https://github.com/defgsus/kek-online-archive

archive of media ownership in germany
https://github.com/defgsus/kek-online-archive

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archive of media ownership in germany

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/defgsus/kek-online-archive
• Owner: defgsus
• Created: 2022-01-07T13:05:42.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-30T23:09:45.000Z (30 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-01T00:20:51.358Z (30 days ago)
• Topics: archive, broadcaster, democracy, historical-data, media, ownership, press, radio, shareholders, tv
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 182 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## archive of [kek-online.de](https://www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank#/)

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The *Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration 

im Medienbereich* (KEK), collects and publishes shareholding

information about german newspapers, radio and tv stations and

online services. 

This archive stores a daily snapshot of their undocumented 

json web API. The files are:

- `docs/data/media.json` (from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/media/)

  

  This is a list of all medias in the KEK database. 

  

- `docs/data/shareholders.json` (from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/shareholders/)

  That's the list of all shareholders and operators/publishers.

  

  All media and shareholders are identified by UUIDs and more

  detailed information for each *entity* is available 

  in the following files:

- `docs/data/media/` 

  - `5be1a6b1-0a0b-42ac-b845-1914e17d572f.json` (from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/media/5be1a6b1-0a0b-42ac-b845-1914e17d572f)

  - ...

- `docs/data/shareholders/` 

  - `5be1a6b6-0a00-491b-9229-bfd0da590573.json` (from https://medienvielfaltsmonitor.de/api/v1/shareholders/5be1a6b6-0a00-491b-9229-bfd0da590573)

  - ...

All data is copyright:

[*Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK)*](https://www.kek-online.de/impressum).

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To build the complete graph of shareholders and media, you need

to parse the individual files in `docs/data/shareholders/` or load

the `docs/data/graph.dot` file. The `dot` format for graphs is 

widely supported, for example by:

- The [Graphviz](https://graphviz.org/) commandline tools

- The [igraph](https://igraph.org/) library for R, Python, Mathematica and C

- The [vis.js](https://visjs.org/) library for Javascript

- The [Gephi](https://gephi.org/) application for Mac, Windows and Linux

From my experience, the fastest way of layouting the graph is Gephi:

Load the dot file, select "ForceAtlas2" in the "Layouter" and "run"

the thing.