magazines like "Vogue, Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker" among many others. He is the son of Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., founder of Advance Publications. His grandson, S.I. Newhouse IV, appeared in the documentary "Born Rich".

Clyde Eber Palmer (August 24, 1876 - July 4, 1957) was the owner of a chain of newspapers and radio stations and a television outlet covering southwestern Arkansas and part of northeastern Texas during the early to middle 20th century. He operated his media conglomerate from Texarkana, Texas.

Ronald Crider owned radio stations in Florida and Colorado. Built the first FM stereo station in the Republic of Panama, built pirate radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. Co founder of Lodestar Tower, builder of tall broadcast and communications towers in Orlando, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Charlotte in the 1980s. Co founder of the GAB satellite radio network and the Radio Colorado Network.

Donald W. Reynolds (1906-1993) was an American businessman and philanthropist. During his lifetime, he was best known for his involvement in the Donrey Media Group.

Charles E. Scripps was chairman of the board of the E. W. Scripps Company, a media conglomerate founded by his grandfather, Edward W. Scripps. Under his leadership the company was transformed from a family-owned newspaper publisher into a major publicly traded media company with major cable television operations. Charles Scripps was born to Robert Paine Scripps and Margaret Culbertson Scripps on January 27, 1920, in San Diego, California.

Walter E. Hussman Jr. (born 1947), is a third-generation newspaper publisher and chief executive officer of a mass media conglomerate known as WEHCO. He is the publisher of the "Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" in Little Rock, the largest newspaper in Arkansas. He directs a chain of smaller newspapers too, including the "Texarkana Gazette", "Hot Springs" "Sentinel Record", and the "Camden" "News".