This list aims to provide a list of those recently active investors in the Broadcasting space.
Purpose of this list: Finding and meeting VC’s and investors is no easy task for any founder no matter how well connected they might be. This list is aimed to provide a starting point highlighting some of the most recently active investors.
Great list… now what: If you’re a founder looking to pitch your startup you first need to create a short list of investors you want to pitch to. This list could provide part of that. Pick a few companies in this list, see their past investments, which countries they invest in and craft a personal email or Linkedin message to them if you think they would be interested.
I sent a load of emails, but didn’t get any responses: Welcome to the startup world… But in all seriousness some VC’s will get back to you with feedback if you’re lucky, but most are simply too busy to deal with all the messages they get.
Do not get discouraged, send a follow up email asking for feedback and work on your pitching. Rejection is not a reflection on your company, just how you pitched it. There is countless stories of people getting rejected 100 times before finally getting funding. See the Qwil story.
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IBB Ventures
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IBB Ventures invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries.
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Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Number of Employees: 11-50
Fonds de solidarité FTQ
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Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm.
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Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Kevin Lin
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Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the …
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
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Sky UK
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Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
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Location: Isleworth, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 10001
Cox Enterprises
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Cox Enterprises is a communications, media and automotive services company.
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Founders: James Cox
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Bertelsmann
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Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation that operates in about 50 countries around the world.
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Founders: Carl Bertelsmann
Location: Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Number of Employees: 10001
NBCUniversal
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NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
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Founders: Josh Grotstein, Paul Lee
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Bilibili
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Bilibili is an online entertainment platform featuring videos, live broadcasting and mobile games.
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Founders: Yi Xu
Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Müller Medien
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Müller Medien is a family owned Germany publisher with interest in directories, print, broadcasting and online.
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Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Comcast
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Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company.
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Discovery
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Discovery is a global mass media and entertainment company.
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Founders: John S. Hendricks
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
ABRY Partners
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ABRY Partners is an equity firm focused on investments in media.
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Founders: Andrew Banks, Royce Yudkoff
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 51-100
Modern Times Group (MTG)
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Modern Times Group (MTG) is an international entertainment group.
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Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
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ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE is a mass media company operating television, radio stations and print businesses.
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Location: Unterföhring, Bayern, Germany
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Company K Partners
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Company K Partners is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in culture content, electronic components and computers
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Location: Ilsangu, Seoul-t’ukpyolsi, South Korea
Number of Employees: 11-50
The Faktory
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Private tech startup accelerator, incubator and venture capital seed fund.
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Founders: Pierre L’Hoest
Location: Seraing, Liege, Belgium
Number of Employees: 11-50
ABC Dream Ventures
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Management and its ancillary business of corporate venture capital.
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Founders: Akihiro Ueda
Location: Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Number of Employees: 44105
The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is a source of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, and more.
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Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Tom Chapman
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Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM. Tom has an investment portfolio that spans mul…
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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Nagoya TV Ventures
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Nagoya TV Ventures invests in everything from seed to later stage in companies focused on media, entertainment, video, and internet.
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Location: Nakaku, Miyagi, Japan
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JOYY
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JOYY is a video-based social media platform offering online entertainment, live gaming broadcasting and real-time communications.
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Founders: Xueling Li
Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
A+E Networks
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A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
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Founders: Shane Smith
Location: New York, New York, United States
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Seven West Media
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Seven West Media is a multi-platform media business that consists of TV and radio stations, magazines, internet platforms and newspapers.
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Founders: Kerry Stokes
Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
iHeartMedia
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iHeartMedia is a mass media company that provides a range of multiplatform advertising and marketing opportunities.
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Founders: Rad Weaver
Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Channel 4
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Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.
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Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
The Skoll Foundation
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The Skoll Foundation invests in social entrepreneurs through its flagship award program, the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship .
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Founders: Jeffrey S. Skoll
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
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Frank Thelen
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Frank Thelen is a European serial founder and seed investor based in Bonn, Germany. Since 1994 he is founding technology and design driven …
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Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Great Chiliocosm Capital
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Great Chiliocosm Capital is an investment Firm.
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Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
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Live Nation Entertainment
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Live Nation Entertainment is the live entertainment and eCommerce company.
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Founders: Robert FX Sillerman
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Number of Employees: 10001
Mediaset
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Communications and broadcasting company.
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Founders: Pier Silvio Berlusconi
Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Atresmedia
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Atresmedia is a communication group that operates in television, digital, and multimedia development sectors.
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Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Darwin Venture Management
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HQ in Taiwan, Darwin Venture Management is a boutique investment firm dedicated to emerging growth companies in TW & Silicon Valley.
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Founders: Simon Fang, Yao-Ting Wang
Location: Taipei, T’ai-pei, Taiwan
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Nippon Broadcasting System
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Nippon Broadcasting System is a broadcasting and media production company.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Lakson Investments Venture Capital
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LIVC invests in opportunities where technology can be leveraged to enable, enhance and disrupt existing business models or create new ones.
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Founders: Babar Ali Lakhani, Faisal Aftab
Location: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Number of Employees: 44105
Cisneros Group
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Cisneros is a global media and entertainment leader focused on the vibrant and fast-growing Hispanic market.
