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| logo                = [[File:Kalian Media Group.png|250px|Kalian Media Group logo]]
| logo                = [[File:Kalian Media Group.png|250px|Kalian Media Group logo]]
| type                = {{wp|Publicly-traded company|Public}}
| type                = {{wp|Publicly-traded company|Public}}
| traded_as            = [[Provisa Stock Exchange|PSE]]: '''KMG'''
| traded_as            = [[Dervaylik Stock & Bond Exchange|DSBE]]: '''KMG'''
| motto                = ''Communicating the Future''
| motto                = ''Communicating the Future''
| foundation          = {{Start date and years ago|1954|04|27}} (as ''Kalian Radio Holding Company'')
| foundation          = {{Start date and years ago|1953|04|27}} (as ''Kalian Radio Holding Company'')
| image                =  
| image                =  
| image_caption        =  
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| founder              = [[Kalian family|Allan Kalian]]
| founder              = [[Kalian family|Allan Kalian]]
| location            = [[Freeport City]], [[Belhavia]]
| location            = [[Dervaylik]], [[Yisrael]]
|coordinates=
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| key_people          = [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]] ({{wp|President (corporate title)|President}} and {{wp|CEO}})<br>[[Kalian family|Devorah Kalian]] ({{wp|Board of Directors|Chairwoman of the Board}})<br>[[Kalian family|Liam Stryker]] ({{wp|General counsel|General Counsel}})<br>[[Kalian family|Rivka Kalian]] ({{wp|CFO}})<br>[[Kalian family|Schlomo Kalian]] ({{wp|Editor-in-chief}} of the ''[[Provisa Times|PT]]'')<br>[[Kalian family|Yitzchak Kalian]] ({{wp|Editor-in-chief}} of the ''[[International Financial Insider|IFI]]'')
| key_people          = [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]] ({{wp|President (corporate title)|President}} and {{wp|CEO}})<br>[[Kalian family|Devorah Kalian]] ({{wp|Board of Directors|Chairwoman of the Board}})<br>[[Kalian family|Liam Stryker]] ({{wp|General counsel|General Counsel}})<br>[[Kalian family|Rivka Kalian]] ({{wp|CFO}})<br>[[Kalian family|Shlomo Kalian]] ({{wp|Editor-in-chief}} of the ''[[List_of_media_outlets_in_Yisrael#Print|Zman Yisrael]]'')<br>[[Kalian family|Yitzchak Kalian]] ({{wp|Editor-in-chief}} of the ''[[International Financial Insider|IFI]]'')
| area_served          = [[Pardes|Worldwide]]
| area_served          = [[Ajax|Worldwide]]
| industry            = {{wp|Mass media}}
| industry            = {{wp|Mass media}}
| products            = {{wp|Broadcasting|Broadcast media}}<br>{{wp|Print media}}<br>{{wp|Film}}<br>{{wp|Entertainment}}<br>{{wp|Cable channel|Cable network programming}}<br>{{wp|Publishing}}<br>{{wp|Direct-broadcast satellite}} television
| products            = {{wp|Broadcasting|Broadcast media}}<br>{{wp|Print media}}<br>{{wp|Film}}<br>{{wp|Entertainment}}<br>{{wp|Cable channel|Cable network programming}}<br>{{wp|Publishing}}<br>{{wp|Direct-broadcast satellite}} television
| services            =  
| services            =  
| subsid              =  
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| revenue              = {{Decrease}} [[Belhavian shekel|$]]31.87 billion {{small|(FY 2015)}}  
| revenue              = {{Decrease}} [[Yisraeli new shekel|$]]31.87 billion {{small|(FY 2020)}}  
| operating_income    = {{Increase}} [[Belhavian shekel|$]]5.24 billion (2015)
| operating_income    = {{Increase}} [[Yisraeli new shekel|$]]5.24 billion (2020)
| net_income          = {{Increase}} [[Belhavian shekel|$]]4.30 billion (2015)
| net_income          = {{Increase}} [[Yisraeli new shekel|$]]4.30 billion (2020)
| assets              = {{Increase}} [[Belhavian shekel|$]]58.94 billion (2015)
| assets              = {{Increase}} [[Yisraeli new shekel|$]]58.94 billion (2020)
| equity              = {{Decrease}} [[Belhavian shekel|$]]16.997 billion (2015)
| equity              = {{Decrease}} [[Yisraeli new shekel|$]]16.997 billion (2020)
| num_employees        = 29,456 (2015)
| num_employees        = 29,456 (2020)
| homepage            =  
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}}
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'''Kalian Media Group''' is an [[Belhavia|Belhavian]] {{wp|Multinational corporation|multinational}} {{wp|Mass media|mass media}} corporation. It is the legal and corporate successor to the 2004 {{wp|Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|bankruptcy reorganizations}} of the then-separate '''Kalian Newspaper Group''' and '''Kalian Global Entertainment Corp'''. KMG, as of 2015, is estimated to own approximately 40% of all media in [[Belhavia]], and has extensive operations [[Pardes|worldwide]], including in [[Unified Tippercommon Republics|Tippercommon]], [[URE|Emmeria]], the [[Former states of the Western Confederal States|former Western States]], [[Rodarion]], [[Arthurista]], [[Tarsas]], [[Temuair]], [[Westonaria]], and [[Anikatia]].
'''Kalian Media Group''' is a [[Yisrael]]i {{wp|Multinational corporation|multinational}} {{wp|Mass media|mass media}} corporation. It is the legal and corporate successor to the 2004 {{wp|Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|bankruptcy reorganizations}} of the then-separate '''Kalian Newspaper Group''' and '''Kalian Global Entertainment Corp'''. KMG, as of 2021, is estimated to own approximately 40% of all media in [[Yisrael]], and has extensive operations [[Ajax|worldwide]], including in [[Sydalon]], [[Garza]], [[Gran Aligonia]], [[Arthurista]], [[Belfras]], [[Suvarova]], [[Sante Reze]], [[Ghant]], and [[Lihnidos]].


