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During his studies at Iowa State, he was employed as a part time photographer and reporter at the KRNT radio and television station in Des Moines. [3] [9] [10] He then joined the Associated Press, serving in Kentucky, Japan and South Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as chief Middle Eastern correspondent for next two and a half years ...
The abbreviation TVR stems from the name of the company's owner Trevor Wilkinson, his first garage sporting the letters T, V, and R. The history of TVR can be divided into several eras, each of which is associated with the company's owner at the start of that period: 1946–1965, founder Trevor Wilkinson, who left in 1962; 1965–1981, Martin ...
Thazhuvia Ramasubbaiyer (2 October 1908 – 21 July 1984), popularly referred to as TVR, was a philanthropist and founder of the popular Tamil daily newspaper Dinamalar. [ 1 ] Early life
His father Alfred Eugene Brockman was a gas-station owner, and his mother, Pearl, was a physiotherapist. [1] Thomas David Brockman was his brother. [1] Brockman briefly attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He later graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 1963, and was a member of its business honor society. [1] [2]
Peter Robert Wheeler (29 February 1944 – 11 June 2009) was a chemical engineer from Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years. Wheeler made his fortune supplying specialist equipment to the North Sea oil industry. After owning a TVR, he ended up buying the company in 1981.
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.
Van Dyke remained the station's news anchor for 28 years. [9] At the time of his retirement in 1983, he had the longest tenure of any news anchor in the United States, having made 2,700 newscasts on radio and 6,600 newscasts on TV. [10] In 1955, Van Dyke was the chairman of the national Radio and Television News Director's Association.
WLOK staffers were notified on July 30, 1954, that the stations were in the process of being sold, which was confirmed to The Lima News, but the buyer's name was not disclosed. [41] The same day, Lloyd Pixley died at the age of 54; he had suffered a heart attack while attending the 1953 Ohio State-Michigan game and had been in hospital care on ...