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ABN has established a significant network of contacts and business relationships spanning the international broadcasting, production and programme distribution and development communities. These include:

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

www.iemmys.tv
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is the largest organization of global broadcasters, with members from nearly 70 countries and over 350 companies. Sixty percent of the Board of Directors come from countries based outside of the U.S, and represents the world's largest production, distribution and broadcast companies.

Sesame Workshop

www.sesameworkshop.org
Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organization making a meaningful difference in children’s lives around the world. Founded in 1968, the Workshop changed television forever with the legendary Sesame Street. Today, the Workshop continues to innovate on behalf of children by reaching out globally to meet local needs.

WGBH

www.wgbh.org
WGBH productions are seen and heard across the United States and Canada. They deliver content that informs, inspires, and entertains millions. WGBH produce more PBS prime-time and Web lineup than any other station including teaching tools for schools and home-schooling, IMAX films, plus services for people with hearing or vision impairments.

WNET

www.thirteen.org
Thirteen/WNET provides non-commercial, educational and inspiring public television by combining public television production, the Internet, pioneering educational projects, and concerned community outreach initiatives. Thirteen continually finds new ways for television to be a positive force in society.

WLIW 21

www.wliw.org
Since 1969, WLIW has remained firmly committed to the mission of public television, presenting programming and outreach projects that educate, enlighten and entertain as an innovative broadcast center and educational resource for the New York metropolitan area.

Faith & Values Media Inc.

www.faithandvaluesmedia.org
Faith & Value Media use television, the Internet and other media to promote the vitality of religious experience in everyday life and to give expression to religious diversity.

NextNext Entertainment

www.nextnextentertainment.com
NextNext is the producer of Chat the Planet, a television show and internet community that connects groups of young Americans (ages 15 to 25) with their peers around the world, via satellite, for frank, no-holds-barred discussions.

Gala Entertainment

www.galaentertainmentcorp.com
Over the course of 35 years Gala Entertainment has brought more than 1,000 quality feature films and television programs to audiences worldwide and introduced independent Hollywood films to emerging markets in Africa, Pacific Islands, and West Indies.

FIA World Rally Championship

www.wrc.com
The World Rally Championship (WRC) is one of the most demanding and challenging motor sports competitions on the planet.

ITV

www.itvplc.com
ITV plc is the leading UK media company, owning all of the regional Channel 3 licenses in England and Wales. ITV plc wholly owns three leading free-to-air digital channels: ITV2, ITV3 and the recently launched ITV4. Its production arm comprises the largest commercial television production company in the UK and one of Europe’s largest programme distributors.

Africast Global Media

www.africast.tv
Africast Global Media, Inc., and its subsidiaries, is a diversified entertainment and multi-media company that produces, acquires and distributes a variety of Africa-focused media content.

The Africa Channel

www.theafricachannel.com
The Africa Channel is a new US based television network showcasing some of the African continent's most outstanding English language television series that reflect the people of Africa, their incredible stories, their daily lives, their music and art, their successes, celebrations and challenges.

MTV

www.mtvbase.com
MTV: Music Television, the first 24-hour video music network, is today the world's most widely distributed television network. On 22 February 2005 MTV launched its 100th channel - MTV base, a pan-African music TV channel serving 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and available to some 1.3 million homes across the continent via satellite.

Global Media Aids Initiative - Africa

www.broadcasthivafrica.org

The goal of the initiative is to mobilize the media industry around the sub-Saharan Africa in the AIDS response. Its strategy is to gain the commitment of media leaders in integrating HIV messaging across programming (including: soap operas, talk shows, news, phone-ins and public service announcements), to give air time and page space to the issue, to put in place HIV policies and training for staff and to establish a formal corporate position on these commitments.

Discovery Education

education.discovery.com
Discovery Education is the leader in digital video and multimedia-based learning. Through its public service initiatives, products, and partnerships Discovery Education reaches over 90,000 schools across the United States, serving 1.5 million teachers and their 35 million students each year.

National Geographic

www.nationalgeographic.co.uk
The National Geographic Channel provides television programmes about Adventure and Exploration, Animals and Nature, History and Culture, and covers Geographic, Photography and Travel News.

History Channel

www.historychannel.com
The History Channel provides users with access to a rich collection of online history resources.

BBC World Service Trust

www.bbcworldservicetrust.org
The BBC World Service Trust is an independent charity working with people in developing and transitional countries to improve the quality of their lives through the innovative use of the media. Their work covers Development Communications, Media Development, and research and learning

Media Institute of Southern Africa

www.misa.org
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media, as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration.

Communicating for Change

www.cfcnigeria.org
Communicating for Change (CFC) is a dynamic, communications organisation raising Africans’ awareness of environment and development issues to create positive change to develop the continent and change lifestyles. Messages are produced from a distinctly African perspective to counter the ever increasing flow of foreign, often culturally inappropriate, programming.

Media Forum for Global Health

Website: coming soon
Media Forum for Global Health is a newly incorporated non-profit organization. One of its first major project aims at increasing dramatically the awareness of the fight against HIV/AIDS through a week-long broadcasting campaign on or around World AIDS Day, December 1st 2006.

GFMD - Global Forum for Media Development

www.gfmd.info
GFMD aim to bring coherence, community and advocacy to the worldwide movement of media assistance providers, independent radio and television broadcasters, print media journalists, media activists, media law advocates, and government and private donors supporting independent, local media and professional journalism.

Committee on African Studies, Harvard University

www.africa.harvard.edu
The Harvard University Committee on African Studies is an interdisciplinary group of scholars to advance knowledge and understanding of Africa within Harvard.

Dalberg

www.dalberg.com
Dalberg is an international consulting firm of global investment advisors serving clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Dalberg provides advice to clients on globalization and sustainable international development in order to help them achieve breakthroughs in performance and innovation.

Eastside Consulting

www.eastsideconsulting.co.uk
Eastside focuses on delivering consultancy and business services to commercial businesses, social enterprises and charities.

Rapid Blue Ltd

www.rapidblue.com
Rapid Blue is one of South Africa's leading television production companies.

Programs4Media Ltd

www.programs4media.com
Programs4Media works with visual media producers and owners to maximize revenues from emerging markets.

African Public Broadcasting Foundation

www.apbf.tv
The African Public Broadcasting Foundation - APBF - encourages and stimulates social and economic change across sub-Saharan Africa through terrestrial free-to-air television and radio broadcasting.

Soul City Institute

www.soulcity.org.za
The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (SC IHDC) is a social change project which aims to impact on society at the individual, community and socio-political levels. SC IHDC is South Africa’s premier edutainment project.

Charter Broadcast - Broadcast Equipment Rental

www.charterbroadcast.co.uk
Charter Broadcast is one of the Europe's largest inventories of Broadcast Equipment. It provides the world class, custom built television facilities, digital radio camera system and all the services which is used for outside broadcast and television production companies.

A1 Duplication - CD & DVD Duplication

www.a1duplication.co.uk
CD ROM duplication, VHS duplication, DVD recording & CD replication UK Leaders. We understand our client's needs and work to the best of our ability to satisfy them.