W22nd Century Media was a media company based in the suburbs of Chicago. The company was founded in 2005 and at one time published 14 weekly community newspapers. The publications had roughly 160,000 subscribers. It ceased operations April 7, 2020, citing "the economic impact of the coronavirus on all small businesses, from which we earn a large majority of our advertising base."
W365 is a media company in Iceland. At its peak, it was a mass media company and operated several TV and radio stations, and one newspaper. 365 also rebroadcast foreign television channels over its digital TV system. It started broadcasting Bylgjan in 1986, Stöð 2 started in 1986, Stöð 2 Sport (Sýn) in 1995, Bíórásin in 1998, and it started publishing Fréttablaðið in 2001. In 2017, it sold most of its assets to Fjarskipti ehf, the parent company of Vodafone Iceland.
WAnanda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922. Ananda Publishers is a division of ABP Group.
WAomori Broadcasting Corporation is a television and radio broadcaster in Aomori, Japan. It is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JRN), National Radio Network (NRN), Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS).
WAOR, Ltd. is a Japanese based manufacturer of radio equipment, including transceivers, scanners, antennas and frequency monitors.
WThe Apple Multimedia Lab was a pioneering electronic media research group operated by Apple Computer. It was founded in 1987 by cognitive psychologist Kristina Hooper Woolsey and educational psychologist Sueann Ambron.
WThe Baltic News Service (BNS) is the largest news agency operating in the Baltic states. Founded in April, 1990, by a group of students, it sought to inform foreign correspondents in Moscow of developments in the Baltic states' struggles for independence from the Soviet Union. Within a few months, it had been recognized by numerous Western media sources.
WThe Caribbean New Media Group was a state-run media company in Trinidad and Tobago, formed in 2005. It was the successor company to Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT). In August 2017, Minister Maxie Cuffie announced that CNMG would be wound up and replaced by TTT Limited. The new TTT Limited was launched by Prime Minister Keith Rowley, in August 2018, with the rebranded TTT television station replacing C TV. CNMG's three radio stations — Sweet 100.1, Next 99.1 and Talk City 91.1 — were retained under TTT Limited.
Wcenter.tv is a German regional TV channel, with customised programmes for Aachen, Cologne and other German cities as well as Singapore. It broadcasts 24/7, providing with information, service, entertainment, culture and sport-oriented formats, including short advertisement breaks to lend an opportunity for smaller local companies to promote themselves. center.tv can be received via a digital or analogue cable connection, and via internet livestream.
WThe Central News Agency (CNA) is the state-owned news agency in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
WCompany Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. It was set up in 1998 by Charles Pattinson and George Faber, colleagues at BBC Films. Their first film was Morvern Callar, which was credited as a co-production with BBC Films as they had begun developing it while still employed there. In 2003 Company Pictures became part of All3Media. The founders, Pattinson and Faber, left in 2012 to set up another independent production company, and John Yorke became managing director until 2015. He was succeeded by Michele Buck, former joint managing director of Mammoth Screen.
WCorymore Productions is an American television production company that was created and founded in 1987 by producer Peter Shaw, the late husband of actress Angela Lansbury.
WDeseret Digital Media, Inc. (DDM) is a subsidiary company of Deseret Management Corporation. Former CEO, Clark Gilbert, was named president of BYU-Idaho in early 2015. Chris Lee is the president of the company.
WDetroit Media Partnership, L.P. manages the business operations - including production, advertising and circulation - for the two leading Detroit newspapers: The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Detroit Media Partnership also handles Detroit-area circulation for The New York Times, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, and Financial Times.
WFairchild Recording Equipment Corporation was founded by Sherman Fairchild in 1931 in Whitestone, NY. Fairchild started the company to augment his interests in photography and image projection.
WFarpoint Films is a television and film production company founded in 2000 by John Barnard and Kyle Bornais and based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They have produced more than 500 hours of national and international award winning television and film projects. Recent productions include I Hostage, Alive, My Misdiagnosis, Bachman, Sorry For Your Loss, Kid Diners, Menorca, Escape Or Die!, The Illegal Eater, and The Medicine Line.
WThe Fusion Media Group is a division of Univision Communications. The company was launched in April 2016 after Univision bought out Disney's stake in Fusion through the Fusion Media Network joint venture between Univision & Disney-ABC. While Univision is focused on serving Hispanic America in Spanish, FMG is the company's multi-platform, English language division targeting young adults.
