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The article below can only be found in google cache here [ http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Gx2zKDdfKCkJ:www.eastandard.net/reports/rep11040403.htm+%22Josiah+Mwangi+Kariuki%22&hl=en] I pasted it here for availability since google cache is bound to expire. How bossom friends robbed JM family of its property By Murithi Mutiga Three weeks ago today, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, popularly known as JM, the restless patriot whose populist politics earned him an assassin’s bullet in March 1975, would have turned 75.

The milestone of JM’s diamond anniversary, like that of his assassination two weeks before his birthday, was hardly observed publicly and went completely unacknowledged by the Government. His family marked the occasions with sombre dignity in a series of commemorative events in the capital.

Investigations by the’Sunday Standard,’though, reveal that 29 years after JM was killed by government forces pricked by his constant criticism of their plundering ways, his family still reels under the unrelenting wounds inflicted by JM’s friends and foes, with the covert aid of officialdom in successive governments.

Although he was arguably one of the wealthiest Kenyans at the time of his death, his family can hardly lay claim to any of his vast estate today.

The family, we can reveal for the first time, has lived for years under the shadow of intelligence surveillance, culminating in forcible dispersal by the notorious Special Branch police officers in Nairobi in 1995 as they planned events to mark the 20th anniversary of JM’s assassination.

And despite the inauguration of a new government headed by the man nominally appointed family guardian in the wake of JM’s murder and which counts in its ranks erstwhile opposition advocates for the "Justice for JM" cause, the Kibaki administration has announced it has no intention of reopening the case.

"An assassin’s conflict with the dead does not end with their death," says Koigi wa Wamwere, who was sent to detention by President Kenyatta shortly after JM’s death and who has dedicated a whole chapter of his autobiographical work, I Refuse to Die, to JM.

"An assassin must carry on his conflict with the dead and take it to those who live on and are seen to keep the offensive ideas of the dead man alive."

In JM’s case it would appear the assassins killed the man, then went for his property, and later decided to haunt and hound his family for years on end.

Information gleaned from exclusive interviews with family members and independent investigations carried out by the Sunday Standard reveals that at the time of his death, JM Kariuki commanded an impressive investment portfolio that included some of the nation’s biggest blue-chip holdings.

He was a substantial shareholder in the showpiece International Casino entertainment complex where he regularly spent his evenings and was seen with former police chief Ben Gethi on the day he disappeared. He also held shares in the giant Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC), Kedong Ranching in Naivasha, Motor Mart, CMC Motors, British American Tobacco (BAT), Pan African Investments Company Limited, Lonrho Motors East Africa and Kenya Breweries.

He also held interests in Standard Chartered Bank Limited, Unga Group as well as Car and General.

Documents also show that he held shares, jointly with then Vice-President Daniel arap Moi and Eric Bomett (Moi’s brother-in-law), in Rift Valley African Agencies, a property company.

Apart from a stable of racehorses, JM was also proprietor of a tour company, which he owned jointly with Israeli businessman Ernest Kahane and is also reputed to have owned a charter aircraft based at the Wilson Airport.

Information obtained from oral interviews with family members which could not, however, be corroborated independently, also indicated that JM owned a number of mines in Zambia and Mozambique where he was a regular visitor.

He also owned, in partnership with a number of friends, several properties in Nairobi’s Kirinyaga Road (formerly Grogan Road) and additionally held the title for at least five major land parcels around the country measuring thousands of hectares.

Following his brutal murder on March 2 1975, JM’s business empire crumbled like a deck of cards.

Apparently, JM had gone into the bulk of his business ventures with a close-knit group of friends dominated by those with whom he had spent time in detention during the State of the Emergency in the 1950s.

Conscious of his tense relationship with the Kiambu elite that monopolised access to the then President, JM also involved a number of State House insiders in his businesses in the hope that their presence would deter his numerous enemies from targeting his business empire in retaliation to his politics.

Immediately after his death, these friends and associates, including several former and serving members of government, conspired to rob his family of its stake in virtually all the companies in which JM had an interest.

"Like any other businessman," says JM’s half brother Benny Kanyi Waweru, "JM had taken loans. Some of his partners and associates took advantage and progressively divided the property between themselves. Because the family was in the dark on the precise position of his estate, we would just see advertisements putting up the properties for auction in the papers and that would be that."

The family points the finger of blame for their being in the dark on the precise position of JM’s estate at senior counsel Lee Muthoga, who was JM’s lawyer and bosom friend. Muthoga is now a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda (ICTR).

Says Doris Nyambura, Kariuki’s first wife: "Shortly after JM’s funeral, Muthoga called us together (JM’s three wives and one other relative) and asked me to get a certain blue file which JM had given me a long time ago.

"I extracted it from the safe where I had kept it," she recalls. "I thought he was going to read us the will. I did not suspect anything because Muthoga was like a member of the family whom JM had helped a lot by paying fees for and helping to start his law firm.

"Instead of reading it to us," says Doris,"Muthoga sat by the fireside and plucked page by page, reading each of them and then throwing all of them into the fire."

Muthoga’s explanation for his actions to the family at the time was that the documents he had torched were damaging income tax records, which would have been injurious to the family if discovered by government.

The family does not, however, buy the explanation and believes that he destroyed documents that contained vital information on JM’s estate.

An expose of the subject in the fiery anti-establishment Nairobi Law Monthly — run by lawyer-politician Gitobu Imanyara — as shown by documents in our possession, forced the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to rescind an invitation to Muthoga to chair the society’s committee on professional conduct and ethics in 1994.

In time, most of JM’s estate fell into the hands of a cabal of well-connected government mandarins to the exclusion of the surviving family members in a series of quiet underhand deals. (A family source however pointed out that, to its credit, the Rift Valley African Agencies associated with former President Moi still pays out JM’s share dividends to the family).

The brazen plunder of the vast tracts of land owned by JM by the same forces that stripped him of his blue-chip possessions made no pretences at either subtlety or decorum.

At the time of his death, JM owned several large farms in Rift Valley and Central provinces, including the 1,600-hectare Kanyamwi Farm in Gilgil and the Riverside Farm in Ol Kalou, which measured 800 hectares.

He also owned the land on which Castle Inn stands on the outskirts of Nairobi and a residential property in Ngong. His family is additionally involved in a protracted legal battle with businessman Dominic Gatheca, a relation of former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta, over the ownership of a 45-acre piece of prime land next to the Ruaraka Kenya Breweries plant.

In mid 1981, JM’s widows and children received a stunning order from the Ol Kalou DO requiring them to urgently travel to Nyandarua to witness the "handing-over" of Riverside Farm to a group calling itself the Nyakinyua Ndorua Kanini Kega Farmers Company, whose members claimed to have been promised settlement on the farm by JM.

Furious family members swiftly proceeded to Ol Kalou where they lodged their objections. The matter was referred to then Nyandarua DC, Mr Philemon Mwaisaka (now Principal of the Utalii College), whose attempts at arbitration failed.

The family subsequently won a string of court cases over the dispute, but all attempts at getting the provincial administration or police to enforce an order to evict the squatters came to naught.

In 1993, the dispute came to national attention when the squatters violently attempted to repulse the family from burying JM’s father at the farm, next to the place where his son was laid to rest.

The same scene was replicated at the Gilgil farm, which was put up for sale by the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) over a loan JM owed the bank.

President Kibaki, then serving as Finance Minister, intervened and prevailed on the bank to give the family a grace period to organise how to offset the balance.

Attempts by the family to sell half of the 1,600-hectare piece of land were however bogged down by payment disputes with a number of parties who paid a deposit, occupied the land and subsequently refused to pay the balance. The land was put up for auction in 1996.

The family was similarly embroiled in ownership tussles over the Nairobi parcels of land. Remarkably, JM’s immediate family members are not too bothered by the intricacies of the business dealings three decades down the line.

On the contrary, it is the quest for justice and truth that festers like a wound that will not heal.

