Ascent Media Group LLC provides creative and technical media services, including post-production work, for the media and entertainment industries. Customers include studios, producers and networks. Ascent Media is based in Santa Monica, California. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Discovery Holding Company.

Ascent Media offers "integrated outsourcing solutions for the technical and creative requirements of its clients, from content creation and other post-production services to media management and transmission of the final product to broadcast television stations, cable system head-ends and other destinations and distribution points."

Ascent Media has two operating divisions or groups:blank">http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1320482/000095013407004374/d43634e10vk.htm

• Creative Services: "post-production" video and sound services; media management services
• Network Services: distribution and control including satellite uplink/downlink

Ascent Media was formed from several companies including the _Todd-AO Corporation which won the Academy Award for Sound for several motion pictures.