WHat Trick Productions is an independent British production company that produces television and radio programmes, mainly specialising in comedy, based in London.
WHiltz Squared Media Group Inc. is a television and film production and distribution company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
WKazinform is a Kazakh international news agency and one of largest media in Kazakhstan. It is based in Astana. The news agency mainly focuses on national and Eurasian news.
WMarcus Cable Company was an American cable television provider headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and founded by Jeffrey A. Marcus and the Milwaukee-based Marcus Corporation. It was the nation's largest closely held cable-television company and the ninth largest over all, with 1.1 million customers in 18 states, with its principal markets in Wisconsin, southern California, Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee, and Fort Worth, Texas. In 1995, Marcus acquired the cable assets of Sammons Communications, which was also based in Dallas, for $1 billion. In April 1998, entrepreneur Paul Allen purchased Marcus Cable for $2.775 billion through his investment arm Vulcan Ventures. In February 1999, Marcus Cable was merged with Vulcan's Charter Communications.
WMediaproducción, S.L.U., better known as Mediapro, is a multimedia communications group in Spain. Founded in 1994 in Barcelona, the company is involved in movie and television production, as well as media.
WEndemol Shine Nordics is a Nordic media company specializing in film and television production. In 2009, it was bought by the British company Shine Group for £60 million, which was in turn sold to the American News Corporation.
WMidWest Radio is a small community local Irish radio station based in County Mayo, Ireland. Officially opened in 1989, its current studios are located on Clare Street, Ballyhaunis. The JNLR/MRBI radio listenership survey released in February 2020 shows that Midwest Radio has the second highest listenership rates in the country and the highest of any local radio station, with a market-share of 56% of its catchment area.
WMoby Media Group is the largest media company in Afghanistan. Moby Group is privately owned, with headquarters in Kabul and 15 bureaus throughout Afghanistan. The company also has an office in Dubai, where regional business is conducted.
WNap Televízió is a privately-owned producer of television programmes. It makes daily television programmes for Hungarian Television, called Nap-kelte (Sunrise). The company's first programmes appeared on-screen in 1989, and have run continuously ever since. Between 1999 and 2002 its programmes were broadcast by the privately owned TV3. After its bankruptcy they moved to ATV.
WNikkei, Inc. is a Japanese holding company with newspaper businesses as its core. Its first publication was in 1876 with the publication of The Chugai Bukka Shimpo . In 1946, the company name was changed to Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, while the newspaper changed its title to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, both of which were later shortened to Nikkei.
WReshet is an Israeli television broadcasting and production company. It was one of the two concessionaires running the Israeli commercial television channel, Channel 2 from 1993 to 2017, and is running channel 13 alongside RGE media group at the present. Reshet is considered one of the most successful television channels in Israel.
WSilver Pictures is an American film production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver during 1980. The Silver Pictures logo, also called The Chip, is modeled on a block pattern that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the exteriors of the Storer House in Los Angeles. Silver has been a lifelong aficionado of Frank Lloyd Wright and has worked many of Wright's works within both Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. All pre-Universal Pictures deal films are owned and distributed by Warner Bros.
WSTRIX Television is a Swedish television production company that was founded in 1988 and today it serves as one of the largest production companies for the Nordic countries. Strix's head office is in Stockholm, Sweden. They also have offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Prague.
WSýn is a mass media company in Iceland, which operates Vodafone Iceland, Vísir.is and several TV and radio stations, including Stöð 2, Stöð 2 Sport, Bylgjan and FM 957. It also rebroadcasts foreign television channels over its digital TV system. In 2017, it bought most of 365 Miðlar assets.
WTelegraph Media Group Limited is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group on 30 July 2004, after months of intense bidding and lawsuits, from Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian/American businessman Conrad Black.
WTT News Agency is a Swedish news agency, the largest in Scandinavia, owned jointly by the country's newspapers and the media groups behind them. TT's services are used as the exclusive source of national news by many local media outlets.
WTuran Information Agency is a news agency based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Founded in Azerbaijan SSR in 1990 by a group of journalists who refused to work in the state media. The Agency prepares analytical articles and news materials in three languages: Azerbaijani, English, and Russian. Topics include politics, economy, finance, communication, religion, culture, and sport.
WVisual China Group (VCG) is a Chinese photo and media agency. Established in 2000, it is a supplier of stock multimedia content to the commercial media industry. VCG is currently the largest stock image and media footage provider in China and third largest in the world.