Brief introduction and detailed information of time warner Inc. Company.

Company Profile time warner Inc. Company has always been famous for its high quality and excellence. Since the establishment of 1903 (traceable history) company, time warner Inc. company has been the most respected and successful cultural company in the world, and has become the industry leader within the business scope of time warner Inc. company ... time warner Inc. company's success stems from its ability to attract and gather the best talents in the world. Therefore, time warner Inc. Company has always regarded talents as the most important resource of the company, strived to create a good environment for the growth of talents, and adopted an open, inclusive and transcendent employment concept to recruit talents from all over the world.

Time warner Inc. Co., Ltd./KLOC-Cable at the end of 0/9, Benjamin Warner, the father of global commercial films, four sons: Harry Warner (1881-KLOC-0/958) and Albert Warner (1883-/KLOC-).

19 18, four brothers, Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner and Jack Warner, established Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, headquartered in burbank, California, USA. Later, it became the largest film and television entertainment production company in the world.

1927, Warner Bros. Entertainment Company was sued by the federal court for violating the anti-monopoly law of the United States, so it dared not separate the cinema business from the main body of the company, established Warner Universal Film Equipment Company, and established the world's first commercial cinema in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which opened the grand prelude to the century-old legend of this cinema empire.

Its business, film and television entertainment business, the headquarters of time warner Inc. Company, has always been in a leading position in the world in feature films, television, home videos, animation and production/trademark licensing. These films are Harry Potter series, Matrix series, Superman series, Batman series, The Shawshank Redemption, Inception, blade runner, Sparta 300 Warriors, Watchmen and Sherlock Holmes series. Time warner Inc Inc.' s New Line Film Company is another well-known independent producer and distributor, and the fantasy blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings Series" is produced by it.

Cable TV services include CNN, TBS, HBO, Cinemax, cartoon Neork and TN.

Warner-owned television station

T and WB TV networks (now merged into CW TV station)?

Time warner Inc Inc. Cable TV Company provides cable TV services to 654.38 million+02.8 million American users.

Time Company was founded by two college students, Henry Luce and Britten Harden. At first, they published a Newsweek, and then they started other magazines about life, people and sports. As pioneers of magazine publishing, news reporting and photo news, they played an indelible role in promoting the news publishing industry throughout the 20th century.

Warner Bros. was also founded in 1923. 1927, Warner Bros. became famous for shooting the first feature film "Jazz Singer". Other classic films of Warner Bros. are Casablanca (1942) and Rebellion for No Reason (1957).

Turner Broadcasting Corporation (TBS) was founded much later than the first two. 1980, the company launched a 24-hour priority news network CNN, which greatly changed TV news.

Since 1950s, Time Company has invested in HBO and Cinemax, radio and cable TV networks, thus expanding itself into other fields. 1973, this ambitious publishing giant even acquired Temple, a timber producer, and prepared to enter the paper industry. Ten years later, the plan was finally doomed.

1972, Warner Corporation changed its name to Warner Communications Corporation, and eventually became the main force in the music and cable TV industries. 1990, Warner Bros. was acquired by Time Company for14 billion dollars, and finally formed time warner Inc. Company. Six years later, Ted Turner agreed to sell TBS for $7.6 billion, and TBS officially joined the family of time warner Inc. Inc., thus making time warner Inc. the largest media company in the world.

With the great impact of Inter Milan and "new media" technology, the world's largest media company is being swallowed up by AOL, a new trend maker.

On the evening of February 9th, 65438+ Taipei time, according to foreign media reports today, AOL and time warner Inc Inc. officially started the spin-off transaction, ending the marriage of the two companies for nearly 10 years. According to the spin-off agreement, for every 1 1 share of time warner Inc. company, eligible shareholders will get 1 share of AOL stock. AOL shares will start trading on Thursday, and the stock code before the merger of the two companies will be restored. But AOL's current market value is about $2.5 billion, only 65,438+00% of its peak value.

The publishing industry publishes more than 64 magazines. Among the five best-selling magazines in the United States, time warner Inc. Company occupies four, namely Time Magazine, People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune. In addition, other famous magazines include Entertainment Weekly, Fortune magazine and InStyle.

