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ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY DIRECTORIES
AV Market Place LB1043 .A8171 (Butler Stacks) Lists 7,500 audiovisual companies, which are indexed by 1,250 specific product classifications and within each classification, by state. Includes Multimedia Program Producers
Billboard International Buyers Guide ML18 .B5 (Business Reference) Worldwide directory of record labels, music and audio book publishers, recording industry service companies, distributors and manufacturing plants.
Communications Industry Forecast HE202.5 V471(Business Reference) Contains five-year historical and five-year forward forecasting by segment of advertiser, specialty media & marketing, consumer and institutional end-user spending patterns. Provides demographic, economic, technological, institutional, behavioral and competitive served-market data.
International Motion Picture Almanac PN1993.3 .I5 (Butler Reference) This publication supplies industry statistics such as theater grosses and admissions, attendance demographics, marketing costs, employment and wages, and number of releases. Directory information of film producers and distributors, theater circuits, buying and booking services, equipment suppliers, guilds, and unions, along with an alphabetical list of films produced from 1980 complete the volume.
International Television and Video Almanac HE8698 .I551 (Business Reference) Provides lists of US and international television and cable networks, production companies, distributors, cable system operators, video retailers, TV stations and industry associations. Industry statistics, such as Nielsen Ratings of the top programs, television usage, advertising expenditures, and television set sales, are detailed.
Radio Dimensions HF6146.R3 R33(Business Reference)
Television and Cable Factbook TK6540 .T451 (Business Reference) One volume is a directory of every commercial TV station in the US and Canada, including a list of key personnel. A second volume covers cable stations. The third volume is a directory of TV and cable services, such as associations, consultants and public relations firms.
TV Dimensions HE8700.8 T917(Business Reference)
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GENERAL DIRECTORIES
Associations Unlimited A guide to over 23,000 national and international organizations in all subject areas. Internet accessible.
D&B Million Dollar Database Provides information on approximately 1,600,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses, including company and industry information such as SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies, annual US sales dollar equivalent.
Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles Brief information on 15,000 companies, including information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. In-depth company information on over 5,000 companies, including an overview, history, key people, products, subsidiaries, and competitors.
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Journals and Magazines
Billboard Print: Slot B-784 (Current Serials)
Broadcasting & Cable Print: Slot B-857 (Current Serials)
Emedia
Hollywood Reporter
Multichannel News
Variety Print: Slot V-100 (Current Serials)
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DATABASES
Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important journals. BSP also includes country reports from EIU and Global Insight as well as company reports from Datamonitor.
Factiva Factiva is an excellent resource for finding company and industry information. Factiva contains a database of nearly 10,000 publications, including: academic and trade publications, industry newsletters, international and regional newspapers, business magazines, and business newswires.
LexisNexis Academic Includes many industry and trade publications, company financials and much more.
ProQuest Direct An interdisciplinary database covering more than professional, scholarly, trade and general interest periodicals, including full-text for over a thousand titles and indexing/abstracts for the others.
Reuters Research On Demand Reuters Research on Demand contains full-text investment research reports supplied by leading investment banks, brokerage firms, and third party providers.
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