It is headquartered in [[Freeport City]], and has a storied history due to its founding family, [[Kalian family|the Kalians]], who own and control the corporation until the present, making them [[Wealthiest_People_of_Pardes#Family_rankings|among the wealthiest persons]] in both [[Belhavia]] and the [[Pardes|world]]. KMG is well-known for being the parent company and publisher of Belhavian and global {{wp|newspaper of record|newspapers of record}} ''The [[Provisa Times]]'' and ''The [[International Financial Insider]]'' as well as owner of '''Mesorah Broadcasting Company''', one of [[Belhavia#Media|Belhavia's largest television networks]].
It is headquartered in [[Dervaylik]], and has a storied history due to its founding family, [[Kalian family|the Kalians]], who own and control the corporation until the present, making them among the wealthiest persons in Yisrael and direct competitors with the [[Roth family]] and [[Roth Group|their assets]]. KMG is well-known for being the parent company and publisher of Yisraeli daily newspaper ''[[List_of_media_outlets_in_Yisrael#Print|Zman Yisrael]]'' and the ''[[International Financial Insider]]'' as well as owner of '''Mesorah Broadcasting Company''', one of [[Yisrael#Media|the country's largest television networks]].  
 
It is [[Enterprise_Diamond_500#2014_2|one of the top 52 companies in the world]] according to the [[Enterprise Diamond 500|Enterprise Diamond 500 list]] published by ''[[Enterprise]]''.  


==Operations==
==Operations==
===Corporate Governance===
===Corporate governance===


The corporation's leadership is a closely-held {{wp|Family dictatorship|family succession}} whereby family members, in-laws, and longtime family friends and allies control key positions and institutions in KMG and its affiliates and subsidiaries.  
The corporation's leadership is a closely-held {{wp|Family dictatorship|family succession}} whereby family members, in-laws, and longtime family friends and allies control key positions and institutions in KMG and its affiliates and subsidiaries.  


====Board of Directors====
====Board of directors====


The {{wp|Board of Directors}} is chaired by [[Kalian family|Devorah Kalian]], who also sits on the Board as an individual director. [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]], the corporate president and CEO, also sits on the Board as a {{wp|Board_of_directors#Inside_director|inside director}}. Family relatives, friends, and allies control a clear majority of the corporate governing body.
The {{wp|Board of Directors}} is chaired by [[Kalian family|Devorah Kalian]], who also sits on the Board as an individual director. [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]], the corporate president and CEO, also sits on the Board as a {{wp|Board_of_directors#Inside_director|inside director}}. Family relatives, friends, and allies control a clear majority of the corporate governing body.