Owns Warner's brand TV station CNN: Cable News Channel.

HBO, Cinemax, Turner Classic Movie: Cable TV Movie Channel TBS

Super station, TNT, CW TV? Cartoon Neork: cable TV entertainment channel

AOL and its assets:

CompuServe: internet service provider

Netscape: the manufacturer of portals and browsers.

ICQ, AIM: Instant Messaging Software Mapquest: Internet Map and Guide Website time warner Inc. Company Cable TV: Cable TV Company.

Time magazine: Newsweek

People magazine: celebrity weekly

Sports illustrated: sports magazine

Crazy magazine: humor magazine

Warner Bros. Entertainment (2)

Fortune and Money Magazine: Finance and Investment Magazine

Warner Bros. Film Company, HBO Pay Station

New line film: film company

NBA Atlanta Hawks: DC Comics, the baseball team of Major League Baseball, time warner Inc. also owns several other TV stations and magazines, including CNN Headlines, Entertainment Weekly and Time Life.

Flixster, a famous social movie website, is a rotten tomato film review website.

Time warner Inc. Company 1903, Warner filmed the first Broadway musical "The Golddigger".

1924, Warner opened the era of sound movies.

1927, Warner established the world's first commercial cinema.

1928, the world's first electric film projector WN906 13A was born in Warner.

193 1 year, Warner film and television equipment entered the China market for the first time.

1935, Warner opened the lottery era.

195 1 year, Warner launched the world's first chain cinema brand.

1973, Warner launched the second-generation cinema chain business model.

1988, Warner created a 3D movie.

1989, Warner's third-generation cinema swept the world.

In 2005, Warner began to explore the fourth-generation cinema business model.

20 10 warner studios entered China strongly.

Business Strategy time warner Inc. Company acquired magazines, movies, television, internet and other media through mergers and acquisitions, and truly realized cross-media operation. Through "resource sharing", movies, TV, books, Internet and other media can be used to copy and copy a product of a media group in time for distribution, and when the product is downloaded, it will be converted into videotape, DVD, CD, cable TV, wireless TV programs and other forms for diachronic copying and copying. Cross-media groups share the content cost through as many communication and distribution channels as possible, in order to obtain greater benefits, and at the same time make the characteristics of different media form complementary advantages and play a synergistic effect.

Interaction between magazines and other media

Time Company is one of the pioneers in the combination of magazines and the Internet. Time magazine was the first full-text magazine to go online, and then other magazines of Time Company went online one after another, publishing magazine contents on the Internet to attract advertisers. Times also has many forms of cooperation with TV, such as planning and producing TV programs and establishing websites.

Interaction between magazines and other media

Time warner Inc.'s film business crosses and cooperates closely with cable TV channels such as HBO, Cinemax, Turner Classic Film Network and Cartoon Network. Warner movies provide rich content for cable TV channels, and at the same time, they also get a broad broadcast channel, while HBO will also make some low-cost movies, sometimes playing them in theaters first. Time warner Inc.'s film companies all have their own websites, which provide customers with various services based on film resources, such as online movies, music, cartoon programs and games, and effectively promote and publicize movies. The company film will focus on the good books of the times, and at the same time promote the book distribution through the strong appeal of the film; Music in movies can't be separated from the elaborate production and packaging of record companies. A good film concert greatly enhances the charm of the film, and the screening of the film will promote the popularization of music works. Stars in animation movies will promote the sales of animation toys and the development of game industry; Scenes, characters and plots in movies can also be used to build theme parks, which can make full use of movie resources.

Interaction between CATV, Internet and Other Media

In addition to the basic TV services, time warner Inc. Company also cooperates with several ISP companies on the cable network platform to provide users with a variety of Internet service options, mainly video, data and voice services, with the characteristics of personalization and multimedia interaction. Time warner Inc Inc.' s cable TV has become the leader of the company's profit growth by cooperating with Internet service providers. The immediacy, interactivity and integration with any other media of online media determine its unlimited development prospects. This is also the reason why time warner Inc. merged with AOL. After the merger, the company has made a lot of efforts in the interaction between old and new media and achieved great results.

