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Primark Limited [6] [7] (/ ˈ p r aɪ m ɑːr k /; trading as Penneys in Ireland) [8] [9] is an Irish multinational fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, [10] with outlets across Europe and in the United States. The original Penneys brand is not used outside of Ireland because it is owned elsewhere by American retailer JCPenney.
Founder & Chairman of Primark Arthur St. John Ryan (18 July 1935 [ 1 ] – 8 July 2019) was an Irish businessman who was the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Primark . The business was founded as Penneys and continues to trade under that name in the Republic of Ireland .
WGN-TV Chicago, through its WGN Sports department, holds the broadcast rights to the following sports telecasts, which were discontinued from airing on WGN America as of December 15, 2014: [3] Chicago Bulls NBA basketball games 1; Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball games 1; Chicago White Sox Major League Baseball games 1
On April 9, 2003 Today aired live until noon EST when U.S. troops entered Baghdad. Lester Holt filled in for Lauer, hosting alongside Katie Couric. Today coverage was restarted as an NBC News Special Report at 9:12 am EST and Tom Brokaw joined Couric in Studio 1A until taking over the coverage from NBC News headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza ...
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
NBC was founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a then-subsidiary of General Electric (GE), making it the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. In 1932, GE was forced to sell RCA and NBC as a result of antitrust charges; in 1986, control of NBC passed back to GE through its $6.4 billion purchase of RCA, which ...