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'''Tharkan Media Associates''' is one of the largest producers of music, print and video entertainment in the [[Lyran Commonwealth|Lyran]] realm, best known for its ownership of the '''Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation'''.<ref name=HSTLC-131>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 131 "Culture and the Arts - Public Media - Tharkan Media Associates"</ref><ref name=HHS-119>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 119 "Media and the Arts - Tharkan Media Associates"</ref><ref name=HHS-139>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 139 "Economics - Major Industries - Tharkan Media Associates"</ref>
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==Company Profile==
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| affiliation = [[Lyran Commonwealth]]
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'''Commonwealth Stock Exchange Symbol:''' ThaMeS<ref name=HHS-139/>
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| headquarters = [[Tropicana]]<br>([[Tharkad V]])<ref name=H:HSp139>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 139: "Tharkan Media Associates (ThaMeS)"</ref>
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'''Home Office:''' [[Tropicana]], [[Tharkad]] <ref name=HSTLC-131/> <ref name=HHS-119/> <ref name=HHS-139/>
| leadership = [[CEO of Tharkan Media Associates|CEO]]
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| products = Entertainment
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'''President/CEO:''' [[Darren Hussfield]] (Circa [[3067]])<ref name=HHS-139/>
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| divisions = [[Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation]]
 
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'''Tharkan Media Associates''' is one of the largest producers of music, print and video entertainment in the [[Lyran Commonwealth|Lyran]] realm, best known for its ownership of the '''Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation'''.{{ref label|name|See Notes}}
 
  
 
==Overview==
 
==Overview==
Based on Tharkad's Tatyana tropical island chain, TMA is known for high-quality news and entertainment programming in both print and electronic formats released under a number of labels. Historically a staunch supporter of the [[Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth|Archon]] and the Steiner family, the company's strict standards of excellence and professionalism meant that unlike [[Alliance Press]], TMA remained one of the more reliable and truth sources of information even during the dark days of the [[FedCom Civil War]].<ref name=H:HSp139/><ref name=HSTLCp129>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 129: "Culture and the Arts - Public Media - Tharkan Media Associates"</ref><ref name=H:HSp119>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 119: "Media and the Arts - Tharkan Media Associates"</ref>
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Based on Tharkad's Tatyana tropical island chain, TMA is known for high-quality news and entertainment programming in both print and electronic formats released under a number of labels. Historically a staunch supporter of the [[Archon]] and the Steiner family, the company's strict standards of excellence and professionalism meant that unlike [[Alliance Press]], TMA remained one of the more reliable and truth sources of information even during the dark days of the [[FedCom Civil War]]. <ref name=HSTLC-131/> <ref name=HHS-119/> <ref name=HHS-139/>
  
The company's publishing arm is known the high quality of its print and digital chip novels, including books by [[Grafina Gerbert]], one of the Commonwealth's most celebrated novelists, and the techno-thrillers of Mason Greenburg. Aside from fiction, TMA produces a wide range of historical text, documentaries, tourist guidebooks, how-to guides as well as monthly magazine digests on almost topic imaginable, ensuring that every bookshelf in the Lyran realm contains a few volumes and series from the company and its affiliates.<ref name=HSTLCp129/><ref name=H:HSp119/>
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The company's publishing arm is known the high quality of its print and digital chip novels, including books by Grafina Gerbert, one of the Commonwealth's most celebrated novelists, and the techno-thrillers of Mason Greenburg. Aside from fiction, TMA produces a wide range of historical text, documentaries, tourist guidebooks, how-to guides as well as monthly magazine digests on almost topic imaginable, ensuring that every bookshelf in the Lyran realm contains a few volumes and series from the company and its affiliates. <ref name=HSTLC-131/> <ref name=HHS-119/>
  
In [[3071]], reports from [[Richvale]] were pointing to the company buying the rights to distribute Alliance-wide the locally made comedy [[Stable Relationships]].<ref name=Distro_Deal>''Local Production Strikes Distro Deal''</ref>
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In [[3071]], reports from [[Richvale]] were pointing to the company buying the rights to distribute Alliance-wide the locally made comedy [[Stable Relationships]].<ref name=Distro_Deal>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [02/02/3071]: "Local Production Strikes Distro Deal"''</ref>
  
 
===Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation===
 
===Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation===
TMA's largest subsidiary, the Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation offers a sizable line of live-action and animated holovid shows for its customers, as well as well-regarded daily news program that covers events both inside and external to the Lyran realm. Much of TBC's programming is also exported to networks in the [[Draconis Combine]], [[Free Worlds League]], [[Federated Suns]], and [[Free Rasalhague Republic]], though with episodes sometimes a year behind their Lyran initial broadcast.<ref name=H:HSp139/><ref name=HSTLCp129/><ref name=H:HSp119/>
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TMA's largest subsidiary, the Tharkad Broadcasting Corporation offers a sizable line of live-action and animated holovid shows for its customers, as well as well regarded daily news program that covers events in both inside and external to the Lyran realm. Much of TBCs programming is also exported to networks in the [[Draconis Combine]], [[Free Worlds League]], [[Federated Suns]] and [[Free Rasalhague Republic]], though with episodes sometimes a year behind their Lyran initial broadcast. <ref name=HSTLC-131/> <ref name=HHS-119/> <ref name=HHS-139/>
 
 
TBC's most notable programming includes ''[[The Steinhearts]]'', an immensely popular and barely fictionalized soap opera based on the history of the Steiner family, and ''[[Remembrance (Holovid)|Remembrance]]'', a historical drama set during the initial [[Clan Invasion]].<ref name=HSTLCp129/><ref name=H:HSp119/>
 
  
==Notes==
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TBC's most notable programming includes "[[The Steinhearts]]", an immensely popular and barely fictionalized soap opera based on the history of the Steiner Family, and "Rememberence", a historical drama set during the initial [[Clan Invasion]]. <ref name=HSTLC-131/> <ref name=HHS-119/>
{{note|name}} TMA's subsidiary has also been referred to as Tharkan Broadcast Company<ref name=HSTLCp129/><ref name=H:HSp119/> and Tharkad Broadcasting Company.<ref name=H:HSp21>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 21: "Bad Omens"</ref>
 
  
 
==References==
 
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