Important M&A Separation between AOL and time warner Inc. Inc. June 65438 +0654381October 65438+July 2009, time warner Inc. Inc. announced that it would spin off its Internet business AOL and become an independent company on February 9, 65438. This statement of returning to "freedom" also means that this nine-year-old wrong marriage, known as "the worst enterprise merger case in history", has finally come to an end.

Time warner Inc. Inc., a media giant whose brands include CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., said that holders of time warner Inc.'s shares registered as of 1 October 27th will exchange1AOL's ordinary shares for every1time warner Inc.'s ordinary shares. According to the closing price of $32.35 of time warner Inc. Company1October 6th, AOL is now worth about $3.4 billion. As early as 200 1, 1, when time warner Inc. announced the acquisition of AOL, the market value of the latter was as high as163 billion US dollars.

As the saying goes, women are afraid of marrying the wrong husband. For listed companies, a blind and wrong merger will bring devastating consequences. Due to the blind merger with AOL from June, 5438 to October, 2000, when the Internet bubble economy burst, time warner Inc. Company suffered a huge blow. According to industry insiders, the online Internet access business in the United States has been declining for a long time, and the online advertising business is also struggling.

Judging from the performance of AOL in China market, this is a tragic ending. 200 1, AOL and Lenovo set up a joint venture company, and invested $ * * 1 billion to launch the Chinese portal FM365. However, this effort did not succeed. The joint venture closed in 2004, and FM365 was subsequently acquired. In April 2008, AOL returned to Chinese mainland Internet.

Net market, but less than a year later, it withdrew again in March 2009.

The relevant person in charge of time warner Inc. Company said that the company planned to split AOL as early as May 2009, and now it has finally taken place.

At&T Company. T acquisition local time Saturday night (Taipei time 20161kloc-0/October 23rd), American telecom giant AT & amp； T reached a merger and acquisition deal with the country's media company time warner Inc. for $85.4 billion; This transaction is the largest single M&A transaction in the world since 20 16, and will reshape the pattern of American media industry.

At&T will buy time warner Inc. Company at the price of $65,438+007.5 per share, with half cash and half stock. The transaction will enable AT & amp； T broadcasts the program content provided by time warner Inc. Company on its mobile phone, TV and Internet broadband channels.

Time warner Inc. has two well-known content providers, CBS and CNN. This merger will help AT & amp； T Open up the upstream and downstream of the media industry and distribute the content produced by time warner Inc. Company to AT & amp； T has millions of mobile wireless network users, broadband users and satellite TV connection systems.

2017165438+1On October 20th, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against AT&; T filed a lawsuit, saying that at & amp； The 854 billion acquisition of time warner Inc. Company is illegal, because it involves monopoly and harms the rights and interests of consumers.

On June 20 12 18, Richard Leon, a judge of the federal district court for the district of Columbia, ruled that American telecom operator AT & amp； It is legal for T Company to buy time warner Inc. Company for $85.4 billion. The result of this judgment is AT & amp； T paved the way for the acquisition of TV channels such as HBO and CNN and assets such as Warner Bros. Film Company.

Market position accounts for 24% of advertising revenue of American consumer magazines.

The world's largest online instant messaging software (ICQ)

The world's largest online map service provider

The world's largest Internet access service provider (with 30 million American users and 6 million international users in 16 countries) provides access services for 75% Internet users in the United States.

The richest cable TV channel in the United States (TBS has 80 million American viewers)

The cable news channel with the largest customer base in the United States (CNN has 78 million American viewers and10.51100 million international users in 2 12 countries and regions).

The richest cable movie channel in the United States (HBO has 36.7 million American viewers,120,000 international users in 50 countries).

The second largest cable TV network operator in the United States

The largest film and television library in the world

The world's largest CD and DVD manufacturer

It has 64 magazines and 268 million readers.

Time warner Inc. Company has more than 200 branches all over the world. 1996, two-thirds of time warner Inc.'s revenue came from the United States, but their expectation of this figure was finally lower than 1/2. It can be seen that time warner Inc. Company has positioned itself as a global media group, and it hopes that its global business strategy can * * * develop itself.

