Move over Murdochs, the Ellisons are the new family dynasty shaking up US media

Natalie ShermanWorker correspondent
Getty ImagesTechnology billionaire Larry Ellison and his son Hollywood producer David have long walked in the halls of the elite of the world.
However, this year, their powers have gained a new dimension, because Tiktok follows opportunities that contain names from CNN, which will provide control over the largest media companies on the planet.
If the name Murdoch is already known in the world, it may not take too long for Ellison to join them.
By opening the path of the rise of the family, Larry Ellison’s relationship with US President Donald Trump, who blessed relationships, praises the Great Ellison as an “amazing man and a magnificent businessman”.
“Far beyond technology,” he said, “CEO of everything”.
In some angles, an unexpected way for Ellison.
In 1977, 81 -year -old Larry Ellison founded the software and database company Oracle and mastered the hidden field of databases and cloud computing.
The giant of the world of technology has doubled in the last 12 months, as the wealth, which is partially based on approximately 40% stake in Oracle, has played a key role for artificial intelligence for artificial intelligence.
For a moment this month, it was even listed as the richest person in the world, which ranked at the top of Elon Musk.
Ellison’s out -of -class activity has been tending to buy an island in Hawaii and Hawaii.
However, the relationship with the president, which has attracted the most attention lately, has recently.
In 2020, known as a Republican Megadonor, he organized a donation collection for Trump, but it was reported that he did not participate in the event and the federal records did not contribute to the president.
Oracle joined Tiktok In the first period of Trump, he served as a host for the application of the US user data in the United States.
Under an agreement that it mediates by the White House, he is preparing to become an investor who has an even greater role in responsible for re -training the algorithm that serves what we see. (Trump said that Murdochs, a long time -built media dynasty, could also participate in the agreement.
He proved that these ties with the administration were useful because he was acting to be a major media player for his 42 -year -old son David.
The first edition of Hollywood, the 2006 film about World War I, financed and starred, was a flop.
Wireimage via GettyHowever, since he founded his own studio in 2010, he has gained a name beyond his father’s billion, and produced films such as True Grit, Mission Impossible and World War Z. In 2011, he founded his sister Megan Ellison, American Hustle and Zero Dark Thirty, Annapurna Pictures, who continued to produce films.
Meanwhile, David Ellison pushed Skydans to television, games and sports.
However, Paramount, supported by his father last month, made an important leap to the new region. Now is the boss of an operation that expands with more than 18,000 employees, including supervising the CBS, one of the biggest news organizations in America.
The acquisition required a blessing from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which regulates broadcasting in the US and ruled by Trump Sadık Brendan Carr.
The Ellison is also said to have also prepared an offer for Warner Brothers Discovery, which hosts Looney Tunes, Harry Potter and Superman, and HBO and CNN, a combination that will create one of the largest media giants in the USA.
This agreement will require the government to sign up in the form of openness from competition regulators.
Larry Ellison and David Ellison did not respond to their requests for comments through their companies.
‘Dangerous for democracy’
Bloomberg via GettyHowever, against the floor of the wider White House pressure In the media, the growing power of the Ellison and Trump gave ties on the left. The place where critics are afraid of the ability of the president to influence the scope of the news.
The Media Monitoring Group Fair has recently seems to be a matter, as well as controlling a large social media network like Tiktok, as well as seizing both the CBS and CNN, as well as its proximity to the Trump regime. ”
Senator Elizabeth Warren called for any Paramount-Warner sister connection to prevent it as a “dangerous power concentration”. Other groups criticized the Tiktok agreement as a gift to the President of the President.
The Democrats of the Assembly said last month that Paramount-Skydans had launched an investigation to see that there was no commitment to the approval of a potential violation of bribery laws.
Only weeks before the approval of the agreement, the Paramount agreed to pay $ 16 million to file a lawsuit with Trump, who accused CBS of decepting a deceptive interview to help the democrats.
Trump also has in question “New owners” promised him billions of free advertising or programming.
David Ellison said that Skydence was not included in the Paramount settlement and that his company was in accordance with the laws of fighting bribery. But last month, he gave questions about a side agreement: “Today we will not politicize anything.”
In addition, CBS made some changes, some of them are the conditions described by the FCC when they sign the agreement.
They involved a conservative guard to review prejudice complaints. The company will also take a break with CBS’s political show, ‘Face the National, only with its long -standing journalism applications.
“These actions are compatible with what the White House explains what the White House explains, so I think it is really interested,” Rodney Benson said, a media professor at the University of New York and the chief author of the book. He said.
David Ellison, who spoke to journalists after merger, Political giving registry contributed to the democrats last year, He said he wanted to avoid being left or left.
According to La Times, he said, “We are an entertainment company first and I really believe if you’re breathing.” “We want to be in the business with everyone.”
Other executives, one of the partners of Skydence Gerry Cardinale and Paramount, the other major investor Gerry Cardinale and the owners of the company will try to enter the news of the idea that the owners of the news back.
“The core of the entire investment thesis is independence and objectivity. If you can’t keep your head around it, buying it,” he said.
“There is no way to try to impress it.”
In Wall Street, Paramount’s potential connection with Warner Brothers Discovery, investors have the opportunity to create a studio with the distribution power and library to compete to Disney and Netflix.
Analysts said David Ellison’s past technology, such as Jeff Bezos, who bought media broadcasts as a kind of hobby, as a kind of hobby of filmmaking and general manager.
But while expressing love for Ellison movies – He said very little about the news industry by holding his mother’s VHS cassette collection until 2022.
Analysts said they would be surprised if there was a priority, given the relatively small financial contribution to the general business. Ellison also said he wanted to make $ 2 billion deductions in Paramount.
Raymond James General Manager Ric Prentiss, “I do not see this as ‘I want to grow to the news’ I do not see something,” he said. “I think this ‘I want to create content’ is something … I do not think it is a strong part of the news.”
Paul Hardart, Director of Entertainment, Media and Technology Program at the University of New York University Stern, said that the growth pressure proposes to seize the moment of Elison.
“Who can know how long they will take to the management’s ear?” he said.
As a result, when Elon Musk, another mega billionaire and media mogulu, connected him to the Trump administration, this relationship rose in flames.





