Media
Atlanta TV & Video Repair
3101 Roswell Road, Marietta, GA, 30062
770-565-5009
Glenn Handler and his wife have run Atlanta TV & Video Repair, a kind of museum of analog, with old RCAs and VCRs piled into corners, in a dated strip mall at Old Canton and Roswell roads in Marietta, for twenty-one years.
Category: Appliance Repair, Media, Media Related Services, Services
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim
1050 Techwood Drive (Cartoon Network), Atlanta, GA, 30318
404-885-2263
This block of late-night programming has produced hit after controversial, hilarious, existential, surreal, postmodern, polarizing hit since its launch in 2001.
Website: http://www.adultswim.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown, Westside / Home Park
Category: Broadcasting, Media, Media Related Services
CDC’s Zombie Apocalypse
1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, 30333
800-232-4636
The CDC spiced up a blog entry on emergency preparedness with a walking-dead theme. The campaign was so popular the site crashed two days later, and they scored national PR awards.
Website: http://www.cdc.gov
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Druid Hills/Emory
Category: Advertising, Media
Clark Howard
1601 West Peachtree Street NE (WSB Radio), Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-872-0750
Atlanta’s most trusted consumer champion dishes out advice through a syndicated radio show, books, and website.
Website: http://www.clarkhoward.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Broadcasting, Media, Media Related Services
Mike Luckovich
223 Perimeter Center Parkway (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Atlanta, GA, 30346
404-526-5151
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist reminds us—with his trademark intelligence and humor—why it’s critical to care.
Website: http://ajc.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, North Metro
Category: Media, Media Related Services, Publishing
Monica Pearson
1601 West Peachtree Street NE (WSB TV), Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-897-7000
A fixture with WSB since 1975, Atlanta’s favorite news anchor is equally admired for her civic generosity.
Website: http://www.wsbtv.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Broadcasting, Media, Media Related Services
Neal Boortz
1601 West Peachtree Street NE (WSB Radio), Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-872-0750
In 2009, Boortz was voted into the national Radio Hall of Fame, so we thought it was time to put this Atlanta radio host, on air for forty years, in ours.
Website: http://boortz.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Broadcasting, Media, Media Related Services
The Georgia Review
285 South Jackson Street, Athens, GA, 30602
706-542-3481
For more than sixty years, the low-key Georgia Review has featured the very best poetry, short fiction, essays, art, and book reviews.
Website: http://uga.edu/garev
Category: Media, Publishing
WMLB 1690 The Voice of the Arts
1100 Spring Street, Suite 610, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-741-1690
In addition to deep tracks from the likes of Townes Van Zandt and John Prine, this station’s arts-related programming entrances.
Website: http://1690wmlb.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Broadcasting, Media
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