The Roanoke Times newspaper serving the Southwestern region of Virginia with news, sports coverage, and lifestyle features. In addition to its flagship publication, Times-World produces specialized niche publications including HomesNOW, Inside Out, Job Market, Neighbors, and News River Valley Current. The company also publishes the regional business publication Blue Ridge Business Journal. First published in 1886 as The Roanoke Daily Times by founding publisher M. H. Claytor, The Roanoke Times was the area's first daily paper. Times-World is owned by Landmark Media Enterprises, which also owns North Carolina's News & Record newspaper through Greensboro News & Record.

Emily and David Broom founded Broom & Broom, Inc. in 1980. The independent creative design firm offers its services for a variety of products, including annual reports, marketing collateral, packaging, Web sites, corporate signage, events, and multimedia presentations. It has worked for such clients as 24 Hour Fitness, Bank of America, McKesson, National Semiconductor, and Williams-Sonoma.

Ricochet produces television content through Ricochet Films and Ricochet South.Ricochet Limited also operates Ricochet Digital (multimedia, youth programming, and documentaries). Ricochet South took its reality series Supernanny across the Atlantic, where the US version became a big hit for ABC. Other Ricochet creations include How Not to Decorate, Risking It All (potential entrepreneurs gambling everything to get their own business), Flying Heavy Metal (a history of passenger flight hosted by Iron Maiden musician Bruce Dickinson), and Sleeping Your Way to the Top (a documentary on women using their femininity to improve their lots in life.) The company is owned by Shed Media.

Founded by Claude T. Grizzard in 1928, Grizzard Communications Group, Inc. is part of the Diversified Agency Services division of advertising giant Omnicom Group. Grizzard Communications Group is a leading direct marketing agency that specializes in designing campaigns for charities, fund raisers, and other non-profit groups. It offers creative development and list management services, as well as mailing and fulfillment. Grizzard's clients have included such notable companies as The American Red Cross, the National Cancer Institute, and The Salvation Army. The agency also offers services to commercial clients through its Grizzard Performance Group.

Samuel Goldwyn Films is an independent film distributor. The company's titles, which target niche audiences who appreciate smaller-budget art house films, include The Squid and the Whale, Raising Victor Vargas, and Super Size Me. More recent releases include Management and Brothers at War. Samuel Goldwyn's IDP Distribution unit provides marketing, publicity, and booking services. The company also distributes its movies to premium movie channel Epix (owned by Paramount, Lions Gate, and MGM). Samuel Goldwyn Films is the latest incarnation of The Samuel Goldwyn Company, which was created by chairman Samuel Goldwyn Jr. in the late 1970s.

Celador Entertainment Ltd company originated Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (The famous quiz show is now licensed in more than 100 countries.) Celador, which sells its productions to TV networks in the UK and internationally, also produces other games shows, as well as situation comedies, variety programs, stand-up comedy series, awards shows, documentaries, and music events. In addition, the company produces radio programs including It's Been A Bad Week, Three Off The Tee, and That Was Then, This Is Now.

Founded in 1997, Berlin Cameron is the flagship agency of The United Network, one of the advertising networks of UK-based marketing services conglomerate WPP Group. Other units and agencies within the micro-network include Cole & Weber (based in Seattle), BTS (Oslo, Norway), and 1861 (Milan, Italy).You might say this company is united behind the idea of making great ads. Berlin Cameron is a leading creative advertising agency in the US, offering ad development services for television, print, and interactive media, as well as services for campaign planning and management. The firm has worked for such clients as Nextel, Pfizer, and The Wall Street Journal.

MGM is a leading Hollywood moviemaker through production units MGM Studios and United Artists (UA). Its films have included Rocky Balboa, Quantum of Solace, and The Taking of Pelham 123. Through MGM Television it produces TV shows such as Stargate Universe (on NBC Universal's Syfy channel) and the animated Spaceballs (G4). The company also owns one of the largest film libraries in the world, with about 4,000 titles, including the Bond and Pink Panther series. Its MGM Home Entertainment distributes films on DVD. MGM is owned by a consortium of investors led by Sony Corporation of America.

The parent company Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso SpA, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, publishes the national daily newspaper la Repubblica and the weekly magazine L'Espresso. Through its subsidiaries it also publishes 18 local daily newspapers, broadcasts three national radio stations (including Radio Deejay) and has one TV network. L’Espresso also operates in the internet sector and collects advertising for the Group publications and also for some third-party publications. Chairman is Carlo De Benedetti and company’s CEO is Monica Mondardini.

Founded in 2001, Tribal Fusion is owned by Exponential Interactive, a media company specializing in online marketing and advertising. Tribal Fusion puts interactive ads (banners and rich media formats) on relevant Web sites and in front of Web surfers. Reaching millions of users each month, the firm helps Web publishers sell ads on their sites and advertisers find the right sites for their ads, offering targeted ad placement on a site-specific, channel-wide, or run-of network basis. Tribal Fusion also offers campaign management and optimization services for advertisers. Tribal Fusion's channels cover such content areas as entertainment, health, news, shopping, sports, and travel.

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