Fusion merged with the Milestone Group in 2003 and the station was relaunched as Passion 107. 9 ( and is still legally known as Passion Radio ), but was sold to Absolute Radio International in 2006.

In August 2005 Guardian Media Group ( GMG ) increased its shareholding in Reading 107 FM from 37. 8 % to a controlling stake of 60. 3 % when Milestone Radio Group decided to sell ; the remaining shareholding being owned by the Goodhead Group plc, a company controlled by Reading Football club chairman John Madejski.

Fusion Radio Holdings were purchased by the Milestone Group in April 2003, taking control of the former's similarly named Fusion 107. 9 station in Oxford, and adding a second operation to its portfolio of London-based radio stations-the first being Time 106. 8, operating from studios in Plumstead.

Milestone Radio, first applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for an urban music station in 1990, but were passed over in favour of a country music station, CISS ( now CKIS-FM ).

" It also saw a mass exodus of air staffers ( including the Program Director and sales staff, as well as all specialty programs and mix shows being cancelled ) as CTVglobemedia ( now Bell Media Radio ) took over the ownership of the station from Milestone.

CHUM previously joint ventured with Milestone with CHBN in Edmonton, which was sold to Rogers Radio along with CHST in London.

It also owned a significant minority interest in the radio station operators Milestone Radio, Haliburton Broadcasting Group and 3937844 Canada Inc. in Canada, and Martz Communications Group in the US.

In 1990, Milestone Radio applied to the CRTC for an urban music station in Toronto, which would have been the first such station in Canada, but that application was denied in favour of a country music station — which Toronto already had on its radio dial.

In 2010, further, Milestone announced a deal to sell Flow 93. 5 to CHUM Radio, a division of the mainstream media conglomerate CTVglobemedia.

She was also a founding member board of directors of Milestone Radio, owners of Canada's first urban music radio station, Flow 93. 5 in Toronto.

In a controversial decision, the CBC was awarded the 99. 1 frequency over Milestone Radio, who had applied to open an urban music station, which would have been the first station operating under that format in Canada, to serve the city's large black community.

The station's licensing by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had been controversial, because the CRTC had passed over an application by Milestone Radio for an urban music station, which would have been a new format in the Toronto market, in favour of Rawlco's application to serve a niche which was already served by existing stations.

The CRTC finally granted a license to Milestone in 2000, after a cabinet order-in-council directed the commission to license two new radio stations that reflected the cultural diversity of the Toronto market, and CFXJ-FM launched in 2001.

The only two Best Director winners to win for films which did not receive a Best Picture nomination are likewise in the early years: Lewis Milestone ( 1927 / 28 ) and Frank Lloyd ( 1928 / 29 ).

The staff at Variety magazine also reviewed the film favorably, writing, " Under skillful directorial guidance of Lewis Milestone, the picture retains all of the forceful and poignant drama of John Steinbeck's original play and novel, in presenting the strange palship and eventual tragedy of the two California ranch itinerants.

* In Static # 14, part of the Worlds Collide crossover between DC Comics and Milestone Media, the villain Rift combined Metropolis and Dakota, creating a futuristic amalgamation of the two.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

The character Miles ( Michael Beach ) plays keyboards in an R & B group called " Milestone "; the vocalists of the group are portrayed by two sibling teams of professional R & B performers: brothers K-Ci Hailey and Jo-Jo Hailey ( of Jodeci and K-Ci & JoJo ); and Babyface and his brothers Kevon Edmonds and Melvin Edmonds ( both of After 7 ).

A year later, Milestone Media published its first company-wide crossover, Shadow War, which spawned two more titles: Shadow Cabinet and Xombi.

The first two non-founder employees of Milestone were Matt Wayne, a script and comic writer who became editor, then managing editor ; and Christine Gilliam, the office manager – cum head of corporate communications.

* ' Milestone of the Tres Fronteras, 3 km from the city center, on site join the two rivers, Paraguay and Iguaçu and three countries, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

As in the first two levels, each unit contains a ten-minute " Milestone " activity in which the user participates in a simulated conversation. The four units in Level 3 are

Under an arrangement similar to the one DC and Wildstorm established later, all Milestone characters existed in a separate continuity that did not fall under DC Comics ' direct editorial control ( but DC still retained right of refusal to publish ).

In response, the federal cabinet issued an Order in Council to the CRTC directing it to give precedence to applications that took into account Toronto's cultural and racial diversity, effectively guaranteeing that Milestone would get a license in the new round of hearings.

“ In the 1990s Milestone released the band ’ s Gennett sides on compact disc ”.

Smith had a career revival in the 1980s and 1990s, again recording for Blue Note and Verve, and for Milestone and Elektra.

The Ultraverse line was launched during the " boom " of the early 1990s, roughly concurrent with the debut of publishers such as Image and Valiant, and new superhero lines from DC and Dark Horse ( Milestone and Comics Greatest World, respectively ).

On June 16, 2000, the CRTC awarded one of the frequencies to Milestone, on the company's third attempt.

In 2000, the CRTC awarded one of the new frequencies to Milestone, who launched CFXJ in 2001, and the other to Aboriginal Voices, who launched CFIE in 2002.

Several directors, including Lewis Milestone, were offered and rejected Laura until Rouben Mamoulian finally agreed to direct.

He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part.

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

The motel concept originated with the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel, which was constructed in 1925 by Arthur Heineman ( although some earlier motels that dated to 1915 have been discovered ).

The Racket ( 1928 ) is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone.

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The film, produced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by Lewis Milestone.

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Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Having previously only existed on worn 16mm prints, the film was restored and enlarged to 35mm by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Milestone Films, thanks in part to a donation from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

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He contrived approach drives and lodges to enhance impressions of size and importance, and even introduced monogramed milestones on the roads around some estates, for which he was satirised by Thomas Love Peacock as ' Marmaduke Milestone, esquire, a Picturesque Landscape Gardener ' in Headlong Hall.

* 1932-as Rain, starring Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Guy Kibbee and Beulah Bondi ; adapted by Maxwell Anderson, directed by Lewis Milestone.

The film, released on 14 August 1952, was directed by All Quiet on the Western Front's Lewis Milestone, and Rennie's performance was respectfully, but not enthusiastically, received by the critics.