In an interview last week, Doris Nyambura, who is surprisingly sprightly and in good health despite her advanced years, and two of her children, Rosemary and Mark Kariuki, asked the Sunday Standard not to focus too much on the subject of JM’s earthly assets.

"It is the desire of the family that the truth on JM’s killers be revealed," said Doris.""Most of the things that JM fought for such as free education and a just Judiciary are being implemented by this government. But it is only fair that Kenyans be told who killed JM."

Despite the fact that there is a new administration in place, however, there was an additional reason why, 29 years down the line, Mrs Kariuki is reluctant to be drawn into the subject of those who robbed her husband’s estate.

"It is dangerous if these people read in the newspapers that I am saying they are squatting on our land. They might even kill me!" she said.

Some interesting links i came across in the course of research
You can find a picture of J.M. Kariuki amoung the pictures accessable from this link The link below point to an article about political succession AND related conflicts in Kenya. Long, but very informative For some reasons, google search for Kariuki pick this article, which to it a little bit too far by claiming Kenya problems are a result of UK media This is the most fun one, its written by an American Richard Gollé Cushing, who claim to have written a 65,000 words novel inspired by the murder. The novel's title is 'Too Pure for the Hyenas', but apparently no publisher would touch it with a 10 foot poll as it was very critical of the Kenyatta regime. It read like some who had visited Kenya for real and it is hosted on University of California, berkeley so it may have some weight. The author is however unlikely to be on line as he is over 80 years old now.

Margaret Thatcher remark
"This was somehow similar to what happened in UK when Margaret Thatcher engaged in her full scale Privatization" This statement may became a source of edit war in future, so i am going to back it up with this article. Quote "NEWLY ELECTED to a second term and possessed of a mandate to cut the "nanny state," Margaret Thatcher set out in 1984 to privatize Britain's state pension system. The result stands as a warning to the Bush administration. The Thatcher reforms empowered unscrupulous salesmen to press inappropriate savings accounts on unsophisticated workers; regulators ultimately required payment of some $24 billion in compensation to the victims. Last year 500,000 Britons who had opted out of the government pension system in favor of private accounts returned ruefully to nanny." From

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If anybody know how this guy got rich, it would be cool to update the article thanks

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PCU (film)

PCU is a 1994 American comedy film written by Adam Leff and Zak Penn and directed by Hart Bochner about college life at the fictional Port Chester University, and represents "an exaggerated view of contemporary college life". The film is based on the experiences of Leff and Penn at Eclectic Society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Plot
Preppy pre-freshman (pre-frosh) Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University (PCU), a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant. During his visit, accident-prone Tom makes enemies with nearly every group of students, and thus spends much of his visit evading the growing mob after him.

During his visit, Tom finds himself in the middle of a war between "The Pit" and "Balls and Shaft", two rival groups. Among the members of the latter is Rand McPherson, who, with the other Balls and Shaft members, want the outlawed Greek system to return.

Meanwhile, "The Pit" runs the former "Balls and Shaft" frat house in a highly disorganized manner. Inhabited by seniors Gutter and Mullaney, mid-year freshman co-ed Katy, and led by multi-year senior James "Droz" Andrews, The Pit is a party-centric house that rebels against politically correct protests; their counter-protests and parties are a frequent source of complaint forms.

Other factions on campus include a commune-style house of pot users called Jerrytown that Gutter frequents, a radical feminist group known as the Womynists, an Afrocentric group suspecting the Pit of conspiring against them, and the college president, Ms. Garcia-Thompson, who is obsessed with enforcing "sensitivity awareness" and multiculturalism to an extreme. She proposes that Bisexual Asian Studies should have its own building at the expense of funding for STEM facilities, as well as a plan to change the campus mascot to a whooping crane instead of an offensive Native American character during their bicentennial anniversary.

Garcia-Thompson conspires behind closed doors with Balls and Shaft to get the established residents of The Pit kicked off campus and give Rand control of the house. She provokes The Pit residents with a damage bill from their past semester. Left unpaid, the campus would seize their house, leaving them homeless and unable to continue attending PCU without getting jobs.

The Pit responds by throwing a party to raise the funds needed. The Womynists take offense to The Pit's flyers advertising the party and hold a protest outside as the house residents conspire to steal alcohol and convince students to attend. The party at first appears to be a failure. However, a series of unlikely events results in George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic performing at the party. Students begin streaming in (initially to seize Tom for his prior mistakes) and the party successfully raises the funds to keep the house.

Garcia-Thompson (after being locked in a room by Droz with the song "Afternoon Delight" playing on repeat), decides to act on the many complaints against The Pit. She shuts down the party and expels the residents of The Pit in spite of their fundraising efforts. Tom then informs Droz about an overheard conversation with the Board of Trustees: the President's politically correct changes are negatively affecting both their past legacy and media publicity.

At the bicentennial ceremony the following morning, Droz and former Pit residents succeed in liberating the Whooping Crane and provoking the other students into an impromptu protest against protesting (chanting "We're not gonna protest!"). The demonstration establishes that even with The Pit shut down, the President cannot control the student population, resulting in the Board of Trustees summarily firing her. Meanwhile, Rand goes on a rather sexist, racist and homophobic tirade about all the other student groups, unaware that Droz has surreptitiously used the podium microphone to broadcast his rant to the entire campus.

Later, Tom heads home, having decided to commit to PCU as The Pit has moved back into their house. As he sits on the bus, he sees Rand, who is now in Tom's position at the beginning of the film: being chased by the students across campus.

Cast
The Pit
 * Jeremy Piven as James "Droz" Andrews
 * Chris Young as Tom Lawrence
 * Alex Désert as Mullaney
 * Jon Favreau as Gutter
 * Megan Ward as Katy
 * Gale Mayron as Cecilia
 * Matt Ross as Raji
 * Jake Grace and Darin Heames as "The Daves"
 * Stivi Paskoski as Deege
 * Jody Racicot as Pigman

Balls & Shaft
 * David Spade as Rand McPherson
 * Kevin Jubinville as Carter Prescott
 * Thomas Mitchell as Bantam Draper

Womynist House
 * Sarah Trigger as Samantha
 * Viveka Davis as Womynist #1
 * Maddie Corman as Womynist #2

Jerrytown
 * Jake Busey as Mersh
 * Ted Kozma as Kosmo
 * Theo Caldwell as The Giggler

Group Leaders
 * Becky Thyre as Moonbeam (Cause-Heads)
 * Kevin Thigpen as Afrocentrist
 * Rob Gfroerer as Computer Geek
 * Jonathan Wilson as Gay Activist

The Establishment
 * Jessica Walter as President Garcia-Thompson
 * Colin Fox as Trustee #1
 * Larry Reynolds as Trustees #2

Others
 * George Clinton as himself
 * Parliament-Funkadelic appearing as themselves

Production
Jeremy Piven complains in the DVD audio commentary that actors were not allowed by the director to improvise at all. He was able to include some limited improvisation by appealing to the writers directly.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 50% based on reviews from 18 critics. On Metacritic the film has a score of 42% based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Roger Ebert said the film "begins with a terrific premise, but immediately loses faith in it." It has also been ranked among the ten best college movies by The Huffington Post.

With a budget of $8 million, it grossed $2,129,483 on opening weekend contributing to a final domestic total of $4,330,020.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack, released on May 10, 1994 by Fox / Arista, features songs from the feature film. Steve Vai wrote the score for the movie, which he would later release on his compilation album The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1. The album is notable for the Mudhoney's cover of Pump It Up.

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Kevin Moran (footballer)

Kevin Bernard Moran (born 29 April 1956) is an Irish former footballer who excelled at the top levels in two codes: Gaelic and the association brand. In Gaelic football, he is known for his time at senior level with the Dublin county team, winning two All-Ireland Senior Football Championships with them, and in association football for his career with Blackburn Rovers, Manchester United and Ireland. In 1985 he became the first man to be sent off in an FA Cup Final.

