List of assets owned by SONY - Definition

This list of Sony holdings is indicative only.

Electronics and Communications

Products include:

• CD and DVD players
• MiniDisc players
• Walkman
• WebTV devices
• audio and video tapes
• digital video discs
• camcorders and digital imaging products
• televisions
• radios
• video cassette recorders
• business and consumer communication systems
• digital satellite systems
• digital radio and microwave telecommunication systems
• computers
• batteries

Film production & distribution

• Columbia TriStar
• Columbia Pictures
• Screen Gems
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (SONY 80%,Comcast 20%)
• United Artist Films/Pictures (SONY 80%,Comcast 20%)
• Phoenix Pictures (partial interest)
• Sony Pictures Classics
• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Columbia-Tri Star Home Video

Cinemas

• Metreon

Sony's stake in the Sony/Loews Theaters group ( around 2,960 screens in North America, inc Magic Johnson Theaters and Loews-Star Theaters) was a victim of the Loews Cineplex crisis of 2001.

Merchandise

• Sony Signatures - (entertainment related clothes and merchandise)
• Insurance and Financing
• Sony Life Insurance Company
• Sony Finance International

Games & Interactive

• Sony PlayStation - machine and software
• Psygnosis Limited - video game developer
• Sony Online
  • TheStation@sony.com - online entertainment network
  • Jeopardy Online, Wheel of Fortune Online
• Columbia Tri-Star Interactive

Music

• Sony Music
  • Sony Music Nashville
  • Sony Wonder (children's music)
  • Sony Music Products (promotional music for business)
  • Sony Music Soundtrak
  • Sony Music International
  • Sony Music Publishing (copyright owners, joint venture with Michael Jackson)
• Legacy
• Tri-Star Music
• WORK
• Crave
• 57 Records
• 550 Music
• Columbia Records
• Epic Records
• Epic Soundtrak
• Shotput Records
• Relatively Entertainment
• RED Distribution
• Relatively Records
• Harmony Records
• Soho Square
• Dance Pool
• Mambo
• Rubenstein
• Squatt
• Sony Classical
• Arc of Light
• Masterworks
• Sony Broadway
• SEON
• Vivarte
• Columbia House (minor stake in venture with AOL Time Warner and Blackstone Capital Partners)
• Music Choice (with AOL Time Warner, EMI and General Instrument - digital stereo for cable TV)
• Music Choice Europe

Television Production & Distribution

• Columbia-TriStar Television (programming)
• Columbia-TriStar Television Distribution
• Columbia-TriStar Television International Television
• The Game Show Network

International Television Ventures

• Cinemax Latin America

Interests in:

• HBO Latin America
• HBO Brasil
• HBO Asia
• HBO Poland
• Warner Channel - Latin America
• Showtime - Australia
• Encore - Australia
• TVI - Australia
• Channel V - Asia
• Cinemax Asia
• Beijing Television Arts Center
• Viva 1 - Germany
• Viva 2 - Germany
• Frensch Productions - Germany
• Carlton Productions United Kingdom - controlled by Carlton Communications
• Golden Square Productions (United Kingdom)

Sony has licensing arrangements and interest in:

• Kirch Group (German television/film production and broadcasting)
• FORTA (Spain)
• BSkyB (satellite broadcaster in which News Corporation has dominant share)
• JSkyB (Japan)
• Telemundo (Sony is managing partner of venture with Apollo Management, Bastion Capital Fund and Liberty Media and will oversee programming and marketing.)

Chemicals

• Sony Chemicals (Sony really produces glue!)

See also

• Lists of corporate assets