Raycom Media is a leading television station group with more than 45 stations serving markets in about 20 states. It has local stations affiliated with all four major networks, as well as netlets The CW and MyNetworkTV. In addition to its TV stations, Raycom is involved in sports programming and promotion through its Raycom Sports subsidiary, which holds the broadcasting rights to Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college basketball games, as well as syndication rights to ACC football games. Raycom also has post production and advertising sales operations. The employee-owned company was formed in 1996.

Intertainment AG Company acquires theatrical rights, video, and television rights to films from the US and other locations and markets them in Germany and the rest of Europe. It holds a pan-European distribution deal with Warner Bros. Studios (which holds the world's largest film library) for film and pay-television rights. It also markets films in the huge Chinese market. The company deals in cartoon distribution and merchandising through its Intertainment Animation & Merchandising subsidiary. Intertainment filed for bankruptcy protection in 2006 and was rescued out of it by German rival Kinowelt.

Big Sky Communications can open the public relations horizons for Silicon Valley companies. Founded in 1994 by Katy Boos (partner) and Colleen Muller Padnos (partner), Big Sky Communications is a boutique public relations and marketing communications agency serving the technology industry. The agency provides companies with public relations, customer success programs, and writing services. Clients include Adobe Systems, Hyperion, and Sun Microsystems.

PARTNERS+simons has been serving the New England region since 1989. The agency integrates traditional media-based advertising and communications services with direct and interactive marketing services to meet the brand development and demand generation needs of its clients. With several distinct practice areas -- including technology, health care, professional services, financial services, and retail -- the agency serves such clients as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Iron Mountain, Agilent Technologies, and Boston University School of Management. Its strategy is led by president and creative director Tom Simons.

The UK-based unit of German publisher Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, is an international publisher of books and journals. It puts out English-language teaching materials through its Macmillan Education unit; its Palgrave Macmillan division focuses on the higher education and professional markets, and its Nature Publishing Group is the scientific publishing arm (and publisher of the respected science journal Nature, founded in 1869). Through its Pan Macmillan unit, Macmillan Publishers company publishes fiction and non-fiction books under such imprints as Pan, Picador, and Sidgwick & Jackson. Macmillan also offers distribution services.

McCann Erickson Advertising is one of the leading ad agencies in the UK, with six offices in England and Ireland. It offers creative ad development services for broadcast, print, and outdoor advertising, as well as campaign planning and management services. Clients have include such noteworthy names as American Airlines, Pfizer, Microsoft, and UPS. McCann Erickson Advertising is part of McCann Worldgroup, the flagship agency network of US-based media conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Towers Productions is a TV production business that focuses on documentary specials and series, including such titles as FBI's Most Wanted (for Discovery Communications' Discovery channel), High School Confidential (WE: Women's Entertainment), and the long-running Biography series for A&E Television. Past productions have included Road to War for the National Geographic Channel and When Weather Changed History (The Weather Channel). Television news producer Jonathan Towers left CNN to found the company from a spare bedroom in an apartment in 1989.

Kensington Publishing holds court with readers. The independent publisher sells hardcover, trade, and mass market fiction and non-fiction books through its Kensington, Zebra, Pinnacle, and Citadel imprints. The company publishes about 600 titles a year and has a backlist of more than 3,000. Romance and women's fiction account for more than half of its titles published each year. Other niche topics covered include wicca, gambling, gay & lesbian, and military history. Readers can turn to the company's Rebel Base Books Web site to order titles such as I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, which sold more than 70,000 copies its first year and made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Renegade agency provides interactive (and more traditional) marketing services for clients from a variety of industries, including consumer goods, financial services, and technology. Renegade company's services encompass Web site and application development, database development and marketing, promotional marketing, collateral design, public relations, and guerrilla marketing. Clients over the years have included such leading companies as Casio, Citibank, Hasbro, IBM, and Nike. Founded in 1996, Renegade was owned by Japanese advertising agency Dentsu until late 2008, when it was bought out by management.

Yell is a leading international directories business operating in the classified advertising market in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Yell puts buyers in touch with sellers through an integrated portfolio of simple to use, cost-effective advertising products available as printed, online and telephone media. We aim to be the best provider of quality business leads in all our markets. Across our countries we provide high-quality leads to our advertisers through a range of channels which include classified directories, local guides, online local search, search engines, operator assisted phone services and mobile-specific applications.

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