Early life
Moran grew up in Rialto, Dublin until his early teens, before he moved to the Long Mile Road in Walkinstown. While there, he attended James's Street CBS and Drimnagh Castle CBS where gaelic football was the dominant sport although association football proved to be the sport he played on the streets while growing up. During the period in which he played Gaelic football for Good Counsel and association football for Rangers, Bohemians and Pegasus, he had divided loyalties between the two sports, as both sports were then played on a Saturday.

Gaelic football
In his native Ireland, Moran played at senior level for the Dublin county team. A former Dublin under-21 player, Moran was called up to the senior panel for the first time in 1976. He won two All-Ireland Championship medals with Dublin in 1976 and 1977. In the 1976 final, he helped Dublin to defeat (by 3–8 to 0–10) Kerry — the winner over Dublin in the 1975 final – and again in the 1977 semi-final, aided by new tactics which manager Kevin Heffernan introduced, and which hindered Kerry's tactic of pulling defenders forward and taking full advantage of the space behind the half-back line. The 1977 final resulted in a 5–12 to 3–6 victory over Armagh at Croke Park. Moran was awarded an All-Star for his performance in the 1976 championship.

Moran was also part of the 1976–77 side that won the National Football League for Dublin with a win over Derry in the final. He played his club football for Dublin-based GAA club Good Counsel.

The 1978 Championship began after Moran had joined Manchester United, but before the start of their 1978–79 season. Moran sneaked back to Dublin to win a last Leinster Final on 30 July, after which Kevin Heffernan and Tony Hanahoe persuaded United manager Dave Sexton to release Moran for the All-Ireland semi-final and final, downplaying the physical risks involved. Moran was injured while Dublin lost the semi-final, ending the prospect of further releases.

Association football
With Bohs winning everything bar the FAI Cup in the 1974-75 League of Ireland season 18-year-old Moran did not have an opportunity for much game time and only made one League of Ireland appearance in the last game of the season on 17 April 1975. After Bohs he moved to UCD where in December 1975 he won the Collingwood Cup. In February 1976 Moran won the Universities Championship when he scored the winner for the Irish Universities against their Scottish counterparts Moran started playing as a full back with Bohemians F.C. and then Pegasus. He was spotted by Billy Behan, a Manchester United scout, who reported to Dave Sexton, and Moran signed for Manchester United in February 1978. He made his senior debut on 20 April 1979 against Southampton, and was a regular player in the first team by the time Ron Atkinson had succeeded Sexton as manager in June 1981. Despite not being the tallest of defenders, Kevin was known for his strong aerial ability and was a threat in the box from corners and set pieces.

Playing as a centre back, he won FA Cup medals with the club in 1983 and 1985.

Moran is notable for having been sent off in the 1985 FA Cup Final against Everton, the first player ever to be sent off in an FA Cup final. YouTube videos reveal that he was the last defender when he brought down Peter Reid with a two-footed foul tackle, without playing the ball. He was later presented with the winner's medal that had at first been withheld.

After 10 years with United, Moran left Old Trafford as a 32-year-old in the summer of 1988, having played his final 18 months at the club under the management of Alex Ferguson. His first team opportunities had been limited since the arrival of Steve Bruce in December 1987.

He transferred to Sporting Gijón, where he remained for two seasons, making 33 appearances without scoring. During his time at Sporting Gijón, Moran roomed with promising youngster and future Real Madrid and Barcelona star Luis Enrique. While with the Spanish side he was named as the Senior International Player of the Year at the inaugural FAI International Football Awards in 1989.

In 1990, he returned to England to join Second Division Blackburn Rovers. He was an automatic choice in the first team, but endured a disappointing first season at Ewood Park as Rovers finished 19th in the Second Division. The following season was a huge success, however, as playoff victory ended the club's 26-year exile from the top division and secured their place in the new Premier League. Moran continued in his role as club captain as Rovers finished fourth in 1992–93 and runners-up in 1993–94, and finally retired at the end of the 1993–94 season – one year before Rovers won their first league title in 81 years. In both seasons preceding Moran's retirement, Rovers were beaten to the title by his old club Manchester United.

Moran made his debut for the Republic of Ireland against Switzerland in 1980 and played a key role in Ireland's unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup finals in Spain. He played 71 times for Ireland between 1980 and 1994, including UEFA Euro 1988 in Germany and the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, and scored 6 goals. He was also a member of the Irish squad at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States, despite being 38 years old and about to retire from playing completely, but did not play due to an injury he picked up before the tournament started.

Later career
After retiring from football, Moran made a career in business. In 1994, he formed a football agency, Proactive Sports Management, with Paul Stretford and Jesper Olsen. His own clients include John O'Shea and Steve Finnan. Moran has also worked as a pundit on Irish television channel TV3.

Moran's brother Ray is a knee specialist known as "Dr Cruciate" and as a "'surgeon to the stars'", with clients including rock star Jon Bon Jovi and numerous athletes (such as Bernard Brogan, Colm Cooper, Brendan Maher, Alan Quinlan and Josh van der Flier). Moran sits on the board of his brother's Sports Surgery Clinic (SSC) in Santry, which opened in 2007.

Gaelic football
Dublin
 * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship: 1976, 1977
 * Leinster Senior Football Championship: 1976, 1977, 1978

Association football
Manchester United
 * FA Cup: 1982–83, 1984–85
 * FA Charity Shield: 1983

Individual
 * FAI Senior International Player of the Year: 1989

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WCGV-TV

WCGV-TV (channel 24) was a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, which operated from 1980 to 2018. In its latter years, it was owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV; it had common ownership with CW affiliate WVTV (channel 18). WCGV-TV's operations were last housed at WVTV's studio facilities on Milwaukee's northwest side; the station's transmitter was located on the Milwaukee PBS tower on North Humboldt Boulevard in Milwaukee's Estabrook Park neighborhood.

Established in 1980 as an independent station with part-time subscription television operation, WCGV-TV served as the first Fox affiliate for Milwaukee from 1987 to 1994. It then affiliated with UPN after it lost the Fox affiliation in a national realignment. After UPN was merged into The CW in 2006, it was aligned with MyNetworkTV.

On January 8, 2018, WCGV-TV's broadcast license was surrendered after Sinclair sold the station's spectrum in the 2016 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) incentive auction. At that time, the station's programming continued as subchannels of WVTV, continuing to use virtual channel 24. What was WCGV-TV's primary subchannel continues under the WVTV license as "My 24".

Establishment
WCGV-TV first signed on the air on March 24, 1980, under the ownership of B&F Broadcasting from the former North 27th Street facilities of then-CBS affiliate WITI (channel 6), which had moved to a new facility in Brown Deer two years earlier in 1978. At the time, it operated as an independent station and ran religious programs, older movies, cartoons and drama series during the day, along with select CBS and NBC programs that WITI and WTMJ-TV (channel 4) declined to air (such as the 1983 Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour and CBS Late Night). It also produced a two-hour local afternoon talk program called Tempo 24, which aired from 1980 to 1981. At night, the station ran programming from subscription television service SelecTV, which required a decoder box and a monthly subscription to view; SelecTV ran mostly first-run feature films, although Friday nights/early Saturday mornings outside of FCC-designated safe harbor hours consisted of adult programming from The Playboy Channel. WCGV dropped SelecTV in 1984 once Warner Cable launched its Milwaukee area operations and brought traditional premium cable networks (such as HBO and Showtime) to the area. It gradually became a more serious ratings contender against Milwaukee's leading independent, future sister station WVTV (channel 18). The station was branded simply as "TV-24". By then, the station had been acquired by Arlington Broadcasting, which also owned WTTO in Birmingham, WQTV (now WBPX-TV) in Boston and KNXV-TV in Phoenix; the latter two stations were later sold off.

Fox affiliation
On March 15, 1987, WCGV joined the infant network Fox in time for the network's April 5 prime time launch, later taking the branding of "Fox 24". The station joined Fox on the condition that it be allowed to preempt The Late Show, which by the time WCGV acquired the affiliation had lost Joan Rivers as its host and was not doing well in the ratings. The station also wanted to maintain as much of its existing schedule as possible, as WCGV had success counterprogramming the major network affiliates with a 10 p.m. block of two episodes of The Bob Newhart Show every weeknight until 1989, when it was replaced by the syndicated Arsenio Hall Show. From September 1993 until December 1994, the station also carried CBS' Late Show with David Letterman on a half-hour delay in lieu of WITI, which refused to carry the show due to better ratings for reruns of M*A*S*H in the timeslot.

