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Primark Stores Limited (/ ˈ p r aɪ m ɑːr k /; trading as Penneys in Ireland) [6] [7] is an Irish multinational fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, [8] 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.
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.
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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 .
He later went on to establish Home Box Office Inc., which eventually became known as HBO, in 1972, Cablevision in 1973 and the American Movie Classics (AMC) television station in 1984, CNN reported.
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The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.