Time warner Inc. Company is the absolute winner, and it is the main operator of any media type and any media content form in the world. It owns the following "properties":

(1) 24 magazines such as Time, Fortune, People and Sports Illustrated. Time Publishing Company was split up? )

(2) The second largest publisher in the world, including Time Life Books (42% of the publications are from outside the United States) and the Book of the Month Club.

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Music companies, one of the largest music companies in the world, have more than 62% revenue from outside the United States;

Turner TV network

(4)? Warner Bros. Film Company is also a major TV program production company in the world;

(5) time warner Inc. Company is one of the major shareholders of WB. WB is an American TV network founded in 1995, which provides distribution services for time warner Inc.'s films and TV programs ... WB also owns Tribune's 16 TV station, which can cover 25% TV users in the United States. Now it has merged with UPN TV network under CBS to form CW TV network.

(6) time warner Inc. Company is the world's top television academy company, with more than 65,438+0,000 cinemas outside the United States;

(7) owns 50% of the shares of DC Comics Company, which is the publisher of more than 60 plays such as Superman and Batman;

(8) HBO, the world's largest pay cable TV channel, produces famous TV dramas such as Brothers, Game of Thrones, Empire by the Sea and True Blood.

(9) pay cable movie channels;

( 10)? New Line Film Company, DC Comics Company (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Justice League and other superheroes and groups)

DC Comics Company

(1 1) owns the second largest cable TV system in the United States, and controls the top 22 cable TV stations in this market 100;

(12) has a database of more than 6,000 movies, more than 25,000 TV programs, books, music and thousands of cartoons for commercial purposes;

(13) Multiple American or global cable TV channels, including CNN CNN headline news; CNN, Airport Channel, TBS, TurnerClassic Neork and CNN SI Sports News Channel;

(14) and Wycombe * * * both hold 50% of the shares of Comedy Central Channel;

(15) owns 33% equity of Sega Cable Channel; Classified statistics of media business volume;

(16) and NBC*** both hold 33% of the shares of Court TV Channel.

Like News Corp, time warner Inc. also focuses on the global television industry, focusing on developing television into the most profitable business. However, the difference between time warner Inc. Company and News Corporation is that it is committed to producing programs and launching channels, rather than developing the entire satellite system. After attracting the share capital of Japanese consortia Itochu and Toshiba, time warner Inc. established a cable TV company-titus Communication Company in Japan, and has since gained a firm foothold in the Japanese market, becoming a joint entity of American telecommunications companies and directly competing with news group JskyB.

Time warner Inc. Company is also one of the largest cinema owners in the world, with about 65,438+0,000 cinemas outside the United States, and is still in the process of further expansion. Time warner Inc. also plans to link its Turner global network CNN, TNT/ Cartoon Channel, HBO International Channel and the newly established Warner Channel to form a powerful TV channel facing the global market, and develop global users with the help of wired networks and digital satellite systems.

Warner China 193 1, Shanghai? Wu Yongfeng, the head of the famous foreign firm Wu Yongfeng, is not far from Wan Li. He bought several WN90628H manual and electric dual-purpose movie projectors produced by Warner Universal Pictures Equipment Company from America on the other side of the ocean to set up the largest cinema in the Far East at that time. At this point, Warner Universal Pictures has forged an indissoluble bond with China for nearly a century.

The theater provided by Warner Universal Pictures Equipment Company with full projection equipment and technical support is called Daguangming Cinema. Located at No.216, Nanjing West Road, it was founded at 1928, and was co-founded by Gao Yongqing, a trendy businessman, and Albert Warner, an American (one of the founders of Warner Company). At that time, it cost 6.5438 million silver, which was called "the first cinema in the Far East". It used to be the first commercial cinema and the first stereoscopic cinema in China, leaving its own footprint in the history of China movies, and at the same time drawing the track of the development of film projection technology in China.

At the beginning of the establishment of Daguangming Cinema, it was a smash hit in Shanghai. In the 1920s and 1930s, almost half of the films released in Great Bright were Warner's films. A "boy" in overalls and a cylindrical flat-topped hat will open the door and respectfully invite the audience into the hall. There is a description of the film shown that day at the entrance of the ticket office. The description is bilingual in Chinese and English. Printing, arrangement and content are very exquisite and beautiful. In addition to the film content, film company name, credits, posters, stills, etc. It was also printed. Poetic propaganda words are very popular with fans, and the audience who enter the stadium can read them for free. Because all the original movies are shown in the cinema, each seat is equipped with a "translation" to play stories and dialogues to the audience through headphones.