By 1988, the station scored a major coup by acquiring the broadcast rights to the Milwaukee Brewers and the Milwaukee Bucks, both previously seen on WVTV. In the late 1980s, Arlington Broadcasting was sold and became known as HR Broadcasting (as in Hal Roach Studios, of Little Rascals/Our Gang fame). By the end of the 1980s, WCGV had pulled almost even with WVTV in the ratings. WCGV and Birmingham's WTTO were purchased by Abry Communications in 1990. The station continued with its general entertainment format, along with Fox programs. WCGV entered into a local marketing agreement with WVTV (then owned by Gaylord Broadcasting) in 1994. Although WCGV was the senior partner, the combined operation was based at WVTV's original studio facility near North 35th Street and Capitol Drive.

UPN affiliation
In early 1994, WITI was named as the market's new Fox affiliate as a result of a deal between the station's owner New World Communications and Fox as part of the network's decision to upgrade affiliates in certain markets after it acquired the broadcast rights to the National Football Conference of the NFL. For a short time between September and November 1994, the station carried Green Bay Packers games in the market through the network's NFC package as a lame-duck affiliate, though without any pre-game programming, the only break in network coverage by WITI of the team since the 1977 affiliation switch between WISN and WITI, which took place in the off-season.

WCGV lost the Fox affiliation and briefly became an independent station again on December 4, 1994. Despite the local press considering WCGV to be CBS's best option for a replacement affiliate, the station repeatedly refused the network's advances. Then acting general manager Alan Frank openly castigated the network for what he considered its poor negotiation tactics, such as attempting to buy the station despite Abry's clear disinterest and their willingness to settle for low-rated UHF stations in other markets. The station cited advertising concerns in the decision to refuse CBS; becoming an independent station would allow the network to sell more of its own commercials, as opposed to being forced to give up significant portions of ad time to the network. While industry observers believed that the station's ownership was simply holding out for a better deal, it steadfastly refused to affiliate. CBS ultimately affiliated with WDJT-TV.

Instead, it became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) on January 16, 1995, following a pattern in which many former Fox affiliates in markets where New World owned a station decided to join either UPN or fellow upstart network The WB if they did not join a Big Three network displaced due to the affiliation switches. Around this time, the station changed its branding to "UPN 24", with a generic logo consisting of the station's call letters and channel number beneath the primary color UPN "shapes" logo of that time. In 1995, Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired WCGV and the other properties owned by Abry's television station group. WVTV was purchased by Glencairn Ltd. (which was headed by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards). The Smith family, owners and founders of Sinclair owned 97% of Glencairn's stock, so Sinclair effectively owned both stations. Glencairn was involved in similar deals, owning eleven stations that were all operated by Sinclair under LMAs. This arrangement prompted Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH coalition to bring forward litigation, citing their concerns on racial issues in the face of one entity holding two broadcast licenses in a single market. The Federal Communications Commission eventually fined Sinclair $40,000 in 2001 for illegally controlling Glencairn. On January 5, 1998, WCGV/Sinclair decided to drop the UPN affiliation over ratings and monetary issues, as did several other Sinclair stations in other markets after the company signed a lucrative affiliation deal with The WB (which included WVTV; the station affiliated with The WB on May 19, 1997, prior to WCGV dropping UPN) to shift several stations from UPN. For eight months, the station reverted to being an independent station, though the only effect on the station's schedule was the replacement of UPN programming with syndicated film packages during prime time and Saturday afternoons, and paid programming in place of UPN Kids on Sunday mornings. A few local cable providers brought in the network's New York City area affiliate WWOR-TV to keep UPN programming available in the Milwaukee area, but for the most part the network was only seen on cable systems on the fringe of the market via WACY-TV in Appleton and WPWR-TV from Chicago; viewers could also choose to pull those stations over-the-air via antenna, along with the network's off-hours affiliation on WOOD-TV/WOTV across the lake in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Otherwise, most providers had dropped WWOR's "superstation" cable feed years before due to uninteresting programming replacing the main signal after SyndEx laws came into place, and the cable feed had been discontinued by satellite distribution rights holder Advance Entertainment Corporation a year earlier to increase distribution for Animal Planet.

However, WCGV did see a viewership decline without a network affiliation. It also received complaints from vocal Star Trek fans who had to pull in Voyager via over-the-air antenna from those out-of-market stations, switch to the Dish Network or PrimeStar satellite services for their "superstation" packages, or acquire the episodes through tape trading. Sinclair would eventually reverse its decision and come to terms with the network, resulting in WCGV rejoining UPN on August 4. On November 8 of that year, WCGV made up for the preemptions by airing an all-day Voyager marathon, showing the thirteen episodes making up the last half of season four that WCGV was not able to air during the second half of the 1997–98 season, with the permission of UPN and Paramount Television. WWOR was dropped from the few area cable systems it was on within days of the re-acquisition of WCGV's UPN affiliation.

Despite the reconciliation, the station continued to omit the mention of UPN from its own branding, and called itself "Channel 24" until the start of the 2001–2002 television season, when it brought back the "UPN 24" branding (one of only a small number of UPN stations to do so, as UPN branding was required by the network). WVTV became wholly owned by Sinclair in 2000, after the FCC overturned regulations that had prohibited television station duopolies.

WITI never held an interest in carrying any of Fox's children's programming after it joined that network due to existing local home showcase programming on Saturday mornings, and wanting to have traditional syndicated programming lead into its weekday local news programming; therefore, Fox Kids continued to air on WCGV for ten years after the affiliation switch (which included the station continuing to maintain a Fox 24 Kids Club through most of these years). However, as time went on, WCGV began to use its own logo bug to cover all Fox logos, and advertised the block sparingly at the behest of UPN (which had its own children's block airing on the station up until it was discontinued in 2003, including a period of time where both blocks were carried back-to-back on weekdays). The station declined to renew the children's block, later known as Fox Box and then 4Kids TV, after the fall of 2004, and subsequently 4Kids TV moved to independent WMLW-CA (channel 41), where it aired on Sunday mornings until it ended on December 28, 2008.

MyNetworkTV affiliation
On March 2, 2006, Sinclair announced that channel 24 would become the Milwaukee affiliate of MyNetworkTV, which was created by Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television in the wake of the January 24, 2006, announcement that UPN and The WB would cease operations in September 2006, and merge into one network, The CW. WCGV's WB-affiliated sister station WVTV was named as Milwaukee's CW affiliate two months later on May 2, 2006. This resulted in the Milwaukee duopoly becoming one of five MyNetworkTV/CW duopolies owned and/or controlled by Sinclair at the time (the other four are KVMY/KVCW in Las Vegas, WABM/WTTO in Birmingham, Alabama, WUXP/WNAB—itself part of a virtual triopoly with Fox affiliate WZTV—in Nashville, Tennessee, and WRDC/WLFL in Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina).

In the interim two weeks between the beginning of MyNetworkTV's and the end of UPN's existence in early to mid-September, WCGV continued to show select UPN programs on Sunday afternoons, airing Friday Night SmackDown, followed by Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris and All of Us from 12–5 p.m., all which were renewed by The CW and moved to channel 18. WCGV is one of the few stations in the country to have been affiliated with both News Corporation-owned networks, Fox and MyNetworkTV.

WCGV-TV carried the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway from NBC on August 19, 2017, for WTMJ, which was committed to a preseason Green Bay Packers football game.

