(PRAGUE/WASHINGTON) On July 4, 1950, Radio Free Europe (RFE) went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City's Empire State Building. The station signed on with the pledge of delivering news "in the American tradition of free speech." On this Fourth of July, exactly 60 years later, RFE/RL reaches nearly 20 million people in 28 languages and 21 countries (map) including Russia, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It remains a lifeline for people living in war zones and under authoritarian rule who seek accurate and reliable news and information.

RBB was founded in 1975 as Bruce Rubin & Associates. The firm was sold to industry giant Weber Shandwick Worldwide (a unit of Interpublic Group) in 1997, then reacquired by CEO Christine Barney in 2001. In 2010, RBB expanded through the acquisition of fellow Florida PR agency Thorp & Company. RBB Public Relations' work encompasses not only media relations, but also crisis communications, community relations, interactive services, marketing to Hispanic and Latin American communities, and public affairs. Clients have included the Florida Marlins baseball team, Florida Power & Light, and Verizon Wireless.

Cohn & Wolfe, an operating unit of ad giant WPP Group's Young & Rubicam, serves clients from more than 50 offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Its services include crisis management, investor relations, media relations, and public affairs. It also helps clients take the plunge into digital and social media like Facebook and Twitter. Cohn & Wolfe company's specialty divisions provide expertise in the health care, consumer, corporate, energy, entertainment, sports marketing, and technology sectors. Clients have included such notable brands as Taco Bell, LG Electronics, and The Medicines Company.

Founded in 1994, Brainerd specializes in investor relations, media relations, crisis communications, and transaction communications. Brainerd Communicators helps companies bridge the communications divide between corporate America and the throngs of investors, employees, customers, and media. The agency serves the media, entertainment, and communications industries; its client portfolio spans broadcasting, cable, publishing, filmed entertainment, broadband content, video games, music, new media, and advertising/marketing services.

Former CEO Rod Banner founded Banner Corporation plc in 1984. Banner Corporation plc company, a unit of Young & Rubicam Brands, one of the flagship agency networks of UK-based advertising conglomerate WPP Group, advises high-tech clients on all aspects of communicating their brands to the public. Its services include advertising, direct marketing, public relations, media auditing and buying, competitive analysis, website design, and event planning. Banner's blue chip clientele includes AT&T, Cisco Systems, Freescale, Siebel Systems, and Sony.

Raleigh Studios is a film production facility that operates studio lots in California (Hollywood, Manhattan Beach, and Playa Vista) and Louisiana (Baton Rouge). The company leases its sound stages to independent and major companies and provides a host of production and post-production services, such as lighting, stage equipment rentals, set construction, sound and editing, office space, dressing rooms, and screening rooms. Its operations include divisions and subsidiaries such as Hollywood Rentals (lighting equipment), Olesen Lighting (theatrical lighting), and ESS (production equipment). The company, which also offers production services in Europe through Raleigh Film, Budapest, can trace its roots to 1915.

24/7 Real Media provides key elements in the rapidly changing Internet advertising arena: search marketing services, software to host and manage ads, and a network of Web sites that run the ads. 24/7 Real Media's Media Solutions segment provides advertisers access to its network of Web sites and permission-based e-mail marketing database. 24/7 also offers search engine optimization services. Technology offerings revolve around 24/7 Real Media's ad delivery and management software, which allows advertisers to plan, manage, and measure their online campaigns. Owning almost 20 offices across 12 countries, 24/7 is a subsidiary of global communications conglomerate WPP.

Principal Rena Kilgannon founded the agency in 1988 as a direct mail and database firm; Rick McReynolds came on board as a partner in 1997, adding creative and media capabilities before retiring in 2002. Kilgannon (formerly Kilgannon McReynolds) offers some southern comfort to companies that want to find, keep, and grow a customer base. The advertising agency creates TV commercials and radio spots, as well as messages for print, outdoor, and Internet media. The agency primarily has served such regional clients as SouthernLINC Wireless, Suzuki, and the Georgia Force (Arena Football). Other services include market research and strategic consulting.

Noah Education Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiaries provide interactive electronic educational materials to the Chinese elementary, middle, and high school students in the People’s Republic of China. It develops and markets interactive, multimedia learning materials primarily to complement prescribed textbooks used in China’s primary and secondary school curriculum covering subjects, such as English, Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, political science, and history. The company offers electronic learning products, including handheld digital learning devices, handheld kids learning devices, and e-dictionaries. It delivers its content primarily through handheld digital learning devices into which its content is embedded or subsequently downloaded at approximately 8,500 points of sale, approximately 2,000 download centers, or through its Website noahedu.com. As of June 30, 2009, the company had developed a collection of approximately 47,500 courseware titles, each corresponding to a chapter of a printed textbook or a topic covered by a textbook. Noah Education Holdings Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China.

Reagan Outdoor Advertising is at home in the wide open spaces and on busy city streets. Reagan Outdoor Advertising leases billboard advertising space in about 20 markets in Utah, including Salt Lake City; several markets in Nevada, including Las Vegas; and in Austin, Texas. In addition to providing billboards of various sizes, Reagan Outdoor Advertising offers creative services to advertisers through its in-house art department. Reagan Outdoor Advertising has conducted billboard advertising work for such clients as CareSource, Maxwell Carpets and Floor Coverings, and Manwill Plumbing & Heating.

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