However, the good times did not last long. 1937, Japan's war of aggression against China broke out in an all-round way, and Daguangming Cinema was in trouble. In that year, it lost/kloc-0.0832 million, which was bought by Glanmark, the manager of American International Mortgage Company. Glanmark became the chairman of Daguangming Cinema. In September, the original landowner complained to the American provincial judge in Shanghai about the four-month rent owed by Daguangming Cinema, totaling more than 30,000 taels, and demanded to clean up the Daguangming film company industry. Chairman Glanmark approached Warner Universal Pictures to discuss cooperation. Soon, the management of Daguangming Cinema was taken over by Warner Universal Pictures Equipment Company of the United States until the liberation of Shanghai1May, 949.

In 2002, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television began to implement the reform of the cinema system in the cinema market. At that time, Warner Bros. and Shanghai Film Yongle jointly established Shanghai Yongle International Studios, which opened the curtain for Warner Cinema to settle in China.

In September, 2003, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television's Order No.21was regarded as a turning point in the development of Warner Bros. in China. The document shows that the proportion of Chinese investment in the registered capital of Sino-foreign joint venture cinemas is still not less than 565,438+0%; However, in some pilot cities, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Nanjing. The proportion of foreign investors in the registered capital is allowed to rise to 75%.

In August 2005, the Ministry of Culture and other five ministries and commissions issued a new document saying that the policy of 75% foreign investment in pilot cities should be abolished and the policy of 49% before 2003 should be restored. In fact, this policy did not cause much controversy at that time. Four months later, Jon Green II, vice president of operations of Warner Bros., even revealed Warner's new plan in China: six new cinemas in Chongqing, Changsha and other cities have entered the planning stage.

From the end of June, 5438 to February, 2005, due to a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television limiting the proportion of foreign investment in China cinemas, time warner Inc. Company quickly withdrew from a number of cooperative cinemas, and the related cinemas were later taken over by real estate tycoon Zhang Baoquan and China Film Group.

July, 2008 15 AOL, a website owned by time warner Inc. Company of the United States, recently quietly launched a simplified Chinese website, which means that AOL has taken the most substantial step to return to the Chinese mainland market.

On March 10, 2009, according to insiders of AOL China, a website of time warner Inc. Company, due to the financial crisis, the US headquarters of the company decided to cancel its business in Chinese mainland. This means that this American website quit again less than a year after returning to the Chinese mainland market.

Six years after Kloc-0 left Chinese mainland on 20/0/0, Warner Universal Pictures once again entered China, joined hands with the International Film Industry Alliance, and jointly established Shenzhen time warner Inc. Film and Television Equipment Co., Ltd., taking the first step to enter the China cinema market.

From 193 1, Warner's first film projection equipment was registered in China, and on 20 10, Shenzhen time warner Inc. Film and Television Equipment Co., Ltd. was jointly established, opening a new era for China G4 Cinema. Warner witnessed the centennial growth of China films, which also indicates that Warner will continue to write a new brilliant chapter of China films at this new historical starting point.

International company ● Warner Universal Film Equipment Company, USA

● Texas Instruments, USA

● Wastak Equity Investment Group

● US Baishengke Financial Holding Group

● Royal Dutch Audio-visual Technology R&D Center

● France Anqin Company

● Kinoton Company of Germany

The International Film Industry Alliance was established on August 7, 2005. It is an international film industry mutual assistance and cooperation organization initiated by Warner Universal Pictures, which unites international film industry giants and internationally renowned film industry supporting equipment manufacturers. The headquarters (where the Alliance Secretariat is located) is located in new york, USA, and the Asia-Pacific branch secretariat is located in Hongkong, China. The alliance is committed to building the world's largest purchasing and inquiry platform for the cinema industry. The Alliance started to set up branches in Greater China in May 20 12, which will provide the richest global supply chain for domestic cinema equipment procurement.