July 2010 flooding incident and studio move
On July 22, 2010, the Milwaukee area experienced a major flash flooding event which caused major damage in several parts of Milwaukee County. The studios of WVTV/WCGV are located a half-mile south of Lincoln Creek and the building and technical equipment belonging to the stations suffered major damage, forcing channels 18 and 24 off the air for the majority of the time after 6 p.m. on July 22 until the early morning of July 24; the two stations, once they returned to the air, had their programming fed into their master control facilities via another unknown Sinclair master control. For both stations, this resulted in most of the station's paid programming and other timeslots where the Sinclair facility did not have an episode of a particular series within the schedule replaced with reruns of Coach and advertisements were replaced with direct response national advertising. Both stations eventually resumed local operations later during the week of July 25, but broadcast in 480i standard definition and did not display digital on-screen bugs at all due to damage to the station's high definition broadcasting equipment for most of the following month. HD programming was restored on August 20, 2010.

Because the flooding caused irreparable damage to the building, Sinclair immediately began a search for new facilities for WCGV and WVTV, which would allow locally produced and syndicated programs to be broadcast in high definition full-time without the complexities of rewiring an older and flood damaged studio and master control facility. On June 6, 2012, Sinclair received approval from the Milwaukee Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee to move to an existing building near the 41/145 Interchange on Milwaukee's northwest side on Calumet Road in the Park Place office park and install receiving satellite dishes, generators and a studio/transmitter link tower, with full Common Council approval coming a week later on June 12. The stations moved to the new building in December 2013, with the new master control coming online in the last week of the month.

From June 2012 until the end of December 2013, the engineering and master control of WVTV/WCGV transmitted 16:9 syndicated programming in full screen, but in standard definition as a stopgap solution until the move to the new studios. Upon the opening of the new master control, all syndicated programming available in the format now is aired in high definition.

Spectrum sale and unofficial channel share with WVTV
On April 13, 2017, the results of the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction were announced, with Sinclair successfully selling the UHF spectrum for WCGV for $84.3 million. At first, it was expected that WCGV's channels would be merged onto WVTV's spectrum in a formal channel-sharing agreement, by which Sinclair would continue to retain both licenses on one multiplex. However, at the time, Sinclair was attempting to acquire Tribune Media, owner of WITI. It would not have been able to hold three licenses, but surrendering the WCGV-TV license would have allowed Sinclair to purchase WITI without regulatory scrutiny.

Sinclair, Weigel Broadcasting, and Milwaukee PBS decided on a switch date of January 8 for their various local spectrum moves, and WCGV left the airwaves at 5 a.m. that morning. At that time, getTV was dropped from a subchannel of WVTV to make way for the addition of "My 24" (24.1) and Comet (24.2) as WVTV subchannels, and Grit (carried as WCGV's third subchannel) was discontinued. However, the station has retained the existing channel 24 numbering for the "My 24" and Comet subchannels while losing the WCGV call sign for WVTV-DT2. The transition to a subchannel was properly coordinated, and resulted in no major change to its carriage position or channel on the majority of the market's cable systems and streaming providers such as YouTube TV and Hulu's Live TV service, with only a few small systems consolidating the station onto a lower subchannel tier.

Ultimately, the merger with Tribune (and with it, Sinclair's acquisition of WITI) was called off due to a number of issues on August 8, 2018, leaving WVTV as Sinclair's only Milwaukee over-the-air asset. In another deal, Sinclair would acquire a majority stake in the Fox Sports Networks in the fall of 2019, and with it, Fox Sports Wisconsin (now Bally Sports Wisconsin).

Though the wind-down of WCGV did not allow the acquisition of WITI, the smooth transition of the station's main schedule to a WVTV subchannel resulted in Sinclair repeating the technique in a number of their markets to consolidate affiliations onto stations directly owned by Sinclair rather than its sidecar companies, especially with its Fox affiliates in major markets.

Programming
In 2014, the station began to air the national morning show The Daily Buzz on a two-hour delay from its national broadcast, which had previously been carried sporadically by WMLW-TV; notably until the show was sold off in 2013 by former owner and competing station group ACME Communications during its wind-down of operations, most Sinclair stations had never carried it. The sudden mid-April 2015 cancellation of The Daily Buzz forced channel 24 to quickly purchase barter lifestyle programming to fill the two hours vacated by the program.

The station had aired Milwaukee Bucks games, sharing rights with Fox Sports Wisconsin until the end of the 2006–07 season, when the team's games became cable-exclusive.

Channel 24 was the last true Milwaukee commercial station (religious station WVCY-TV, although technically a commercial licensee, does not solicit advertising) to sign off the air during the overnight hours, doing so for $4 1/2$ hours on early Monday mornings until March 10, 2008, when the station adopted a full 168-hour weekly schedule (although the early Monday morning schedule consists entirely of paid programming due to the lack of a Shepherd's Chapel program to air on Mondays); WVCY switched to a 24-hour programming schedule itself in January 2010.

Sports programming
In late August 2010, the station began to air a live high school football game telecast under the title Allstate Thursday Night Lights every Thursday evening as part of Sinclair's push for more local programming on its MyNetworkTV affiliates; these games are also traditionally aired as a radio "Game of the Week" over the web via WTMJ Radio's website, though both the WCGV and WTMJ broadcasts are not cross-promoted. The later broadcasts during the season were presented in the 480i widescreen format. For the 2011–12 season, the franchise was further extended to also cover Thursday night high school basketball games throughout the winter. In the fall of 2011, channel 24 also began to carry college basketball games distributed by Raycom Sports' ACC Network, which was the first program outside of network shows that the station has presented in high definition, and began to carry ACC football games the next season. In 2013, the station became the Milwaukee outlet for the Monday night show Locker Room, an unofficial Packers football analysis program produced by Green Bay's WFRV-TV. 2014 saw channel 24 become the Milwaukee outlet for Sinclair's internally run American Sports Network (now Stadium) package of college sports. Currently, Stadium has no host station in the market (though it is easily available through several streaming venues without cost), and channel 24 only carries the few Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball games which are cleared on Stadium as part of their broadcast agreement with the Horizon League, along with Saturday afternoon college football games beginning with the 2019 season after the move of all ACC rights to ESPN's ACC Network. In the summer of 2018 the station began to carry weekend home games for the Midwest League's Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Grand Chute–based Class A affiliate for the Brewers. The games are produced by sister station WLUK-TV in Green Bay and air on WCWF in that market. The fall of 2018 saw a further expansion of local sports coverage when the station began to carry weekend home games involving the American Hockey League's Milwaukee Admirals, the first time the team's games were broadcast on television (not counting Bradley Center-provided highlights to newscasts) since the early 90s.

Subchannels
As mentioned above, the station shares WVTV's bandwidth and is officially recognized as a WVTV subchannel (including within station identifications, where it simply identifies as "WVTV Milwaukee" like 18.1; if going by actual physical channel, channel 24's three channels are 27.4, 27.5 and 27.6), but retains its own multiplexed channel map as channel 24:

On March 23, 2006, Sinclair announced that it signed an affiliation deal with music video network The Tube to carry it on the digital subchannels of many of the group's stations. The channel launched on WCGV's 24.2 subchannel on June 15, 2006. On December 31, The Tube was dropped by WCGV due to new E/I regulations put into effect by the FCC and The Tube not immediately inserting E/I programming within its schedule, effectively putting the burden on local stations to carry such programs; the network ceased operations on October 1, 2007, due to several factors likely including the discontinuance of the Sinclair carriage deal. None of the market's cable television providers ever carried 24.2 during its affiliation with The Tube.

On June 28, 2007, Time Warner Cable began carrying WCGV's digital signal locally on digital channel 524 (which has since moved to channel 1024), along with WVTV on digital channel 518 (which has since moved to channel 1018), after Sinclair and Time Warner came to a compensation agreement for the stations. Charter Communications, the market's other major cable provider, came to a compensation agreement in April 2007, but the HD signal was not added until June 9, 2009, when the HD signal began to air over digital channel 614 on Charter's southeastern Wisconsin systems.

