CatCo Worldwide Media (Earth-38)

CatCo Worldwide Media
Information
Location	National City; California
Use(s)	Media conglomerate
Owner(s)	Cat Grant (formerly) L-Corp (formerly) Andrea Rojas
CEO(s)	Cat Grant (formerly) James Olsen (formerly) Andrea Rojas

"You don't build a company like CatCo by being a wallflower and not having an opinion and a strong point of view."

—Cat Grant^[src]

CatCo Worldwide Media, or simply known as CatCo, is a media conglomerate founded by Cat Grant. It is located in National City on Earth-38. After Cat left CatCo to work with president Olivia Marsdin, the company was run by Snapper Carr and James Olsen, and was later bought by Lena Luthor. Two years later, Lena sold CatCo to Andrea Rojas.

History

Beginnings of CatCo Worldwide Media

CatCo Worldwide Media was built from the ground up by Cat Grant. Its first acquisition was the National City Tribune.

Change in ownership

After Cat left CatCo Worldwide Media to become President Olivia Marsdin's White House press secretary, she left all her shares in a blind trust. Morgan Edge began buying up the shares and after making an offer to the majority shareholders, he eventually announced his plan to buy CatCo so that he could use the company to give himself better press. Lena Luthor, in an attempt to both stop this from happening and one-up Morgan, bought the company first for $750 million.

New ownership

In late 2019, Lena sold CatCo Worldwide Media to her old friend, Andrea Rojas, for $1.3 billion.

Known employees

Current employees

• Andrea Rojas (owner and editor-in-chief)
• Snapper Carr (editor-in-chief of CatCo Magazine; on sabbatical)
• Kara Danvers (reporter and part-time copy editor)
• Dave
• Franklin (reporter)
• Hayashi
• Mackenzie (reporter)
• Nia Nal (reporter)
• William Dey (reporter)
• Dardine (photojournalist)

Former employees

• Cat Grant (founder and CEO; became Olivia Marsdin's white house press secretary)
• Lena Luthor (owner; sold the company)
• James Olsen (art director, later CEO and editor-in-chief; resigned)
• Winn Schott (I.T./programmer; left to work for the D.E.O.)
• Leslie Willis (shock jock; fired; deceased)
• Mike Matthews (intern; fired)
• Dirk Armstrong (board of directors member; fired)
• Ed Flaherty (actuaries; deceased)
• Kelly (deceased)
• Lucy Lane (general counsel; resigned)
• Siobhan Smythe (personal assistant; fired)
• Eve Teschmacher (personal assistant to James Olsen and Lena Luthor; revealed to be a spy for Lex Luthor)

Appearances

Supergirl

Season 1 "Pilot" "Stronger Together" "Fight or Flight" "Livewire" "How Does She Do It?" "Red Faced" "Human For a Day" "Hostile Takeover" "Blood Bonds" "Childish Things" "Strange Visitor From Another Planet" "Bizarro" "For the Girl Who Has Everything" "Truth, Justice and the American Way" "Solitude" "Falling" "Manhunter" "Worlds Finest" "Myriad" "Better Angels" Season 2 "The Adventures of Supergirl" "The Last Children of Krypton" "Welcome to Earth" "Survivors" "Crossfire" "Changing" "The Darkest Place" "Supergirl Lives" "We Can Be Heroes" "The Martian Chronicles" "Luthors" "Exodus" "Star-Crossed" "Distant Sun" (mentioned) "Ace Reporter" "Alex" "City of Lost Children" "Resist" "Nevertheless, She Persisted" Season 3 "Girl of Steel" "Triggers" "The Faithful" "Damage" "Reign" "Legion of Super-Heroes" "Fort Rozz" (mentioned) "For Good" "In Search of Lost Time" (mentioned) "Of Two Minds" (mentioned) "Trinity" "The Fanatical" "Not Kansas" "Make it Reign" (mentioned) "Battles Lost and Won" Season 4 "American Alien" "Fallout" "Man of Steel" (flashbacks) "Ahimsa" "Parasite Lost" "Call to Action" "Bunker Hill" "Suspicious Minds" "Blood Memory" "Menagerie" "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?" "Stand and Deliver" "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" "The House of L" (mentioned) "All About Eve" "Crime and Punishment" "American Dreamer" "Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?" "Red Dawn" (mentioned) "The Quest for Peace" Season 5 "Event Horizon" "Stranger Beside Me" "Blurred Lines" "In Plain Sight" "Dangerous Liaisons" "Confidence Women" (mentioned) "The Wrath of Rama Khan" "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"

The Flash

Season 3

• "Dead or Alive"

Comics

Adventures of Supergirl

• "Sistery Mystery"
• "The Strange Case of the Smiling Computer"
• "Attack Edge!"
• "Sistery Mystery (Reprise)" (mentioned)
• "End Games" (mentioned)
• "Breaking Point"

Trivia

• Cat had a rule that employees must never show up if they're sick.
  • As a result, Cat had a poor understanding of how long it took people to get over illnesses, as she threatened to have Kara fired for being sick more than a day (which was a cover story while Kara was in a Black Mercy-induced coma) and was later confused when Kara didn't show up for work in the afternoon after calling in sick earlier that morning.
• Cat had a personal elevator built into the building to avoid crowds, which only she was allowed to use. When Lena Luthor bought CatCo however, she allowed other employees to use the elevator if needed.
  • At some point, James Olsen had Winn Schott build a secret compartment in the elevator to store his Guardian suit.
• Following the damage to CatCo from the attempted terraforming at the end of Season 3, the CEO's office was later redesigned in Season 4, losing the white color scheme; it was replaced with more Earth-tone colors and wood panelling. The television screens were also rearranged neatly into a square instead of the mosaic layout Cat originally had them in.
  • After Andrea bought CatCo in Season 5, she remodeled the office back to its white color with more simplistic and streamlined furniture. She also included a spiral staircase down to Obsidian Tech on the floor below.

Behind the scenes

• Even though the company was an original creation for the show, it made its first official appearance in the mainstream DC universe in Supergirl vol. 7 #2.

References

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