Lightning Entertainment Productions is a worldwide distributor and licensor of independent films. The company's catalog includes titles such as Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Cougar Club, Kenny, and Tortilla Heaven. Subsidiary Lightning Media focuses on US film distribution and has partnerships with Anchor Bay Entertainment and Lions Gate Entertainment. Another unit, Mainline Releasing, specializes in distributing made-for-TV and direct-to-DVD films. Lightning Entertainment was founded in 2002 by Richard Guardian, a veteran film distribution and sales executive, along with Rich Goldberg and Marc Greenberg.

The Spokesman-Review is the largest news and information provider in the Inland Northwest. The newspaper traces its origin to the founding of the Spokane Falls Review in 1883. In 1893, the Review merged with its rival, The Spokesman, under the leadership of Publisher William H. Cowles. Later the company would buy the Spokane Daily Chronicle, which continued as a separate newspaper until Review and Chronicle newsrooms merged in 1983. The Chronicle existed until 1992. The Spokesman-Review is still owned by the Cowles family, whose members continue to reside in Spokane and are actively involved in civic betterment efforts in addition to Cowles Company operations. Today, publisher William Stacey Cowles represents the fourth generation of his family to oversee the newspaper.

EMI's business is keeping music fans entertained. The #4 record company in terms of market share (behind Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group) houses recorded music segment EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing. EMI Music distributes CDs, videos, and other formats primarily through imprints and divisions such as Capitol Records and Virgin, and sports a roster of artists such as The Beastie Boys, Norah Jones, and Lenny Kravitz. EMI Music Publishing, the world's largest music publisher, handles the rights to more than a million songs. EMI Music operates through regional divisions (EMI Music North America, International, and UK & Ireland). Private equity firm Terra Firma owns EMI.

Broadcast Company of the Americas (BCA) owns and operates three radio stations in Mexico that serve the San Diego market, including its flagship XX Sports Radio 1090-AM. In addition to 24-hour sports radio programming, the station serves as the flagship station of the San Diego Padres baseball team. The company also owns San Diego 1700-AM (The Talk of San Diego) and music station 105.7-FM (The Walrus). BCA was formed in 2003; it is jointly owned by the family of John Lynch and the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians (through Viejas Enterprises).

CEO Sabrina Horn started Horn Group, Inc. in 1991. Horn Group is a public relations firm that provides strategic communications services primarily to companies in the technology industry. the agency specializes in digital communications for branding and marketing, as well as corporate identity and crisis management. Services include website design, interactive multimedia, and social media marketing, as well as communications consulting and traditional marketing content. Horn Group has offices in San Francisco and New York City.

Source Marketing was founded in 1989 by Howard Steinberg, who left in 2004 to open LifeMed Media, a marketing firm for diabetes awareness. Source Marketing company provides a variety of integrated marketing services including direct marketing, promotional marketing, merchandising, and event marketing. Source Marketing specializes in reaching consumers at the local level through sampling, demonstrations, and personality endorsements popping up all over local radio. Source Marketing company has promoted SKYY Vodka, BIC lighters, Panasonic's Blu-Ray DVD players, and Boar's Head deli meats.

Diamond Marketing Solutions Group, Inc., a direct marketing company, through its subsidiaries, provides direct marketing and distribution solutions for consumer and business-to-business direct marketers. The company also provides strategic planning, database marketing, e-marketing, and list management solutions; and direct mail lettershop, product and literature fulfillment, data-driven personalization, and print-on-demand communications solutions. It offers inserting, laser printing, merge/purge, postal sortation, data management, and direct mail package production services to financial services, insurance, gaming, publishing, and catalog marketing industries in Omaha, Nebraska. The company also offers list brokering, data processing and hygiene, postal qualification, Web based fulfillment, and email services to healthcare, not for profit, pharmaceuticals, retail, entertainment, and educational industries.

Founded in 1985, it touts its expertise connecting with women, reinvigorating aging brands, making the most of visual branding, and serving clients in the retail sector. Clients include Hanes, Lowe's, Family Dollar, and Piedmont Federal. The Woodbine Agency offers advertising and marketing solutions, including brand identity design, creation of collateral materials, public relations, and other services. The agency's capabilities include Web-based advertising and traditional advertising (such as outdoor, print, radio, and television), guerrilla marketing, packaging, and point-of-sale design.

Next Media Limited may be a print media conglomerate but it isn't confining its activities to paper. Next Media company publishes and prints a variety of Chinese-language newspapers, magazines, and books for distribution in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Publications include Apple Daily, Next Magazine, Easy Finder and Eat & Travel Weekly. The company publishes separate versions of Apple Daily and Next Magazine for distribution in either Hong Kong or Taiwan. Next Media also distributes its content on the Internet through its atnext.com portal. In addition to supporting its publishing operations, Next Media's print division also prints books, calendars, catalogs, and promotional materials.

Aardman Animations is the studio that created the film Chicken Run (in partnership with DreamWorks) and the BBC animated series Wallace and Gromit. Other projects have include "Flushed Away," the studio's first CG film, another collaboration with DreamWorks, and "Crood Awakening", a prehistoric comedy co-written by actor John Cleese. The studio has received seven Oscar nominations, and has been awarded four. Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by animators David Sproxton and Peter Lord. (The duo is also known for its work on the ground-breaking Peter Gabriel video "Sledgehammer".)

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