Exploring Media Ownership

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Some parent companies who own most of the media in Canada are Rogers Media, Rogers Television, Quebecor Media, SRC, RNC, CBS, Radio Canada, Corus Entertainment, NHL Network Canada, Torstar and A Stations. These parent companies are all connected through the map through smaller corporations associated with them.

Main Theme in Sound City

           Due to improved technology, improved knowledge, and improved experience and training, I believe that music has gotten better over the years in many ways. However, this does not apply to all genre's of music. With improved technology, comes artists who "overuse" what they have access too. Hip hop is a prime example of a genre of which has done so.  Updated technology has allowed us artists to hire a producer, who spends nearly every waking moment in the studio laying down tracks, beats and remixes to make songs more appealing to their listener. With the use of auto tune, it is nearly possible to make anyone's voice sound appealing to the listener. This is a downfall in the music industry because now the industry not only consists of artists with talent, but rather  of artists with either pure talent or with enough money to hire a producer to make their song sound good.

The Source

          Generally, I get my information about the world from Google. This source is appealing to me because of it's wide range of information. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages. On average, Google makes over $100 million dollars per day. The amount of money Google makes in a day is staggering, but these figures are just gross sales and or gross income. The question and probably the most difficult formula to figure out is true profits. With ten’s of thousands of employees, huge data centers with lots of servers storing terabytes upon terabytes of data doesn’t come cheap. Google makes the vast majority of their income through advertising.