It was owned by the Milestone Group who closed all operations by April 2009.

This led to the sale of the business to Aroma, a subsidiary of the Milestone Group.

* Milestone Group

The Milestone Group is a British Technology company.

The Milestone Group had one television channel:

The Milestone Group used to own five local radio stations in the UK.

The Milestone Group used to own six publications, under the Courier Newspapers brand:

* Milestone Group PLC official website

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.

The station, then owned by the Milestone Group, enjoyed considerable success, and was lauded at one point as the UK's most successful local commercial radio station in terms of audience reach-once at 44 % ( RAJAR Q2 2005 )-attributed to an emphasis on local presence, and presenters who were recruited on the basis of quality.

The station was put up for sale in June 1999, and was purchased by the Milestone Group in 2000.

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.

After driving rearguards from the Miyazaki Group ( an independent detachment from the 31st Division ) and the Japanese 60th Regiment from their delaying positions on the Dimapur-Imphal road, the leading troops of IV Corps and XXXIII Corps met at Milestone 109, north of Imphal, on 22 June, and the siege of Imphal was raised.

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.

* Milestone at Concord Music Group

The newspaper was launched in association with local radio station Kestrel FM in 2000, and was owned by the Milestone Group until it was sold in a management buyout in September 2006, its owners now being Tri-Media Publishing.

The company also retains its minority shares in the Haliburton, Milestone and Martz radio groups, although both Haliburton and Martz have sold off many of their assets in 2008 as well.

Another company called Milestone Records was active in the late 1950s, releasing music by acts such as The Jodimars and The Blue Jays.

Milestone Media is a company best known for creating Milestone Comics and securing an unheard of publishing and distribution deal with DC Comics and the Static Shock cartoon series.

Christopher Priest participated in the early planning stages of Milestone Media, and was originally slated to become the editor-in-chief of the new company, but bowed out for personal reasons before any of Milestone's titles were published.

Milestone was criticized by several black independent companies and creators for their DC deal, claiming that Milestone Media was compromising itself by working with a ' white ' company like DC Comics and was being used by DC to undermine independent black companies.

He contributed to the development of the original Milestone story bible and designed the company logo.

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

Milestone concluded that the lack of digital licences rendered the stations non-viable and all channels had ceased broadcasting by April 2009, including the original Oxford channel.

* 2003: Live-Lee ( Milestone )

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.

In conceiving of a name for his hotel, Heineman abbreviated motor hotel to mo-tel after he could not fit the words " Milestone Motor Hotel " on his rooftop.

If the project does not pass this milestone, called the Lifecycle Objective Milestone, it either can be cancelled or repeated after being redesigned to better meet the criteria.

* EKU's yearbook, The Milestone returned to campus in 2007 after a 10-year absence.

In 2004, the film was re-released by Milestone Films after an extensive restoration, with music scored by Neil Brand.

Wise Son was responsible for stopping the Utopia Park riot, chronicled in the Milestone crossover event ' Long Hot Summer ', after Masquerade, disguised as Tech-9, persuaded him to use the Utopia Park PA system to appeal for an end to the violence.

Shortly after the festival, three film professionals who had screened I Am Cuba at the San Francisco screening contacted friends at Milestone Films in New York.

Static's civilian identity was named after an African-American who was denied entrance to the University of Florida's law school in 1949. Milestone ceased publishing comics in 1997 but Static was saved from obscurity by the WB animated series Static Shock, which aired for four seasons and led to the 2001 comic book miniseries Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool ; The 2009 trade paperback of this series was nominated for a Glyph Comics Award for Best Reprint Collection.

Simen Vangen took over for Jon Lauvland Pettersen, a founding member of Madrugada ; Lauvland Pettersen left the band after their second album ( in 2002 ) and is currently playing in the band Milestone Refinery ; Simen Vangen announced his leaving in 2005 and stated he wanted to focus on various jazz projects, things that did not fit together with being a member of Madrugada ; however, he will continue to collaborate with Sivert Høyem in The Opposition.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

Despite this requirement for the Hays whitewash squad, Solow and Milestone retain all of the virility of the piece in its original form.

The Milestone was the main club for a good period of time, until a boycott began against the club, and its owner.

In 2002 on the 75th anniversary of the plant, its historic status was recognised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers, who marked the facility as an Engineering Milestone of the 20th century.

Like Wolfman's run, this era was prominent for its team-ups between DC heroes and the characters of Milestone Media.

In the 2010 limited series Milestone Forever, which details the end of the original Milestone universe before its merger into the DCU, the truth behind Dharma's actions is shown.

The PJB-100 was the first MP3 portable to garner a " Milestone " product designation from MP3 Newswire, which they defined in their January 2000 review of the PJB-100 as " any product whose breakthrough innovations are so significant, they influence the future course of its industry ".

It referred to the return of the multi-ethnic Milestone Comics universe and its crossover into the less diverse DC Comics universe.

In 1993, Milestone Media launched its first batch of titles: Hardware, Icon, Blood Syndicate and Static.

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

Milestone had several advantages in its publishing efforts: Their books were distributed and marketed by one of the " Big Two " comic book publishers, the comics industry had experienced remarkable increases in sales in preceding years, they featured the work of several well-known and critically acclaimed creators, they used a coloring process that gave their books a distinctive look, and they had the potential to appeal to an audience that was not being targeted by other publishers.

Milestone cancelled several of its lower-selling series in 1995 and 1996, and aborted plans for several mini-series.

Milestone shut down its comic book division in 1997, with some of the remaining ongoing series discontinued in mid-story.

Taking place in the original Milestone Universe, it detailed the final fate of several of Dakota's heroes and revealed the events that led to its merger into the DC Universe.

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.

The following year, Dubmatique broke through as the first Quebec rap band to top Canada's francophone pop charts, and some controversy erupted in Toronto when Milestone was again passed over for an urban radio station on its second application.

The recipients included Emil Jannings, the first person to receive an Academy Award, for Best Actor for the films The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command ; Janet Gaynor for Best Actress, for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ; Frank Borzage for Best Director, Drama for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Best Director, Comedy for Two Arabian Knights ; and the film Wings, the most expensive film of its time, became the Best Picture recipient.

At its fortieth anniversary, it was named both a " Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing " and also a " Mechanical Engineering Landmark "

Following the success of Image Comics ( a studio of comics ' top artists each publishing their own book contained in its own mini-universe ) and Valiant Comics ( a cohesive universe shared by all the Valiant characters ; the model the Ultraverse line aimed to imitate ), a number of new universes were launched including Milestone from DC and Comics Greatest World from Dark Horse.