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Baltic News Service
The Baltic News Service (BNS) is the largest news agency operating in the Baltic states. Founded in April, 1990, by a group of students (the founding CEO was Allan Martinson), 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. Today, BNS is a holding company for separate organizations in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. BNS disseminates news in Russian and English (as well as the domestic languages of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian) via the internet and by other means. Subscribers include media, financial, industrial, and government institutions in the Baltic states. BNS also collaborates with Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and Interfax. In 2003, the BNS publishing company in Estonia, BNS Kirjastus, bought the bankrupt news agency ETA (Eesti Teadeteagentuur). BNS was wholly owned by the Finnish media gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born Paul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada in 2008 and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters. History 19th century Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen's Reuters House. Reuter moved to London in 1851 and established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange. Headquartered in London, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ELTA , a Bosnian cable television company based in Doboj
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ELTA may mean one of the following: Broadcasting * ELTA 1 HD, the first commercial HD cable television channel in Bosnia and Herzegovina * ELTA 2, a commercial music television channel in Bosnia and Herzegovina * , a television channel in Taiwan Other * Elta Systems Ltd, an Israeli provider of defense products and services specializing in C4ISTAR products * Elta (river), a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany * ELTA, a Lithuanian news agency * Hellenic Post (abbreviated ΕΛΤΑ, ELTA), state-owned provider of postal services in Greece * Elta-Kabel Elta Kabel (full legal name: ELTA-KABEL d.o.o.) is the biggest cable television and broadband Internet and mobile service provider in Republika Srpska entity and one of CATV operators in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Elta Kabel services are available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Competition Council (Latvia)
A competition regulator is the institution that oversees the functioning of the markets. And the Law in which it takes cognizance of situations having any type of impediments and distortions on the markets and correct them is the competition law (also known as antitrust law). In general it is a government agency, typically a statutory authority, sometimes called an economic regulator, that regulates and enforces competition laws and may sometimes also enforce consumer protection laws. In addition to such agencies, there is often another body responsible for formulating competition policy. Many nations implement competition laws, and there is general agreement on acceptable standards of behaviour. The degree to which countries enforce their competition policy varies substantially. Competition regulators may also regulate certain aspects of mergers and acquisitions and business alliances and regulate or prohibit cartels and monopolies. Other government agencies may have respons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LETA
LETA is the main Latvian news agency. Its headquarters are in Riga. It is owned by Estonian entrepreneur Margus Linnamäe through his company Postimees Group. History It was founded as ''Latopress'' in 1919, soon after Latvia became independent; the name was changed to ''LTA'' the next year when the wire service was subordinated to the Latvian Telegraph Agency. The name ''LETA'' was only used occasionally during the interwar perio In 1940, when Latvia was Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, occupied by the Soviet Union, it became a subordinate agency of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), a status it would keep until Latvia regained independence in 1991. During the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany The military occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany was completed on July 10, 1941 by Germany's armed forces. Initially, the territory of Latvia was under the military administration of Army Group North, but on 25 July 1941, Latvia was i ..., LETA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margus Linnamäe
Margus may refer to: * Margus (name), Estonian given name *Margus (city) Margus was an ancient Roman city situated at locality of present-day Požarevac (Serbia). Latin name ''Margus'' was in use after the Roman conquest in the first century BC. Before the Roman conquest, the area was inhabited by Thracians, Dacians an ..., a former Roman city at the locality of modern Požarevac, Serbia *Margus River, the Roman name of Great Morava, see Battle of the Margus {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postimees Group
AS Postimees Grupp (also known in English as Postimees Group), formerly known as AS Postimees and AS Eesti Meedia, is an Estonian media holding company headquartered in Tallinn. The company is currently owned by MM Group (an investment company in which entrepreneur Margus Linnamäe has most shares), having acquired the half of the company from Norwegian company Schibsted in 2013 and bought the remaining half in 2015. The group is one of the largest media group in the Baltics. Among the Group's activities are creation of print and online media, production of television and radio, e-commerce. History The company was established as AS Postimees in 1991 (the year Estonia restored its independence from Soviet occupation, and daily newspaper ''Edasi'' restored its pre-Soviet title ''Postimees''). In 1998, the company was renamed AS Eesti Meedia, and ''Postimees'' newspaper was spun off as a new subsidiary of Eesti Meedia, the new AS Postimees. The same year, the company was acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Plus
Sky Plus is a commercial radio station in Estonia. The radio station was launched in 1997 and is owned by . Its sister station in Russian language is SKY Radio
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Alma Media
Alma Media Oyj is a Finnish media and digital service business company. Its best known products are ''Iltalehti'', '' Kauppalehti'', ''Talouselämä'', and . In addition to news services, the company's products provide information related to lifestyle, career and business development. The services of Alma Media have expanded from Finland to the Nordic countries, the Baltics and Central Europe. Alma Media employs approximately 1,800 people. The group's revenue in 2019 totalled approximately EUR 250.2 million. Business segments Alma Media's business units are Alma Markets, and Alma Consumer. Alma Markets Alma Markets segment includes several online services. The services are related to sectors such as housing (, Vuokraovi.com, NettiKoti, Kivi and Urakkamaailma), recruitment (, Jobs.cz, Prace.cz, CV Online, Profesia.sk, MojPosao.net, and Monster.cz) as well as mobility (Autotalli.com and ). Alma Talent publishes trade and financial magazines and newspapers, as well as a varie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Group
A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet. According to the magazine ''The Nation'', "Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets around the world." Terminology A conglomerate is a large company composed of a number of smaller companies (subsidiaries) engaged in generally unrelated businesses. Some media conglomerates use their access in multiple areas to share various kinds of content such as: news, video and music, between users. The media sector's tendency to consolidate has caused formerly diversified companies to appear less diverse to prospective investors in comparison with similar companies that are traded publicly and privately. Therefore, the term media group may also be applied, however, it has not yet replaced the more traditional term. Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