In August 2010, Sinclair signed a groupwide affiliation deal with The Country Network (which rebranded as ZUUS Country in July 2013), a digital subchannel network featuring country music videos, to the 28 of the company's stations. WCGV relaunched its 24.2 subchannel as an affiliate of The Country Network on October 26, 2010 (the subchannel's E/I programming is handled at the network level). Charter Communications began carrying the subchannel on digital cable channel 964 on February 9, 2011 (currently 188), with Time Warner Cable following suit on September 27, 2011, placing it on digital channel 988. ZUUS's programming was replaced by that of the new Sinclair/MGM joint venture network Comet on October 31, 2015. The Country Network eventually was re-established after a split with ZUUS and returned to Milwaukee via a subchannel of WTSJ-LP (channel 38) in late 2016.

On January 1, 2015, WCGV launched Grit on their third subchannel, which was added to Charter systems on channel 178 on March 10, 2015. It was discontinued on January 8, 2018, upon the channel sharing with WVTV taking effect; WTMJ-TV took it for their fourth subchannel nearly immediately as described above.

Analog-to-digital conversion as WCGV-TV
On February 2, 2009, Sinclair told cable and satellite television providers via e-mail that regardless of the exact mandatory switchover date to digital-only broadcasting for full-power stations (which Congress rescheduled for June 12 days later), the station would shut down its analog signal on the original transition date of February 17. WCGV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 24, on that date. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 25, using virtual channel 24.

As part of the SAFER Act, WCGV kept its analog signal on the air until March 4 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.

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List of assets owned by Sony

This is a list of assets owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.

Electronics

 * Sony Corporation
 * Sony Global Manufacturing & Operations Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group

 * Sony Semiconductor Solutions
 * Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing
 * Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (joint venture with TSMC and Denso)
 * Sony Semiconductor Israel (formerly Altair Semiconductor)
 * Sony Depthsensing Solutions (formerly SoftKinetic)
 * Sony Advanced Visual Sensing

Sony Interactive Entertainment / PlayStation

 * Audeze
 * Audiokinetic
 * Bungie
 * Evolution Championship Series (joint venture with Endeavor)
 * Gaikai
 * iSize
 * PlayStation Productions
 * PlayStation Studios
 * Bluepoint Games
 * Creative Arts
 * Visual Arts
 * Music
 * Sound
 * Creative
 * Firesprite
 * Fabrik Games
 * Firewalk Studios
 * Guerrilla Games
 * Haven Studios
 * Housemarque
 * Insomniac Games
 * Insomniac North Carolina
 * Media Molecule
 * Naughty Dog
 * ICE Team
 * Neon Koi
 * Nixxes Software
 * Polyphony Digital
 * Bend Studio
 * Team Asobi
 * Malaysia Studio
 * San Diego Studio
 * San Mateo Studio
 * Santa Monica Studio
 * Sucker Punch Productions
 * Valkyrie Entertainment
 * XDev
 * PlayStation Mobile
 * PlayStation Publishing
 * Repeat.gg
 * SN Systems

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

 * Sony Pictures Studios
 * Sony Pictures Studios Post Production Facilities
 * Worldwide Product Fulfillment
 * Madison Gate Records
 * Sony Pictures Consumer Products
 * Pixomondo
 * Sony Pictures Experiences
 * Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
 * Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Inc.
 * AK Holdings
 * Animax Broadcast Japan Inc. (joint venture with Bandai Namco, Toei Animation, TMS Entertainment and Nihon Ad Systems)
 * Kids Station
 * Mystery Channel
 * Madhouse (5%)
 * Toei Animation (1.86%)
 * Sony Pictures Europe
 * Sony Pictures Interactive
 * Sony Pictures Digital
 * Sony Pictures Digital Productions Inc.
 * Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group
 * Columbia Pictures
 * Ghost Corps
 * Sony Pictures Animation
 * 3000 Pictures
 * Screen Gems
 * Sony Pictures Classics
 * Sony Pictures Releasing
 * Sony Pictures Releasing International
 * Sony Pictures Releasing de México
 * Sony Pictures Imageworks
 * Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 * Sony Pictures Kids Zone
 * Kartoon Studios (7%)
 * Genius Brands Music
 * Kartoon Channel
 * Baby Genius
 * Stan Lee Universe
 * A Squared Entertainment LLC
 * Stan Lee Comics LLC (60%)
 * Wow Unlimited Media
 * Mainframe Studios
 * Frederator Networks
 * Frederator Studios
 * Frederator Films
 * Channel Frederator Network
 * StashRiot
 * Cartoon Hangover
 * Frederator Flux
 * The Leaderboard Network
 * Cinematica
 * MicDrop
 * Atomo Network (Joint venture with Ánima)
 * Frederator Books
 * Thirty Labs
 * Ezrin Hirsh Entertainment (EHE)
 * Big Picture Productions
 * Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (joint venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
 * Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group
 * Destination Films
 * Stage 6 Films
 * Affirm Films
 * Affirm Television
 * Great American Pure Flix streaming (joint venture with Great American Media)
 * TriStar Pictures
 * TriStar Productions
 * Crunchyroll, LLC (joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex)
 * Crunchyroll streaming
 * Crunchyroll UK and Ireland
 * Crunchyroll Store Australia
 * Crunchyroll EMEA
 * Crunchyroll SAS
 * Crunchyroll SA
 * Crunchyroll GmbH
 * Crunchyroll Games
 * Crunchyroll Store
 * Crunchyroll Channel (FAST channel; joint venture with Sony Pictures Television Networks' Game Show Network, LLC)
 * Sony Pictures Television
 * CPT Holdings, Inc.
 * Sony Pictures Television Studios
 * TriStar Television
 * 2waytraffic
 * 2waytraffic Mobile
 * 2waytraffic International
 * Bad Wolf
 * Blueprint Television (joint venture with Blueprint Pictures)
 * Califon Productions, Inc.
 * Culver Entertainment
 * Eleventh Hour Films
 * Eleven
 * Embassy Row
 * Fable Pictures
 * Floresta
 * Huaso
 * Human Media
 * Jeopardy Productions, Inc.
 * Lean-M
 * Left Bank Pictures
 * Palladium Fiction
 * Curio Pictures
 * Satisfy (joint venture with Satisfaction Group; 20%)
 * Sony Pictures Television Kids
 * Stellify Media
 * Stolen Picture
 * Teleset
 * Teleset Mexico
 * Toro Media
 * The Whisper Group
 * Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction
 * 19 Entertainment
 * B17 Entertainment
 * House of NonFiction
 * Maxine
 * The Intellectual Property Corporation
 * Sharp Entertainment
 * Trilogy Films
 * This Machine Filmworks
 * UNConventional Entertainment
 * Sony Pictures Television Networks
 * Game Show Network, LLC
 * Game Show Network (Cable channel)
 * Game Show Central (FAST channel)
 * Crunchyroll Channel (FAST channel; joint venture with Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan-owned Aniplex's Crunchyroll, LLC)
 * CPE US Networks
 * Get (Digital multicast network)
 * Sony Movie Channel (Cable channel)
 * Sony Cine (Spanish-language cable channel)
 * International
 * Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited
 * Sony Entertainment Television
 * Sony Ten
 * Sony Max
 * Sony Max 2
 * Sony SAB
 * SonyLIV streaming
 * Sony Six
 * Sony Aath
 * Sony BBC Earth (joint venture with BBC Studios)
 * Sony YAY!
 * Sony Pix
 * Sony Wah
 * Sony Pal
 * Sony Marathi
 * Studio NEXT
 * Sony Pictures Networks Productions
 * AXN
 * AXN Black
 * AXN Movies
 * AXN Mystery
 * AXN Now
 * AXN Spin
 * AXN White
 * Sony AXN
 * Lifetime Latin America (joint venture with A+E Networks Latin America, distributed by Ole Distribution)
 * Sony Channel

