Editing Ear Candy Company

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| affiliation = [[Lyran Commonwealth]]
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| headquarters = Ear Candy City<br>([[Skye IV]])<ref name=HSTLC-129/><ref name=HBHS136/>
| leadership = [[CEO of Ear Candy Company|CEO]]
| products = Entertainment
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| divisions = {{Ubl|Ear Candy Tours|Star Drive}}
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The '''Ear Candy Company''' of [[Skye]] is the [[Lyran Commonwealth]]'s preeminent producer of live and recorded audio entertainment.<ref name=HSTLC-129>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 129: "The EarCandy Company of Skye"</ref><ref name=HBHS136>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 136: "Ear Candy Company (EaCaCo)"</ref>

==Overview==
The Ear Candy Company is one of the Lyran realm's largest and most pervasive entertainment industries outside of the mammoth [[Tharkan Media Associates]] and [[Donegal Broadcasting Company]], focusing instead entirely on popular music and sensory recordings. Investing in its talent, the company produces the vast majority of its musichips, [[holovid|holodiscs]] and sensory cubes from its Skye-based recording studios in Ear Candy City. The company is divided into two branches; Star Drive and Ear Candy Tours.<ref name=HSTLC-129/><ref name=HBHS136/>

The company's production label, Star Drive offers a wide mix of prerecorded popular and classic music selections. Circa [[3025]] Star Drive was having considerable success with such rock and roll bands as ''[[The 'Mech Droppings]]'', ''[[Crankshaft]]'', ''[[The Tamar Traitors]]'', the ''[[Solar Sailors]]'' and the hotest band in the Lyran realm at the time, ''[[Theras and Her Red Deltas]]''. Star Drive also offers more high-brow recordings from the ''[[Wellington Symphony of Donegal]]'', the ''[[Summer Operatics]]'' and the ''[[Tharkan Boy's Choir]]''.<ref name=HSTLC-129/><ref name=HBHS136/>

Ear Candy Tours instead focuses entirely on live entertainment, booking and managing tours for Star Drive's musical artists in the concert halls throughout the Commonwealth. In mid-January [[3022]] Ear Candy Tours reportedly booked the ''Tharkan Boy's Choir'' to perform in the Kesterton Amphitheater on Skye, but instead ''Theras and Her Red Deltas'' took the stage to perform, launching into a performance that included whips, chains and anatomical displays. When later interviewed by the [[Skye News Network]], some of the audience members admitted they actually enjoyed it, but most of the more high-brow leaning audience demanded Ear Candy Tours return their money.<ref name=HSTLC-129/>

By the [[Word of Blake]] [[Jihad]], Ear Candy had made inroads in both the [[Federated Suns]] and [[Free Worlds League]], engaging in fierce competition with the [[Magistracy of Canopus]]-based [[Mindstar Enterprises]].<ref name=MM-177>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossier'', p. 177: "Magistracy of Canopus - Corporations of the Magistracy - Mindstar Enterprises"</ref>

In [[3072]] the company was one of the media giants of the sector.<ref name=Entertainment_Year_in_Review>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Art and Leisure section), news item published [15/12/3072] "Entertainment Year in Review"''</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[List of Arts and Leisure articles#Entertainment Year in Review|BattleCorps Arts and Leisure, 15/12/3072: "Entertainment Year in Review"]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''

[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Corporations]]