====Executive Managers====
====Executive management====


The {{wp|chief executive officer}} and {{wp|President (corporate title)|corporate president}} is held by family patriarch [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]]. His daughter, [[Kalian family|Rivka Kalian]], serves as {{wp|chief financial officer}}. Rivka's husband, [[Kalian family|Liam Stryker]], is the current {{wp|general counsel}}.  
The {{wp|chief executive officer}} and {{wp|President (corporate title)|corporate president}} is held by family patriarch [[Kalian family|Saul Kalian]]. His daughter, [[Kalian family|Rivka Kalian]], serves as {{wp|chief financial officer}}. Rivka's husband, [[Kalian family|Liam Stryker]], is the current {{wp|general counsel}}.  


Saul's younger sons, [[Kalian family|Schlomo]] and [[Kalian family|Yitzchak]], are the {{wp|editor-in-chief|editors-in-chief}} of ''The [[Provisa Times]]'' and  ''The [[International Financial Insider]]'', respectively.  
Saul's younger sons, [[Kalian family|Shlomo]] and [[Kalian family|Yitzchak]], are the {{wp|editor-in-chief|editors-in-chief}} of ''Zman Yisrael'' and  ''The International Financial Insider'', respectively.  


==Subsidiaries and Affiliates==
==Subsidiaries and Affiliates==
===List of assets of KMG===
===List of assets of KMG===
* ''The [[Provisa Times]]''
* ''[[List_of_media_outlets_in_Yisrael#Print|Zman Yisrael]]''
* Mesorah Broadcasting Company
* Mesorah Broadcasting Company
* ''The [[International Financial Insider]]''
* ''The [[International Financial Insider]]''
* [[:Category:Belhavia|PROVISAINSIDER.com]]
* [[List_of_media_outlets_in_Yisrael#Broadcast|Channel 14 News]]
* Weiss-Strauss Publishing Company
* Weiss-Strauss Publishing Company
* [[:Category:Belhavia|Aish Kodesh Film Studio]]
* [[:Category:Yisrael|Aish Kodesh Film Studio]]
* ''The [[Aisling Inquirer]]''
* ''The Chol Press''
* [[Temuair#Media_and_Entertainment|Mesorah Broadcasting Temuair]]
* ''The [[Vistrovio|Vistrovio Star]]''
* ''The [[Far East Business Review]]''
* ''The [[Tel Avson#Media|Avsoner Hamodia]]''
* ''The [[Arkania#Media|Netiyot Herald]]''
* ''Imperial Weekly'' (national {{wp|news magazine}})
* ''The [[Ashkelon#Media|Ashkelon Coastal Intelligencer]]''
* ''The [[Ashkelon#Media|Ashkelon Coastal Intelligencer]]''
* ''[[Sydalon#Major_cities|Tacora Philippopolis]]'' (The Philloppolis Journal) ([[Sydalon]])
* ''[[Suvarova|Kryssiyskaya Gazeta]]'' (The Kryssiyskaya Gazzette) ([[Suvarova]])
* ''[[Suvarova|Federalnaya Pochta]]'' (The Federal Morning Post) ([[Suvarova]])


==Products and Services==
==Products and Services==
==Controversies and Public Image==
* '''News reporting'''
** {{wp|Print media|Print}}, {{wp|Broadcast media|broadcast}}, and {{wp|Internet media|Internet}} services
* '''Film and movie production'''
* '''Entertainment programming'''
** {{wp|Cable channel|Cable network}} and {{wp|Direct-broadcast satellite|satellite network}} television
* '''Publishing'''
** {{wp|Imprint (publishing)|Imprint presses}}, {{wp|publishing house}}s
 
==Public image and controversies==
{{main|Kalian family}}
{{main|Kalian family}}
===Political Controversies===
===Public image===
===Public Image===
====Iron Twins====
{{main|Fate#Controversies}}


The so-called "Iron Twins" ([[Kalian family|Devorah and Rivka Kalian]]) have tussled repeated with [[Temuair|Aisling]] {{wp|Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid magazine}} ''[[Fate]]'' since the mid-1990s, suing the tabloid several times, unsuccessfully, after the tabloid has run headline articles and "{{wp|exposé (journalism)|exposés}}" painting the sisters - high-powered KMG executives - in an overly negative, unflattering, and detrimental light.
The Kalians and their media companies are viewed as an ambitious, burgeoning business empire. Emerging in the early 1950s after the forcible consolidation and narrowing of the media market in Yisrael during the [[Autocracy regime]] and [[Year of Blood]], the Kalians first started in {{wp|radio}}, before going into {{wp|television}} in the 1960s and 1970s, including shifting towards {{wp|cable channel|cable TV}} and {{wp|Direct-broadcast satellite|satellite-direct TV}} by the 1980s and 1990s.  


