He then raised $ 300, in partnership with others, for the purchase of the failing Marion Daily Star, the weakest of the growing city's three newspapers ; Harding was complete owner of the Star by 1886.

When Omas is elected, Calrissian, Karrde, and Star Destroyer owner Booster Terrik lead the Smuggler's Alliance, with Han Solo commanding, to victory over a massive Yuuzhan Vong force in the rout at Ebaq 9.

After the Civil War, a man named Angus Leach moved to Hunsucker's Store and helped to found the present Town of Star, serving as postmaster, hotel operator, and general merchandise store owner.

His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury the part owner of The London Star and he moved to London in 1919 and worked for them until 1927 before moving to The Evening Standard.

Shimerman is best known for his role as the Ferengi bar owner Quark in the long-running television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, though his involvement with the Star Trek franchise began with appearances as other Ferengi characters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " The Last Outpost " and " Peak Performance ".

In August 2012, Wayzata Investment Partners became the majority owner of The Star Tribune Company, with a 58 % stake.

A number of groups expressed interest in purchasing the company, several placed bids, and on May 22, 2006 it was announced that regional theme park operator Cedar Fair Entertainment Company ( best known as the owner of Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio ) had outbid competitors and intended to purchase all five parks in the Paramount chain, including Star Trek: The Experience at The Las Vegas Hilton and the management agreement of Bonfante Gardens.

Through its substantial holding of companies such as Huaren Holdings, MCA also controls five other significant media press companies, i. e., The Star, being Malaysia's best-selling English language newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, and China Press, being three of the best-selling Chinese newspapers in Kuala Lumpur and Central Region of West Malaysia ; and Guang Ming Daily being a smaller press in northern West Malaysia as the owner of these four presses are owned by media tycoon Tiong Hiew King where his family members are the major party of the ruling coalition in Sarawak.

* Richard Desmond, the owner of Britain's Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers, confirms that he has made a bid for the troubled Daily Telegraph.

" From the time of the 1934 merger, the house flags of both lines had been flown on all its ships, with each ship flying the flag of its original owner above the other, but from 1950, even Georgic and Britannic, the last surviving White Star liners, flew the Cunard house flag above the White Star burgee.

After the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the White Star Line's owner, J. Bruce Ismay, required that every passenger boat under his control would thereafter be fitted with sufficient lifeboats for all passengers.

When the company decided to exit the newspaper business, Thomson sold The Western Star to Cox on September 1, 2000, though only after Thomson's original plans to sell the paper to Gannett, owner of The Cincinnati Enquirer, fell apart.

He sits on a number of board of directors including Torstar, publisher of the Toronto Star and a series of smaller newspapers and owner of Harlequin Enterprises, a global publisher of popular romance novels.

* Paxton Media Group, owner of WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, and newspapers such as the Daily Star ( Hammond, Louisiana )

Allbritton would not assist Katharine Graham, the owner of the Post, in any way, refusing to print his rival's papers on the Stars presses since that likely would have caused the Star to be struck by the press operators as well.

Kauffman, president and part owner of the Evening Star, was given additional duties as president of its broadcasting subsidiary, the Evening Star Broadcasting Company until his resignation in August 1954.

In early January 1976, the Evening Star Broadcasting Company ’ s WMAL, WMAL-FM and WMAL-TV and majority control of the ailing newspaper were acquired from the Kauffman, Noyes and Adams families by publisher Joseph L. Albritton ’ s Perpetual Corporation and Albritton became board chairman and chief owner of WMAL ’ s license.

In December 1999 Tabcorp announced the acquisition of Star City Holdings Limited, the owner of the Star City hotel and casino complex in Sydney.

On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.

In 1995, Warner and station owner Tribune Company of Chicago launched The WB Network, finding a niche market in teenagers.

* U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns, Utah Mining magnate and owner of Salt Lake Tribune, an O ' Neill native

As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 26 — a virtual ghost town whose preservation is being spearheaded by investments from Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., a businessman and owner of the Portland Tribune and Columbia Empire Farms.

* More than $ 400 million worth of silver ore was mined in Jupiter Peak, creating 23 millionaires, including U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns ( Utah ), an owner of the Silver King Coalition Mine, The Salt Lake Tribune and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad ; and George Hearst, father of William Randolf Hearst founder of the Hearst newspaper dynasty.

After World War I, cartoonist Harold Gray joined the Chicago Tribune which, at that time, was being reworked by owner Joseph Medill Patterson into an important national journal.

The New York Times became a joint owner of the Paris Herald Tribune in May 1967, whereupon the newspaper became known as the International Herald Tribune ( IHT ).

Meanwhile, as Greeley had been pursuing his political career, Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Herald, had gained control of the Tribune.

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of the New York Herald newspaper and the International Herald Tribune, establishes the Gordon Bennett Cup.

Additionally, the show explored the business pressures of modern media through layoffs occurring at the fictional Sun, which were ordered by the Tribune Company, the corporate owner of The Sun.

The Medill School was founded in 1921 and named after Joseph Medill ( 1823 – 1899 ), owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune, which was then run by his grandsons Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson.

In 1900, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the owner of the New York Herald newspaper and the International Herald Tribune, established the Gordon Bennett Cup.

Following Greeley's defeat by Ulysses S. Grant for the presidency of the United States in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Herald, assumed control of the Tribune.

Tribune is also a minority ( 30 percent ) owner of the Food Network, along with majority partner Scripps Networks Interactive.

" that the paper's owner, the Tribune Company, currently owns a newspaper and a television station in the same market, which is illegal, and may have fired Scheer in an attempt to make it easier to obtain a waiver permitting the dual ownership from the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

In 2008, Neil participated in a federal class action suit against Sam Zell, who in 2007 purchased the Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times.

The publishing corporation held interests in KLX, part owner of a paper mill in Tacoma, Washington and subsidiary businesses, U-Bild, Tower Graphics and Tribune Features, Inc.

The architectural and administrative centerpiece of the Manhattanville campus, Reid Hall ( 1864 ), is named after Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune.

The 2002 Tribune acquisition by Dean Singleton, owner of the nation's 7th largest newspaper chain, prompted an exposé.

Maynard had purchased the declining Tribune — thus becoming the first black owner of a major metro paper — and recruited Roy to be its features editor.

The station, along with most of Tribune's independent stations, affiliated with The WB Television Network, of which Tribune was a partial owner, in January 1995, and in September of that year, it changed its on-air identity to WB 17.

McClatchy had already arranged the sale of the Herald to Forum Communications, owner of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks.

McClatchy, owner of the Sacramento Bee newspaper, and Sacramento Telecasters had long fought over the television broadcast station permit before the Federal Communications Commission and ultimately in federal court.

* Kevin McClatchy ( born 1963 ), he former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team

Kevin S. McClatchy ( born January 13, 1963, Sacramento, California ) is the former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.

He led a group of investors that purchased the team in 1996, and served as the team's CEO and lead owner until 2007, when Bob Nutting took over as lead owner, and McClatchy and Nutting hired Frank Coonelly to become CEO.

On January 12, 2007, the Pirates announced that Robert Nutting would replace McClatchy as the Pirates principal owner.