question: Remark Media spun off from the mass media company based in what city?
answer: Silver Spring, Maryland
context: Title: Discovery Communications
  Passage: Discovery Communications is an American mass media company based in Silver Spring, Maryland.  The company was first established in 1985 as the owner of its namesake U.S. television channel, Discovery Channel; the company operates other major factual television networks in the United States as well, including Animal Planet, and TLC, along with other spin-offs of Discovery.  It also owns or has interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, as well as other major regional operations such as Eurosport.
  Title: ProSiebenSat.1 Media
  Passage: ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (officially abbreviated as P7S1, formerly ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG) is a European mass media company, based in Germany.  It operates free-to-air commercial TV channels, pay TV channels, radio stations and related print businesses.  It was formed on October 2, 2000 by the merger of German TV broadcasters ProSieben Media AG (founded in 1989) and Sat.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH (founded in 1984 as PKS (Programmgesellschaft für Kabel- und Satellitenrundfunk)).  The company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is a component of the DAX index.
  Title: HT Media
  Passage: HT Media is an Indian mass media company based in Delhi, India.  It has holdings in print, electronic and digital media.
  Title: Remark Media
  Passage: Remark Media (NASDAQ: MARK ) is a global digital media company that specializes in creating technology platforms and user interfaces that combine content with social media.  Spun out from Discovery Communications' HowStuffWorks in 2007, Remark Media owns and operates the international versions of HowStuffWorks in China and Brazil, and is the digital publisher for certain content from World Book in China.  The company is a founding partner of Sharecare, a searchable social Q&A healthcare platform organizing and answering the questions of health.  The company was formerly known as HSW International.
  Title: María Elena Meneses Rocha
  Passage: María Elena Meneses Rocha is a former journalist and current professor and researcher into media, communications and the Internet with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City.  On the campus she teaches and is the coordinator of the Cátedra Sociedad de la Información, with does research and consulting in mass media and information technology.  She continues to work with mass media, as a writer and as a commentator for print, broadcast and Internet media, mostly commenting on information technologies.  She is married with two daughters and lives in Mexico City.
  Title: Johnny Yau
  Passage: Johnny Yau Chung Ling (邱仲凌) is a Hong Kong businessman, the Managing Director of a Chinese based mass media company named Media Plus Hong Kong Limited in Hong Kong, China.  Yau has been working for at least 35 years in TV production, advertising, sales, marketing planning and international business developments, and acquiring businesses both in Hong Kong and other overseas TV media.  He worked at TVB and TVBI for more than 25 years and was the General Manager of Television Broadcast Satellite Limited.
  Title: The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech
  Passage: The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech (EMCVT) is an independent governing body over student mass media organizations of the Virginia Tech campus.  The EMCVT board of directors is made up of Virginia Tech faculty and staff, students, and members of the Blacksburg, Virginia community.  As the parent company, EMCVT owns the copyrights on all media produced by its divisions.
  Title: Le Défi Media Group
  Passage: Le Défi Media Group is a mass media company based in Port Louis, Mauritius.  The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radio and digital media.  The newspapers, magazines and radio are mostly published and broadcast in French.
  Title: Consolidated Media Associates
  Passage: CMA Group (short for Consolidated Media Associates Limited) is a Nigerian global mass media company with interests in broadcasting, print and events management.  It is West Africa's largest broadcasting and cable company in terms of airtime sales/syndication and on-air brand management.  Consolidated Media Associates has Alphavision Multimedia as subsidiary and a General Media Production and Television powerhouse with footprints in Satellite, Cable, Digital and Terrestrial Television.  CMA Group is the parent company for TV channels Soundcity TV, Trybe TV, Televista TV, Spice TV, ONTV Nigeria, ONMAX, VillageSquare TV, Urban96 Radio Network, Access 24 and Televise TV and radio stations Soundcity Radio Network, Access 24 and Urban96 Radio Network.  CMA's networks reach approximately 100 million viewers in 70 countries.
  Title: Media imperialism
  Passage: Media imperialism is a theory based upon an over-concentration of mass media from larger nations as a significant variable in negatively affecting smaller nations, in which the national identity of smaller nations is lessened or lost due to media homogeneity inherent in mass media from the larger countries.
citations: Remark Media Discovery Communications