Astral is a leading Canadian media company, reaching people through a combination of highly targeted media properties in television, radio, out-of-home advertising, and digital media.The Company is the country’s largest broadcaster of English- and French-language pay and specialty television services and operates, on its own or with partners, 21 television services, including The Movie Network/HBO Canada, Super Écran, Playhouse Disney, Family, Canal Vie, Canal D, VRAK.TV and TELETOON. Astral is also Canada’s largest radio broadcaster with 83 licensed radio stations in 8 provinces, including NRJ, RockDétente, Virgin Radio, EZ Rock and The Bear.Astral Out-of-Home is one of Canada’s most dynamic and innovative out-of-home advertising companies with nearly 8000 faces located in the largest markets in Québec, Ontario and British Columbia. The Company also operates over 100 websites with a high level of interactivity and a variety of different products and services online. Astral employs over 2,800 people at its facilities in Montréal, Toronto, and a number of cities throughout Canada.The shares of Astral Media Inc. trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols ACM.A/ACM.B.

Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help students learn at their own pace, in their own way. We have the most widely trusted and respected programs in educational and professional publishing, and offer the most comprehensive range of educational programs, in all subjects, for every age and level of student, from preK-12 through higher education and on into professional life. Our unparalleled businesses and brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

Pattison Outdoor Advertising company peppers cities all across Canada with outdoor advertisements that include backlit posters, digital displays, wall murals, and large-scale superboards, as well as indoor advertisements in airports and malls. Its clients are some of the biggest names in their industries, from Apple to McDonald's. Pattison Outdoor offers those clients such services as demographics research, charting and mapping, creative development, and production; it also occasionally leases properties on which to build advertising structures. The firm is a division of The Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada's largest privately-held companies.

Farm Journal Media includes its 133-year-old flagship magazine, FARM JOURNAL, along with TOP PRODUCER, BEEF TODAY, DAIRY TODAY and IMPLEMENT & TRACTOR. Farm Journal TV includes the “AgDay” and “U.S. Farm Report” television programs. The company’s Internet sites include www.AgWeb.com and www.MyMachinery.com. Farm Journal Media also publishes the Pro Farmer family of newsletters, produces numerous live events, offers custom publishing services and provides extensive database services. Farm Journal Media corporate headquarters are located in Philadelphia, PA, where the company was founded in 1877. The Magazine and Database Strategies divisions also are headquartered there.

Nexstar Broadcasting Group is a leading television station operator with more than 50 stations serving 30 small and midsized markets in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest; Nexstar has duopolies (two or more stations) in about half its markets. Its portfolio includes more than a dozen affiliates each of the FOX and NBC networks, as well as stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. More than 15 of its TV stations are operated through local service agreements with Mission Broadcasting, which owns those broadcast licenses. Private investment firm ABRY Partners has majority control in the company.

If you look up Yellow Pages Income Fund, you'll find that it owns the Yellow Pages Group (YPG), Canada's largest publisher of more than 340 telephone directories. On the Internet, Yellow Pages Income Fund company hosts about 20 Web sites that get approximately 9 million unique visitors a month, making it the top online directory site in Canada. YPG's revenues are mainly derived from the sale of telephone directory advertisements to small and medium-sized businesses; altogether some 385,000 advertisers have a presence in the Yellow Pages. In addition, the company's Trader Corporation subsidiary produces publications and Web sites covering four product verticals: automotive, real estate, general merchandise, and employment.

Roissy Films is a French independent feature film and made-for-TV program distribution company. Its film catalog of some 500 titles includes movies from acclaimed art house directors such as Robert Bresson, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, and Wim Wenders. The company also co-produces and sells new films. In addition, Roissy Films has developed Lisa Vision software, which allows buyers to select titles based on a variety of search criteria. In 2008 Roissy was acquired by director Luc Besson's French production company EuropaCorp.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a movie-making monster. The producer of Godzilla is a unit of Sony Corporation of America, the US arm of Japanese electronics giant Sony. It operates Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which includes Columbia Pictures (big budget films); Screen Gems (midsized budget); Sony Pictures Classics (small budget); and marketing and acquisitions unit TriStar Pictures. Its film library contains more than 3,500 titles, including classics such as Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. Other holdings include operations devoted to TV (Sony Pictures Television), DVDs (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), digital production (Sony Digital Production), and online video (Crackle).

Red 7 Media is a privately-held business media company that publishes magazines and newsletters, as well as produces conferences and trade shows in the Event and Media industries. Red 7 Media company was founded in 2002 with the launch of Event Marketer Magazine. Since then, through launches and strategic acquisitions, the company has grown into a multi-publication media company with offices in Connecticut, New York, Maryland, and Kansas. We are proud to have been named the #1 fastest-growing periodicals company in the U.S. by INC Magazine in 2007, having grown 545% over a four-year period. Driving that growth is our team of passionate professionals who are dedicated to creating marketplaces where buyers and sellers connect, and to helping our customers achieve success. We facilitate these connections through a comprehensive network of magazines, websites, and live events; and we stimulate business opportunities for our customers via an array of custom marketing, lead-generation, and consulting services. Red 7 Media’s magazines reach more decision-makers in the Event and Media industries than any other business media company. We deliver a readership that no publisher in our categories can match. Our websites, newsletters and live events extend Red 7 Media’s category leadership across every media channel.

Freud Communications company provides public relations, crisis management, brand development, and event-planning services to such big name clients as PepsiCo International, Paramount, Prada, Time Warner, and Pizza Hut. In addition, its consultancy unit helps businesses to understand regulatory issues, define strategic objectives, and align themselves with the media channel or channels best suited to their needs. Freud Communications is a unit of global media conglomerate Publicis Groupe and has offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles.

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