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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>ABRY Partners</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity_firm" title="Private equity firm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">private equity firm</a> headquartered in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" title="Boston, Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Boston, Massachusetts</a> that focuses on investments in media. Since 1989, the firm has completed over $18.0 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media properties.</p>

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Current and previous areas of investment include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television" title="Cable television" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cable television</a>, publishing, radio and television broadcasting, and other media and communications sectors.

Senior Investment Professionals at ABRY include: Andrew Banks, Royce Yudkoff, Peggy Koenig, Jay Grossman, Erik Brooks, Peni Garber, and John Hunt.</span>Notable past, present, and future investments include<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_III_Broadcasting" title="Act III Broadcasting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Act III Broadcasting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Business_Media" title="Cygnus Business Media" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cygnus Business Media</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Broadcasting_Group" title="Nexstar Broadcasting Group" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nexstar Broadcasting Group</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_Holdings" title="Muzak Holdings" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Muzak Holdings</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Pictures" title="Legendary Pictures" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Legendary Pictures</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Theatres" title="Consolidated Theatres" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Consolidated Theatres</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%2BW_Media" title="F+W Media" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">F+W Media</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Line" title="Language Line" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Language Line</a>,<span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting" title="Citadel Broadcasting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Citadel Broadcasting</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitronics" title="Monitronics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Monitronics</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN_Corporation" title="RCN Corporation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">RCN Corporation</a>.

In October 2010, ABRY Partners acquisition of Outsourced staffing provider 'Comforce Corp' (CFS) for $84.8 million.<sup id="cite_ref-htanna_1-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABRY_Partners#cite_note-htanna-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notable past investments include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Business_Media" title="Cygnus Business Media" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cygnus Business Media</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%2BW_Media" title="F+W Media" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">F+W Media</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak_Holdings" title="Muzak Holdings" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Muzak Holdings</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Pictures" title="Legendary Pictures" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Legendary Pictures</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Theatres" title="Consolidated Theatres" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Consolidated Theatres</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting" title="Citadel Broadcasting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Citadel Broadcasting</a>.</p>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_III_Broadcasting" title="Act III Broadcasting" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Act III Broadcasting</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11.1999998092651px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABRY_Partners#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Broadband" title="Atlantic Broadband" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Atlantic Broadband</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Communications" title="Grande Communications" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grande Communications</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitronics" title="Monitronics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Monitronics</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Reports" title="Music Reports" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Music Reports</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Broadcasting_Group" title="Nexstar Broadcasting Group" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nexstar Broadcasting Group</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProQuest" title="ProQuest" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ProQuest</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-htanna-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" -webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABRY_Partners#cite_ref-htanna_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news" style=" word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101102-709666.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Comforce Agrees To Be Acquired By P-E Firm ABRY For $84.8M"</a>. Wall Street journal<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style=" white-space: nowrap;">2 November</span> 2010</span>.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style=" line-height: 1; font-size: 10.0799999237061px;"><span style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title=" since February 2012">dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup></span></li>

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