====Social Control Through Media====
After the [[Yarden Accords]], the Kalian media companies bought up several newspapers and TV stations in [[Sydalon]] and later [[Garza]]. In the early 2000s, during a wave of media {{wp|privatization}}s in [[Suvarova]], KMG and its competitor, the [[Roth Group|Roth subsidiary Bel-Scip Media]], bid against each other to 'snap up' ultra-cheap Suvarovan media outlets up for sale.


Numerous critics in media and academia have asserted that KMG exercises an outstretched control over social influence due to [[Belhavia#Media|its plurality-majority dominance over Belhavian media markets]] as well as extensive [[Pardes|overseas]] media properties and influence touching every [[Continents of Pardes|continent]].  
While always active in politics, the Kalians used their media assets with renewed rigor to support the centrist middle-income [[Action Yisrael]] and [[Alternative for Yisrael]] parties in the 2010s, utilizing editorial control over brand newspapers such as ''Zman Yisrael''.


Left-wing social commentator and {{wp|philosopher}} [[Wesley Canvess]] noted as early as 1991 from his exile from [[Belhavia]] in [[URE|Emmeria]] that "[KMG] has enormous control over influencing public opinion and politics through slanted media presentations, selective editing of reporting, and magnifying voices [[Kalian family|its masters]] want to be heard. Want a president to lose re-election? Just amplify the opposition's messages across its massive portfolio of media platforms and properties. Want to spark a {{wp|moral panic}}? Just keep having its news anchors and journalists repeat a fact or event over and over enough until it becomes mantra."
====Iron Twins====
 
[[Rodarion|Rodarian]] professor of media and journalism, [[Fabio Cavallo]], upon visiting [[Free Pardes]] wrote in his 2006 essay ''The Forms of Social Control in the New Millennium: The Rise of Disruptive New Media'' that "one can see the insidious, unconscious power transnational media corporations like the Kalian Media Group or others of that ilk have over their customers, and by extension, their countries and societies. Simply repeating or emphasizing a point by a news anchor, or continuously presenting a news item as 'important', influences, often subtly, target audiences' views, beliefs, and perceptions. KMG and other global media control our world by controlling public and elite opinions."
 
Critics noted that President [[Garret Holleran]]'s unsuccessful 2001-2002 efforts to cease enforcement of the [[White Terror laws]] came about after KMG outlets began to report continuous, day-in and day-out the positive efforts of the laws and the dangers of ceasing to enforce them would likely cause by giving significant amount of airtime to conservative commentators and points of views while critics of the laws were only given token time to express support for Holleran's efforts.


==== Compliance with Rodarian censorship ====
The so-called "Iron Twins" ([[Kalian family|Devorah and Rivka Kalian]]) have tussled repeated with [[Ghant]]ish {{wp|Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid magazine}} ''[[Ghant|The Nibbler]]'' since the mid-1990s, suing the tabloid several times, unsuccessfully, after the tabloid has run headline articles and "{{wp|exposé (journalism)|exposés}}" painting the sisters - high-powered KMG executives - in an overly negative, unflattering, and detrimental light.


In late 2013, it was found that KMG's newspaper in Rodarion, ''The [[:Category:Rodarion|Vistrovio Star]]'' and its {{wp|Italian Language|Rodarian}} language website for ''The [[Provisa Times]]'' newspaper, certain running storylines in Rodarion were omitted entirely or changed to reflect a less anti-regime stance. Emails leaked between the Rodarian [[Ministry of Christian Culture and Guidance]], Interior Ministry to the KMG stated clearly that in order for KMG to keep its businesses and services in the Papal Republic, it would have to conform to "media standards", a widely accepted term for censorship. In April 2014, following the arrest of [[Lucrezia Olivieri]], a senior human rights lawyer, the domestic website for ''The Times'' denounced the arrest of an innocent "crusader for civil rights", whilst the Rodarian language service completely ignored the story and instead maintained its main article on the government's decision to spend $5.9 billion on several wind farms.
===Political controversies===
====Suvarovan censorship scandal====


The Olivieri Case worsened in November 2014, following the [[Rodarian general election, 2014|2014 General Election]], when Olivieri was sentenced to life imprisonment for "attempting to sow disunity" over her efforts to increase transparency in the treatment of prisoners in Rodarian prisons. All major newspapers throughout [[Free Pardes]] denounced it as "barbaric and the act of a flawed and truly authoritarian state," yet the Rodarian service actually published articles supporting the sentence; this provoked major criticisms of KMG by Rodarian liberals and reformists, as well as criticism from the liberal circles in [[Belhavia]].
==See also==