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Location: Cumaná, NA – Venezuela, Venezuela
Number of Employees: 10001
Andrew Viterbi
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Communications pioneer Andrew J.Viterbi — who in 1962 earned one of the first doctorates in electrical engineering granted at the University…
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Location: Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy
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Intelsat
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Intelsat operates a globalized network that delivers high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services anywhere in the world.
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Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
HT Media
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HT Media is an Indian mass media company.
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Founders: Shobhana Bhartia
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Number of Employees: 10001
Bauer Media
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Bauer Media is a publisher of a variety of media, with a focus on magazines.
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Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Number of Employees: 11-50
ITV
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ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 501-1000
ProSieben
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ProSieben is a commercial television station in Germany.
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Founders: Gerhard Ackermans, Thomas Kirch
Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Intermedia Venture
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Intermedia is active in the areas of Recruiting, SaaS, LegalTech, B2B Media, and Specialized Trade
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Location: Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Number of Employees: 44105
Bert Ellis
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Bert Ellis is the President and Founder of Titan Broadcast. Previously he founded and held the CEO position at iXL, which was acquired by Ra…
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Tokyo Broadcasting System
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Tokyo Broadcasting System is a stockholding company in Tokyo, Japan.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Gannett Foundation
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The Gannett Foundation funds projects in a variety of areas in communities in which Gannett has a local daily newspaper or broadcast.
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Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States
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Stingray
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Stingray Business is a leader in the field of media solutions, including commercial music, digital innovations & in-store audio advertising.
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Founders: Eric Boyko
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Number of Employees: 251-500
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is a diversified television broadcasting company in the U.S.
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Founders: Julian Sinclair Smith, Julian Sinclair Smith
Location: Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Creative Artists Agency
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Leading entertainment and sports agency
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Founders: Michael Ovitz, Richard Lovett
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Timewise Investment
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TIMEWISE INVESTMENT, formerly known as CJ Venture Investment, is a principal investment firm
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Location: Seoul, Seoul-t’ukpyolsi, South Korea
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Slaight Communications
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Slaight Communications, Inc. manages the internet radio portal Iceberg radio.
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alibaba Pictures
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Alibaba Pictures Group Limited is an integrated cultural corporation with interest on TV, film production, print media, and mobile media.
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Location: Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Inke
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Inke is a Chinese mobile app allowing users to watch live video broadcast on smartphones.
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Founders: Guangling Hou, Wenwen Chen, Yousheng Feng
Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Number of Employees: 51-100
Oprah Winfrey
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Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her multi award willing talk show,…
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Location: Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States
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American Tower
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American Tower offers its users with a variety of wireless infrastructure solutions around the world.
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Founders: Jim Eisenstein
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
Guardian Media Group
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GMG is a leading multimedia business. The diverse portfolio includes national and regional newspapers, websites, radio stations, magazines
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Founders: C. P. Scott
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Shaw Communications
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Shaw Communications Inc. is a diversified communications company, provides broadband cable television, Internet, digital phone.
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Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Number of Employees: 10001
Zee Entertainment Enterprises
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Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. is the second-largest Indian media and entertainment company based in Mumbai
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Founders: Subhash Chandra
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
News Corp Australia
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News Corp Australia is the country’s leading media company and a subsidiary of News Corp, a global leader in media and information services.
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Founders: James Edward Davidson
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Number of Employees: 5001-10000
TV Asahi
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TV Asahi Holdings Corporation is a Japanese major television network. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
QUICK Corporation
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QUICK Corporation is Japan’s oldest and largest market data company and offers financial information and news services through Internet.
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Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Tsinghua Unigroup
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Tsinghua Unigroup develops, and markets wireless systems-on-chip and radio-frequency semiconductors for cellular and broadcast applications.
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Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
Number of Employees: 10001
Penske Media Corporation
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PMC is a Leading Digital Media and Publishing Company
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Founders: Jay Penske, Michael Ausiello
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Vivendi
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Vivendi is a mass media and telecommunications company providing music, television, film, publishing, telecommunications and more.
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Founders: Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Number of Employees: 10001
Beasley Broadcast Group
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Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. has proudly served listeners and advertisers in large and small communities across America since 1961.
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Founders: George G. Beasley
Location: Naples, Florida, United States
Number of Employees: 501-1000
Star India Pvt Ltd
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Star TV is an online extension of the television channel and its media.
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
Mediahuis
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Mediahuis is a Belgian newspaper publishing and broadcast media company.
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Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
Number of Employees: 1001-5000
ABS-CBN GLOBAL LTD.
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ABS-CBN Global is a major commercial television network in the Philippines.
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Founders: Antonio Quirino, Eugenio López, Fernando López, James Lindenberg
Location: Quezon City, Quezon City, Philippines
Number of Employees: 501-1000
James Murdoch
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James Murdoch is CEO of 21st Century Fox, the world’s premier portfolio of cable, broadcast, film, pay-TV and satellite assets. Murdoch has…
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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Capstar Partners
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Capstar Partners participates in small and middle-market buyouts, real estate development, and public investing.
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Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Number of Employees: 11-50