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Your chart is inaccurate.

Comcast is not owned by GE. Comcast is a publicly traded company in it's own right, CMCSA on the NASDAQ.

Comcast owns NBC Universal, which they bought from GE. Per Wikipedia: " Since 2013, the company is wholly owned by Comcast, which bought GE's ownership stake."

It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue and the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia.[9] As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011,[10][11][12][13]
Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast, respectively.

So, if you want an accurate meme you should replace the GE column with Comcast, who own NBCUniversal. GE doesn't participate in media much anymore.

Another error: Time/Warner no longer exists.

On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion (including assumed Time Warner debt).[5][6] The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018,[7] after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition.[8] The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T.[9]

So that column should probably be re-lableled at AT&T.

None of these errors detracts from the main point that the media is pretty consolidated.

That’s what I said ...see above (I don’t think it’s in festival) and also on the stand alone thread.

The graphic is from much earlier around 2012 I think - it’s been up and on the internet for ages. Replace GE with Comcast (which is in the column anyway) and the graphic is otherwise correct from what I know.

I’m sure it was a matter of using something readily available.