* [[Yisrael#Media|Media in Yisrael]]
* [[List of media outlets in Yisrael]]


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Revision as of 21:07, 18 January 2021

Kalian Media Group
Public
Traded asDSBE: KMG
IndustryMass media
FoundedApril 27, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-04-27) (as Kalian Radio Holding Company)
FounderAllan Kalian
HeadquartersDervaylik, Yisrael
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Saul Kalian (President and CEO)
Devorah Kalian (Chairwoman of the Board)
Liam Stryker (General Counsel)
Rivka Kalian (CFO)
Shlomo Kalian (Editor-in-chief of the Zman Yisrael)
Yitzchak Kalian (Editor-in-chief of the IFI)
ProductsBroadcast media
Print media
Film
Entertainment
Cable network programming
Publishing
Direct-broadcast satellite television
RevenueDecrease $31.87 billion (FY 2020)
Increase $5.24 billion (2020)
Increase $4.30 billion (2020)
Total assetsIncrease $58.94 billion (2020)
Total equityDecrease $16.997 billion (2020)
Number of employees
29,456 (2020)

Kalian Media Group is a Yisraeli multinational mass media corporation. It is the legal and corporate successor to the 2004 bankruptcy reorganizations of the then-separate Kalian Newspaper Group and Kalian Global Entertainment Corp. KMG, as of 2021, is estimated to own approximately 40% of all media in Yisrael, and has extensive operations worldwide, including in Sydalon, Garza, Gran Aligonia, Arthurista, Belfras, Suvarova, Sante Reze, Ghant, and Lihnidos.

It is headquartered in Dervaylik, and has a storied history due to its founding family, the Kalians, who own and control the corporation until the present, making them among the wealthiest persons in Yisrael and direct competitors with the Roth family and their assets. KMG is well-known for being the parent company and publisher of Yisraeli daily newspaper Zman Yisrael and the International Financial Insider as well as owner of Mesorah Broadcasting Company, one of the country's largest television networks.

Operations

Corporate governance

The corporation's leadership is a closely-held family succession whereby family members, in-laws, and longtime family friends and allies control key positions and institutions in KMG and its affiliates and subsidiaries.

Board of directors

The Board of Directors is chaired by Devorah Kalian, who also sits on the Board as an individual director. Saul Kalian, the corporate president and CEO, also sits on the Board as a inside director. Family relatives, friends, and allies control a clear majority of the corporate governing body.

Executive management

The chief executive officer and corporate president is held by family patriarch Saul Kalian. His daughter, Rivka Kalian, serves as chief financial officer. Rivka's husband, Liam Stryker, is the current general counsel.

Saul's younger sons, Shlomo and Yitzchak, are the editors-in-chief of Zman Yisrael and The International Financial Insider, respectively.

Subsidiaries and Affiliates

List of assets of KMG

Products and Services

Public image and controversies

Main article: Kalian family

Public image

The Kalians and their media companies are viewed as an ambitious, burgeoning business empire. Emerging in the early 1950s after the forcible consolidation and narrowing of the media market in Yisrael during the Autocracy regime and Year of Blood, the Kalians first started in radio, before going into television in the 1960s and 1970s, including shifting towards cable TV and satellite-direct TV by the 1980s and 1990s.

After the Yarden Accords, the Kalian media companies bought up several newspapers and TV stations in Sydalon and later Garza. In the early 2000s, during a wave of media privatizations in Suvarova, KMG and its competitor, the Roth subsidiary Bel-Scip Media, bid against each other to 'snap up' ultra-cheap Suvarovan media outlets up for sale.

While always active in politics, the Kalians used their media assets with renewed rigor to support the centrist middle-income Action Yisrael and Alternative for Yisrael parties in the 2010s, utilizing editorial control over brand newspapers such as Zman Yisrael.

Iron Twins

The so-called "Iron Twins" (Devorah and Rivka Kalian) have tussled repeated with Ghantish tabloid magazine The Nibbler since the mid-1990s, suing the tabloid several times, unsuccessfully, after the tabloid has run headline articles and "exposés" painting the sisters - high-powered KMG executives - in an overly negative, unflattering, and detrimental light.

Political controversies

Suvarovan censorship scandal

See also

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