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-Broadcast-
Offices: Northfield, Minnesota
The Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association (BCFM) provides education,
networking, information, and signature products to meet the diverse needs
of financial and business professionals in the broadcast, cable, and electronic
media industries throughout the US and Canada. BCFM’s Broadcast Cable Credit
Association (BCCA) subsidiary provides revenue management services.
Offices: Washington, DC
The Broadcast Education Association is the professional association for
professors, industry professionals and graduate students who are interested
in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises.
There are currently more than 1,400 individual and institutional members.
In 2005, BEA celebrates its 50th anniversary. The BEA has been responding
to broadcast education since 1955 and they celebrate this major milestone
in their history.-Canadian-
Offices: Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters is a professional industry association
that represents the vast majority of Canadian programming services—including
private television and radio stations and networks, and specialty, pay and
pay-per-view television services. Established in 1926, the CAB has over
600 members. They are the voice and choice of Canadians. Private radio and
television services enjoy by far the largest share of the market, and Canadian
programming broadcast by those services attracts the predominant share of
the total audience for Canadian content.
Offices: Arlington, Virginia
The Community Broadcasters Association is a national organization dedicated
to enhancing and representing the Diversity, Vitality, Localism, Service
to their Communities and Economic Survival of All Class A & Low Power Television
Stations in the United States. The CBA represents the interests of over
600 Class A and over 2,200 LPTV's in the United States.
Offices: Washington, DC
CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the
steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It
helps support the operations of more than 1000 locally owned and operated
public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single
source of funding for research, technology, and program development for
public radio, television, and related on-line services.
Offices: Nashville, Tennessee
Country radio broadcasters are brought from around the world together with
the country music industry for the purpose of assuring the continued vitality
of the country radio format. They do this by idea sharing and education
through the Country Radio Seminar and regional seminars on the topics of
general management, sales, and programming. They also promote the growth
of country radio by granting scholarships to people seeking degrees in broadcasting.
-Digital-
Offices: Los Angeles, California
DEC serves to advocate and promote the many benefits associated with DVD
while providing updated information regarding the format to both the media
and the retail trade. As an industry funded, nonprofit organization, the
DEG also offers a forum for member companies to engage in ongoing discussions
concerning various issues and opportunities which relate to other new digital
technologies that may emerge in the future. The DEG serves as a single voice
for the consumer home video and audio segments of the home entertainment
marketplace and a clearinghouse for information about DVD-Video, DVD-Audio
and future digital entertainment formats.
Offices: Washington, DC
DiMA is an alliance of companies that develop and deploy technologies to
perform, promote and market music and video content on the World Wide Web
and through other digital networks. Through public education and legislative
activity, DiMA encourages pro-technology pro-consumer public policies that
enable companies to deliver content to consumers in new, exciting (and commercially
compelling) ways. DiMA was formed in June 1998 by seven leading web-centric
companies that agreed on a common principle - consumers' desire to enjoy
digital entertainment should not be hampered by outdated laws, regulations
and business models.
Offices: Chicago, Illinois
The Digital Video Professionals Association is a community of new media
professionals that provides membership to all those who are involved as
visual communicators using digital media. Members of the association have
joined together to share their resources and expertise with each other and
to further the advancement of the DV industry. The DVPA is the largest organization
devoted exclusively to meeting the needs of those who use DV technology.-Fiber-
Offices: Washington, DC
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council is a non-profit organization established
in 2001 to educate the public on the opportunities and benefits of FTTH
solutions. FTTH Council members represent all areas of broadband industries,
including telecommunications, computing, networking, system integration,
engineering, and content-provider companies, as well as traditional telecommunications
service providers, utilities and municipalities.
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