Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) serves the Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Minnesota) community with national and local public television programming. TPT produces original programming, such as the Emmy-winning documentary The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's; DragonflyTV, a science show for kids; and popular public affairs program Almanac. TPT operates a half dozen digital stations, in addition to analog channels tpt2 and tpt17. Revenues come from viewer support, PBS and CPB grants, as well as gifts from corporations and foundations.

Direct Alliance, which was formed in 1993, is a subsidiary of global outsourcing powerhouse TeleTech Holdings. Direct Alliance provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services for companies in industries such as consumer electronics, financial services, health care, retail, and technology. It specializes in sales, marketing, and fulfillment operations, including direct marketing and telesales, order management, and payment processing. Direct Alliance Corporation also provides Internet sales support and analytics services.

RBI US is a unit of global trade publisher Reed Business Information, itself a subsidiary of information provider Reed Elsevier Group plc. All work and no play could be the motto for Reed Business Information-US (RBI US), one of the nation's largest business-to-business publishers. The company operates about 70 trade publications and related Web sites covering the media, manufacturing, construction, electronics, and furnishings industries. Magazine titles include Hollywood trade paper Variety, as well as Marketcast, Reed Construction Data, and Buyerzone. The business unit also provides custom publishing, directories publishing, and direct marketing lists, and owns lead generation business BuyerZone.com.

Journal Sentinel tries to bring the city's citizens good journalism. The subsidiary of Journal Communications operates Milwaukee's primary newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which was born in 1995 through the merger of two local papers with roots in the nineteenth century. Boasting a circulation of about 185,000, the paper offers local and regional news coverage, along with special features and events coverage. Journal Sentinel also operates the JS Online news Web site, which features blogs, videos, and a subscription service providing coverage of the Green Bay Packers football team.

Newsweek gets its readers up to speed on national and world events. The company publishes Newsweek, a US newsweekly with a worldwide circulation of more than 4 million readers. The magazine has more than 15 news bureaus worldwide and publishes about ten international editions that reach some 190 countries. Newsweek editors and contributors include Jonathan Alter, Anna Quindlen, and George Will. The firm was founded by Thomas Martyn, a former editor at Time magazine who wanted to strike up some competition. He published the first issue, then called News-Week, in 1933. The Washington Post bought the magazine in 1961; it sold Newsweek to stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman in 2010.

arvato loyalty services company, formerly Ion Group, offers a number of advertising and marketing services, including direct marketing, campaign management, sales promotions, call centers, and data management. It also conducts customer surveys, does hidden camera interviews, and performs "mystery shopper" services by posing as a customer to gauge the level of service offered. arvato's clients include Alfa Romeo (owned by Fiat), Harley-Davidson, and Bryant Homes. arvato loyalty services is part of arvato AG, which is owned by international media giant Bertelsmann.

Sitel Worldwide Corporation provides business process outsourcing services. Sitel company offers back office processing, claims processing, catalog support, on-site inventory management, ticket processing, and sales field support services. Additionally, it provides database cleaning and updating, lead generation, subscription renewal, receivables management, credit card activation, property recovery, and pre litigation services. Sitel company also offers customer care and technical support services. It caters to financial services, utility, automotive, telecommunications, media, retail, government, and healthcare sectors.

Panini S.p.A. (known as the Panini Group) is a major publisher and distributor of trading cards, stickers, collectibles, comic books, anime, manga, children's magazines, activity books, and animated DVDs in Europe and Latin America. The group publishes more than 4,000 titles under its Panini Comics imprint and distributes about 1 billion packs of stickers and DVDs every year through PAN Distribuzione. It offers web content through Panini Digital and Panini Interactive and publishes Japanese-style comics through Planet Manga. The group entered the US market in 2009 when it purchased Donruss Playoff and renamed it Panini America.

During the past five years, the Yari Film Group has firmly anchored itself as one of the premiere homes for independent films. We take pride in collaborating with filmmakers and bringing forth their creative visions. From seasoned veterans -- such as Lasse Hallström, Paul Haggis, and Sidney Lumet -- to first time writers and directors, we continue to seek out innovative stories and storytellers. In addition to our success financing and producing quality films, the Yari Film Group has a dedicated domestic distribution affiliate, Yari Film Group Releasing. Yari Film Group strives to create entertaining films, while never sacrificing quality and the unique visions of our filmmakers. In such a short period, our critical and commercial achievements are proof of our success and staying power... and we look forward to an even brighter future.

The Frantz Group provides direct marketing services aimed at the needs of the business-to-business sector. It helps clients increase sales by providing strategic and tactical marketing services such as market segmentation, messaging, and sales tracking. Other services include database design, customer relationship management software, and such call center services as lead qualification and telesales. Owning offices in Wisconsin and Florida, the Frantz Group serves clients in the finance and insurance, retail, health care, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, professional services, and public sectors.

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