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  • transnational media corporations
    / Rise of TNMCs

    A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the 1960s saw the majority of the Hollywood studios become part of larger diversified corporations (e.g., in 1962, MCA Inc. acquired Universal). Shifting patterns of investment and deregulation in the 1970s facilitated further restructuring of these firms to become ever-larger media and entertainment…

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    A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the 1960s saw the majority of the Hollywood studios become part of larger diversified corporations (e.g., in 1962, MCA Inc. acquired Universal). Shifting patterns of investment and deregulation in the 1970s facilitated further restructuring of these firms to become ever-larger media and entertainment…

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