Sony Music Group

 * Sony Music Publishing
 * Bleeding Fingers Music
 * Challenge Records
 * EMI Music Publishing
 * EMI Production Music
 * Extreme Music
 * Hickory Records
 * KPM Music
 * Remote Control Productions
 * APM Music (joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group)
 * Sonoton
 * Bruton Music
 * Cezame Music
 * Hard and Kosinus
 * Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
 * Columbia Records
 * Startime International
 * Epic Records
 * Arista Records
 * Bad Boy Records
 * Freebandz
 * Ariola
 * Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
 * So So Def Recordings
 * Volcano Entertainment
 * Kemosabe Records
 * Legacy Recordings
 * The Orchard
 * Blind Pig Records
 * Frenchkiss Records
 * RED Music
 * Shrapnel Records
 * RCA Records
 * RCA Inspiration
 * Fo Yo Soul
 * GospoCentric Records
 * B'Rite Music
 * Quiet Water Entertainment
 * Verity Records
 * Ultra Records
 * Sony Masterworks
 * Masterworks Broadway
 * Milan Records
 * Okeh Records
 * Portrait Records
 * Sony Classical Records
 * Sony Music Australia
 * Sony Music Brazil
 * Amigo Records
 * Phonomotor Records
 * Som Livre
 * Sony Music Canada
 * Ratas Music Group
 * Sony Music China
 * Sony Music France
 * Sony Music Entertainment Hong Kong
 * Sony Music Entertainment Poland
 * Sony Music India
 * Sony Music Indonesia
 * Sony Music Latin
 * Sony Music Mexico
 * Sony Music Nashville
 * Arista Nashville
 * Columbia Nashville
 * RCA Records Nashville
 * Provident Entertainment
 * Essential Records
 * Flicker Records
 * Provident Films
 * Reunion Records
 * Beach Street Records
 * Sony Music Philippines
 * Sony Music Taiwan
 * Sony Music Thailand
 * Bakery Music
 * Sony BEC-TERO Music
 * Sony Music UK
 * Black Butter Records (49%)
 * Columbia Records UK
 * Dream Life Records
 * Insanity Records (joint venture with Insanity Group)
 * Magic Star
 * Ministry of Sound
 * Music For Nations
 * RCA Label Group UK
 * Relentless Records
 * Since '93
 * Sony Commercial Group
 * Sony Music Legacy - UK
 * Sony Music Nashville UK
 * Global Podcast Division
 * Neon Hum Media

Sony Music Entertainment Japan

 * Aniplex
 * A-1 Pictures Inc.
 * Aniplex of America Inc.
 * Aniplex (Shanghai) Ltd. (51%)
 * Boundary Inc.
 * CloverWorks Inc.
 * Crunchyroll, LLC (shared ownership with Sony Pictures)
 * Crunchyroll streaming
 * Crunchyroll UK and Ireland
 * Crunchyroll Store Australia
 * Crunchyroll EMEA
 * Crunchyroll SAS
 * Crunchyroll SA
 * Crunchyroll GmbH
 * Crunchyroll Games
 * Crunchyroll Store
 * Crunchyroll Channel (FAST streaming channel; joint venture with Sony Pictures Television Networks' Game Show Network, LLC)
 * Peppermint Anime GmbH (joint venture with Peppermint GmbH)
 * Quatro A Inc.
 * Rialto Entertainment Inc.
 * Myriagon Studio
 * Lasengle
 * Ariola Japan
 * Epic Records Japan
 * Kioon Music
 * Fitz Beat
 * Haunted Records
 * Ki/oon Records2
 * NeOSITE
 * Siren Song
 * Trefort
 * M-On Entertainment, Inc.
 * Music On! TV
 * mora
 * Peanuts Worldwide (39%; with WildBrain (41%) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates (20%))
 * Sacra Music
 * Sony Creative Products Inc.
 * Sony DADC Japan Inc.
 * Sony Music Artists Inc.
 * Sony Music Communications Inc.
 * Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc.
 * Sony Music Labels Inc.
 * Sony Music Marketing Inc.
 * Sony Music Associated Records
 * Sony Music Publishing
 * Sony Music Records
 * gr8! Records
 * Mastersix Foundation
 * N46Div
 * Niagara Records
 * VVV Records
 * Unties
 * ForwardWorks
 * Jisedai Inc.
 * MusicRay'n Inc.
 * room NB Inc.
 * Zepp Hall Network Inc. (51%)

Sony Financial Group

 * Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Assurance Inc.
 * Sony Bank Inc.
 * Sony Lifecare Inc.
 * Sony Financial Ventures Inc.

Sony Honda Mobility

 * Afeela (50%)

Foundations and schools

 * Sony Foundation for Education
 * Sony Music Foundation
 * Sony USA Foundation Inc.
 * Sony Foundation Australia Trustee Ltd.
 * Sony of Canada Science Scholarship Foundation Inc.
 * Sony Europe Foundation
 * Shohoku College

Japan

 * Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
 * Sony Music Labels Inc.
 * Sony Music Marketing Inc.
 * Sony Music Communications Inc.
 * Sony Music Artists Inc.
 * Sony Creative Products Inc.
 * Sony DADC Japan Inc.
 * Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
 * AK Holdings Corporation
 * Animax Broadcast Japan Inc.
 * Kids Station Inc.
 * AXN Japan Inc.
 * Mystery Channel, Inc.
 * Sony Energy Devices Corporation
 * Sony Network Communications Inc.
 * Sony Biz Networks Corporation
 * SMN Corporation (formerly So-net Media Networks Co., Ltd.) (58.7%)
 * MotionPortrait, Inc.
 * Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
 * Sony PCL Inc.
 * Sony Marketing Inc.
 * Sony Global Solutions Inc.
 * Sony Global Education, Inc.
 * P5, Inc.
 * FeliCa Networks, Inc. (51%; joint venture with NTT Docomo and JR East)
 * AII Inc. (60.9%)
 * Frontage Inc. (60%)
 * SRE Holdings (formerly Sony Real Estate Corporation) (36.9%)
 * Aerosense Inc. (joint venture with ZMP Inc. and Sumitomo Corporation)
 * M3, Inc. (34%)
 * Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. (51%; joint venture with Olympus)
 * Sony Enterprise Co., Ltd.
 * Ginza Sony Park
 * Sony People Solutions Inc.
 * Sony Honda Mobility (50%; joint venture with Honda)

Canada

 * Sony Canada

United States

 * Sony Corporation of America
 * Sony Entertainment Inc.
 * Sony Music Group
 * Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
 * Sony Creative Software
 * Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation
 * Sony Magnetic Products Inc. of America
 * Sony Latin America

Latin America

 * Sony Argentina S.A.
 * Sony Comércio e Indústria Ltda. (Brazil)
 * Sony Componentes Ltda. (Brazil)
 * Sony da Amazônia Ltda. (Brazil)
 * Sony Chile Ltda. (Chile)
 * Sony de México S.A. de C.V.
 * Sony de Mexicali, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
 * Sony Nuevo Laredo, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
 * Sony de Tijuana Oeste, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
 * Sony Corporation of Panama, S. A.
 * Sony Puerto Rico, Inc.
 * Sony Pictures Home Entertainment de México S.A. de C.V.

Europe

 * Sony Austria GmbH.
 * Sony DACD Austria A.G.
 * Sony DADC Europe Limited
 * Sony DADC, OOO (Borovsk, Russia)
 * Sony Service Centre (Europe) N.V. (Brussels, Belgium)
 * Sony Overseas S.A. (Switzerland)
 * Sony Czech, spol. s.r.o.
 * Sony Berlin G.m.b.H. (Germany)
 * Sony Deutschland G.m.b.H. (Köln, Germany)
 * Sony Europe GmbH (Germany)
 * Sony Nordic A/S (Denmark)
 * Sony España S.A. (Spain)
 * Sony France S.A.
 * Sony United Kingdom Ltd.
 * Sony Global Treasury Service Plc (UK)
 * Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited (UK)
 * Sony Hungaria Kft. (Hungary)
 * Sony Italia S.p.A. (Italy)
 * Sony Benelux B.V. (Netherlands)
 * Sony Europa B.V. (Netherlands)
 * Sony Logistics Europe B.V. (Netherlands)
 * Sony Poland Sp.z.o.o. (Poland)
 * Sony Portugal Ltda. (Portugal)
 * Sony Slovakia s r. o. (Slovakia)
 * Sony Eurasia Pazarlama A.S. (Turkey)

China

 * Sony (China) Ltd.
 * Beijing Suohong Electronics Co., Ltd.
 * Shanghai Suoguang Visual Products Co., Ltd.
 * Shanghai Suoguang Electronics Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Electronics (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Ltd.
 * Sony International (Hong Kong) Ltd.

