Ruífono

Ruífono is a large, diversified global media company based in Josusí, DF (map), in the Ardisphere, at the heart of the Ardispherian culture industry. It is listed on the Mercado de Valores de Villa Constitución and is included in the IBA-150.

Logo and Image

Interestingly, although the company does not actually own the iconic Torre Kapanadze (which is their main trademarked brand image, see at right), they do own the rights to its image in commercial contexts, due to some work by a forward-thinking company lawyer in the 1930s. The tower itself is owned by the VC government, but commercial use of the tower's image must be licensed by Ruífono. Generally speaking, they are not aggressive in pursuing abuses, but it does actually provide the company with a reliable revenue stream. The company maintains a small radio studio for their VC talk-radio subsidiary, RadioRuido, on deck 3 of the observation floors of the tower.

History

Originally founded by the famous inventor, Mafalda Ruíz in the 1880s, initially the Ruífono Company produced music boxes, player pianos and then achieved huge success with an early phonograph machine. Eventually, the company took to contracting and producing its own musical performances to provide recordings for its phonographs. By the early 1920s, the company had branched into radio broadcasting, household appliances and developed one of the first Ardispherian movie studios. By the 1940s, changing technology was rendering its hardware obsolete, and the company was increasingly synonymous with its broadcasting arms. Nevertheless, Ruífono audio equipment was still being manufactured into the 1960s, when the company finally divested its hardware arm entirely to concentrate on the higher margins of content production and broadcasting.

Today, for hardware the Ruífono brand is owned by an international electronics company and has been resurrected as brand for premium audio equipment, but the Ruífono company is not associated with that brand. In the area of content production, however, Ruífono remains one of the "big three" Ardispherian broadcast companies, in both radio and television, as well as running television, music recording and movie studios and branching successfully into online content.

Subsidiaries, Channels and Brand Portfolio

News Services

Noticiero Ruífono is the brand for Ruífono's news services, which are provided in multiple languages and through multiple outlets. National news services are provided in all the official national or regional Ardispherian languages, including Castellanese, Gohangukian, Ingerish, Franquese, Bofobundan, Karolian Romans, Vizcayan, Altazorian and Mahhalian.

News Partnerships

In May, 2015, Noticiero Ruífono announced a partnership with Gobrassanya-based OGNNews for their expanding international Ingerish-language news service. A Ruífono spokesperson seemed to indicate that the outlet would be abandoning their own web news service and focusing their reporting and aggregation services on the OGNNews site. The extent of the integration of the two services is not yet public.