The year 2009 had many media bright spots, break-out stars, dominating networks and game-changing technologies. The Mediaite 50 collects the finest, most exemplary innovators and influencers of the year, defining a media moment in time and setting the agenda as we move forward. See the full list after the jump:

This weekend’s New York Times feature about Bloomberg L.P., the “28-year-old media and technology company” started by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1981, reads like anachronistic peek into the bygone days of media, packed with equal parts success and hubris, looking both to history and to the future. But with “free kiwis and pomegranates,” haven’t we been here before?