South Korea

 * Sony Electronics of Korea Corporation
 * Sony Korea Corporation

India

 * Sony India Private Limited
 * Sony India Software Services Pvt. Ltd
 * Culver Max Entertainment

Southeast Asia and Oceania

 * PT Sony Indonesia
 * Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia
 * Sony Electronics (Malaysia) SDN. BHD.
 * Sony Music Entertainment Malaysia
 * Sony Technology (Malaysia) SDN. BHD.
 * Sony Philippines, Inc.
 * Sony Music Entertainment Philippines
 * Sony Electronics (Singapore) Pte. LTD.
 * Sony Magnetic Products (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Mobile Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Device Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Siam Industries Co., Ltd.
 * Sony Australia Limited
 * Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Pty. Ltd
 * Sony New Zealand Ltd.
 * Sony Vietnam Ltd.

Middle East

 * Sony Middle East and Africa FZE (UAE)

Japan

 * Kadokawa Corporation (1.93%)
 * From Software (14.09%)
 * MBS Media Holdings, Inc. (4.44%)
 * VAIO Corporation (5%)
 * Tamron (14.8%)

United States

 * Devolver Digital (5%)
 * Epic Games (4.9%)
 * Mangamo
 * Discord
 * AccelByte

Mainland China

 * Bilibili, Inc. (4.98%)

Europe

 * Spotify Technology S.A. (2.35%)
 * Raspberry Pi

Sold or spun off

 * Avex Group
 * Chart Show TV - Sold to TRACE Group (currently Trace Hits)
 * Chart Show Hits - Sold to TRACE Group (itself closed on 1 June 2020)
 * Crackle - Sold to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
 * FEARnet HD (jointly owned by Comcast and Lionsgate) - Sold to Comcast and folded into Syfy and Chiller
 * Film1 - closed, then relaunched by SPI International in 2019
 * Gracenote - Sold to Tribune Media (later sold to Nielsen)
 * Loews Cineplex Entertainment - Sold to Onex Corporation in 2002; Theatres now owned by Cineplex Entertainment in Canada and AMC Theatres in the United States
 * Movielink (jointly owned by Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Bros.) - Sold to Blockbuster LLC
 * The Orchard Film Group - divested and renamed 1091 Media
 * Sony Chemicals Corporation - Sold off and became Dexerials.
 * Sony Online Entertainment - Sold to Columbus Nova and became Daybreak Game Company
 * Sony Pictures Television's Southeast Asian channels - Sold to KC Global Media
 * Animax
 * AXN
 * Gem
 * One
 * Sony Pictures Television's UK channels - Sold to Narrative Capital
 * Sony Channel - became Great! TV
 * Sony Movies - became Great! Movies
 * Sony Movies Action - became Great! Movies Action
 * Sony Movies Classic - became Great! Movies Classic
 * Pop
 * Pop Max
 * Tiny Pop
 * Viasat 3 - Sold to ANT1 Group
 * Viasat 6 - Sold to ANT1 Group
 * Sunbow Entertainment - Sold to TV-Loonland AG in November 2000.
 * Starz TV - Sold to TRACE Group (itself closed on 1 June 2020)
 * The Vault - Sold to TRACE Group (currently Trace Vault)
 * Syco Entertainment (excl. Syco Music) - Stake held by Sony sold back to Simon Cowell

Defunct
Electronics

All of these companies below were merged into Sony Electronics Corporation in April 2021, with the surviving entity changed its name to Sony Corporation.
 * Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.
 * Sony Home Entertainment & Sound Products Inc.
 * Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Marketing Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, merged the following company in April 2021. Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
 * Sony Business Solutions Corporation
 * Sony LSI Design Inc. - Merged into Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation in April 2022.

Sony Interactive Entertainment
 * 989 Studios
 * Bigbig Studios
 * Contrail
 * Evolution Studios
 * Guerrilla Cambridge
 * Incognito Entertainment
 * Japan Studio
 * Team Ico
 * Project Siren
 * London Studio
 * Manchester Studio
 * Pixelopus
 * Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool
 * Sony Imagesoft
 * Team Soho
 * Zipper Interactive

Sony Pictures Entertainment
 * Hooq
 * 3D NetCo LLC (3net, jointly owned with Discovery Communications and IMAX)
 * Animax Europe
 * Animax Germany
 * Crunchyroll Manga
 * Crunchyroll Studios
 * Anime Digital Network
 * Anime on Demand
 * Kazé
 * AnimeLab
 * Right Stuf - Folded into Crunchyroll Store in 2023
 * Nozomi Entertainment - Folded into Crunchyroll, LLC in 2023
 * 5 Points Pictures
 * Critical Mass Video
 * Lucky Penny Entertainment
 * Wakanim
 * Ellation - Folded into Crunchyroll LLC
 * VRV - Folded into Crunchyroll in 2023
 * Funimation streaming - Folded into Crunchyroll in 2024
 * Funimation Channel - Rebranded as Toku in 2015
 * Funimation Films
 * Bliss
 * Bolder Media
 * CSC Media Group - Folded into Sony Pictures Television in 2019
 * Electric Ray
 * First Independent Films
 * Flava*
 * Gemstone Studios - Folded into Sony Pictures Television's drama department
 * Movies4Men 2
 * Pop Girl
 * Scarlet Media - Closed down after Simon Andrae went to FOX
 * Scuzz
 * Silver River Productions
 * Sony Channel Southeast Asia
 * Sony Crime Channel
 * Sony Le Plex HD
 * Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group
 * Sony Pictures Mobile
 * Sony Rox HD
 * True Crime
 * True Drama
 * True Movies 2
 * TV1 General Entertainment Partnership (jointly owned by SPT, CBS Studios International and NBCUniversal)
 * TV1
 * SF
 * Victory Television - Shut down after Victoria Ashbourne stepped down
 * Sony Pictures Networks India
 * AXN
 * Sony Le Plex
 * Sony ROX
 * Sony Mix
 * Sony ESPN

Sony Music

 * 550 Music
 * Abril Music - bought from Editora Abril in 2003 by BMG and absorbed by Ariola Records
 * Battery Records (hip hop)
 * Bertelsmann Music Group
 * Beyond Records
 * Bluebird Records
 * BMG Heritage Records
 * Buddah Records
 * BMG Kidz
 * BNA Records
 * Burgundy Records
 * Chaos Recordings
 * C2 Records
 * Colpix Records/Colgems Records
 * Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd.
 * Frenchkiss Label Group
 * Indolent Records
 * J Records
 * GUN Records
 * Kinetic Records
 * LaFace Records
 * Logic Records
 * MTM Music Group
 * MTM Records
 * BriarPatch Music
 * CottonPatch Music
 * DebDave Music, Inc.
 * Mallven Music
 * Multitone Records
 * Novus Records
 * Odd Future Records
 * Ode Records
 * Odyssey Records
 * Philles Records
 * Playbill Records
 * Private Music
 * Profile Records
 * RCA Camden
 * RCA Gold Seal
 * RCA Italiana
 * RCA Victrola
 * Ruthless Records
 * S2 Records
 * Windham Hill Records
 * Living Music
 * Vinyl Solution
 * Windswept Pacific Music - catalog acquired by EMI Music Publishing
 * Work Group
 * Zomba Group of Companies
 * Benson Records
 * Capricorn Records
 * Internal Affairs
 * Jive Records
 * Battery Records (dance)
 * Jive Electro
 * Mojo Records
 * Scotti Brothers Records
 * Silvertone Records
 * Sub•Lime Records
 * Zoo Entertainment

title: List of assets owned by Sony