In These Times/Bernie Sanders: How Corporate Media Threatens Our Democracy. January 26, 2017 by Garret Vreeland in News Who owns the media? In 1983, the largest 50 corporations controlled 90 percent of the media. Today, as a result of massive mergers and takeovers, six corporations control 90 percent of what we see, hear, and read. Those six corporations are Comcast, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS. In 2010, the total revenue of these six corporations was $275 billion. Like being fed by machine.