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Roberts was born on March 13, 1920, in New York City.His parents Robert Max Roberts (also known as Bob Roberts) and Sara Wahl were both Russian-Jewish immigrants who became wealthy in the United States through ownership of a number of pharmacies, the most notable of which was in the Biltmore Hotel.
After his father Keith Murdoch died in 1952, Murdoch took over the running of The News, a small Adelaide newspaper owned by his father. In the 1950s and 1960s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun. In ...
Brian L. Roberts (born June 28, 1959) is an American entrepreneur, business executive and billionaire.He is the chairman and CEO of Comcast, a multinational telecommunications and media company providing entertainment and communications products and services, founded by his late father, Ralph J. Roberts.
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend (born December 10, 1989) [1] [2] is an American political strategist and political commentator who hosts MSNBC's The Weekend. She served as national press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign (no relation). She left the campaign in June 2016, following the end of the primaries. [3]
While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on COVID-19. [10] On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network. [11] On January 14, 2025, she resigned from the network. [12]
He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the US. Zuckerman is also the owner and publisher of U.S. News & World Report, where he serves as editor-in-chief. He formerly owned the New York Daily News, [1] The Atlantic, and Fast Company.
A friend mentioned that WKBS-TV was searching for someone for their newly started news operation. Vance auditioned and realized that perhaps he was working in the wrong profession. [6] Vance worked as a reporter for WKBS-TV for one year [7] and was later hired by NBC News to report for the network's affiliate Washington, D.C. station, WRC-TV in ...
In Reno is where Applegate met Rob Nikoleski, who was the sports news director at a competing Reno station, KOLO. They eventually married, [3] but divorced after eight years. In 1996, Applegate was the first face seen on the cable network MSNBC at the station's launch. She anchored MSNBC Live and Weekend Today on the main NBC network.