Time warner Inc. time warner Inc. University Cinema Management College will become the first vocational skill training institution in China with cinema management as its running direction. The College aims to cultivate and train professional management talents for the cinema industry in China, and is committed to establishing a perfect educational export system and an internal training system for external talents for nearly 4,000 cinemas in China.

Creating a New Mode —— time warner Inc. Company's Concept of "Fourth Generation Cinema" —— Inside G4 Cinema

Time warner Inc. Company launched the "fourth generation cinema" G4 Cinema inside cinema complex model, which created a brand-new cinema-centered consumption format.

● Space diversification-audio-visual space, reception space, communication space, interactive space, consumption space, emotional space, business space and working space ● Theater culture-distinctive personality, prominent theme and humanized design.

● Interactive experience-interactive experience based on AR technology.

Cinema standard The first generation cinema-before the 1990s, it was represented by the old-fashioned cinema with single hall and single room. The second generation cinema-1995 or so, located in the commercial street, represented by multi-function hall and digital cinema. But it has not yet formed a real business circle format. The third generation cinema-from 2000 to now, cinema has really become a format of modern commerce. Formally, it is further upgraded on the basis of digital cinema, which can play its own movies, including 3D movies, and the supporting facilities are relatively complete. The fourth generation cinema began to appear in the United States in 2008, and the Wechat business complex with the film city as the main body appeared. This is a brand-new movie experience that integrates leisure, entertainment, catering and shopping.

3D leading the world 3D road d is the prefix of English Dimension, and 3D refers to three-dimensional space. Since its birth in 1950s, 3D movies have been favored by fans. After more than 60 years of development, 3D cinema has become the development trend of cinema construction in the world. Although 4D and 5D film technologies appeared later, it will never shake the dominant position of 3D film technology. It can be seen that 3D cinema will remain the mainstream of cinema industry for a long time to come. In the development of 3D cinema technology for more than 60 years, it has gone through several technical stages, such as light splitting technology, color separation technology and time sharing technology. 3D technology is becoming more and more mature and advanced. When the "post-3D era" is coming to us, where is the future development of 3D cinema? The picture of time warner Inc. Company will take us to imagine the future "3D+" technology. The embarrassment of 4D and 5D Once upon a time, the concept of "4D and 5D" was put forward by many game companies as hype, aiming to seize the technical commanding heights of the "post-3D era". However, 4D and 5D cinemas can never be compared with mainstream 3D cinemas, and even cannot enter the ordinary digital cinema market at all. The reason is that, on the one hand, 4D and 5D technologies are based on 3D film technology, but it is difficult to make further breakthroughs in the audience's sensory experience; On the other hand, due to the influence of film production and film source, normal movies can't be shown, and only small movies and microfilms within 10 minutes can be shown. At the same time, the scale of the cinema is limited, so it can't compete with ordinary digital cinemas, and it is even more difficult to be elegant. This is the embarrassment of 4D and 5D film technology. What is 3D+ 3D+ cinema technology? It is a brand-new exploration of the existing 3D film projection technology put forward by time warner Inc. Entertainment Games Company at the 23rd International Cinema Equipment Expo held in Miami, USA in May, 201/. Its connotation is a breakthrough ultra-3D cinema technology that combines augmented reality (AR technology for short) and virtual reality (VR for short) on the basis of existing 3D technology. Its biggest feature is that it does not change the physical structure of the film source and cinema, so that ordinary cinemas have the function of showing surreal movies. The projected 3D movies will be more realistic than ordinary 3D movies, and cinemas can add functions other than 3D special effects according to their own conditions, such as smoke, lightning, fragrance and vibration. All kinds of experiences in these 4D and 5D movies can completely appear in normal 3D movie screening. Who is in charge of ups and downs in the post-3D era? The post-3D movie era is coming to us. Who will dominate the rise and fall of cinemas in the future? 4D and 5D movies may never cross the mountains of ordinary digital cinemas, and 3D movies will soon come to the end of innovation and development in the development process of more than 60 years. Looking around the world, it seems that only 3D+ technology is more in line with the cinema development trend in the post-3D era. We have reason to believe that in the near future, 3D+, as a brand-new cinema technical standard, will be recognized and generally accepted by Chinese people.