• Advertising Age, Monday, September 29, 2008 10 AM

Last year, the nation's top 100 media companies saw their slowest growth since the recession year of 2001, a slim increase of 4.6%. In comparison, the country's GDP last year was up a tepid 2%.

Media's biggest winner is no surprise: digital, with revenues up 10.8%. Cable-network growth was close behind, at 10.6%. The biggest loser: newspapers, down 6.8%.

Time Warner topped the list with net U.S. media revenue of $35.6 billion. Time Warner collected 11.9% of Media 100 revenue -- nearly one of every eight dollars earned by the major media companies.

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