The proposed name, Tien ( meaning ten in Dutch ), was disputed by competitor SBS Broadcasting, owner of the TV10 brand.

Dutch firm Akzo Nobel ( owner of Crown Berger paints ) bid £ 7. 2 billion (€ 10. 66 billion or $ 14. 5 billion US ) for ICI in June 2007.

On one occasion, after visiting the home of a wealthy Dutch merchant, he liked the place so much that he had the owner evicted so he could take up residence there.

Van Vliet was born Don Glen Vliet in Glendale, California, on January 15, 1941, to Glen Alonzo Vliet, a service station owner of Dutch ancestry from Kansas, and Willie Sue Vliet ( née Warfield ), who was from Arkansas.

* Dutch investment company, main owner of NRC Handelsblad

It includes several distinctive residences such as the Judge Ira Fields home ( 1897 ); the cut stone Palumbo House, and Italian villa-inspired house built by master stonemason John Palumbo ; the stately Salyers House Bed and Breakfast, built for Confederate States of America Col. Logan Henry Neal Salyer in the early 20th century ; and a Dutch Colonial style home ordered from the Sears Modern Home Catalog and delivered to its owner, in pieces, by railcar in 1928.

Literally, it means " blue-field ", or " blue pasture fields ", likely a reference to the blue and yellow shields hung on Pieter's ships ( a common 14th century Dutch method of identifying the owner ).

Weston Cut is a man made channel, opened in 1727, for boats to approach and pass through Weston Lock, which created an island between the cut and the river weir, which became known as Dutch Island after the owner of the brass mill established on the riverside in the early 18th century.

Prorail is a part of NS Railinfratrust ( The Dutch railway infrastructure owner ).

Claire's Dutch father, a friend of van Gogh whose clients included Toulouse Lautrec, was the owner of a prestigious picture framing company near the Place Vendôme in Paris, and he brought Georges-Emmanuel into the family business.

Remsen, a New York City merchant and owner of Henry Remsen Jr. & Co., was the descendant of some of the earliest Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam.

Property tax ( Dutch: Onroerendezaakbelasting ( OZB )) is levied on homes on a municipal basis in two parts: for the one who lives in the house, and for the owner of the house.

* Jan Hope ( 1737 – 1784 ), also called John Hope, Dutch banker and owner of Groenendaal park

The Foundation became the legal owner of the Peace Palace since the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which is based there along with its library, could not own the building under Dutch law.

The oldest running 7A is probably number AZ-00-23, which was, until 1 September 2006, in possession of a Dutch owner and is now with a Slovenian owner.

In 2006, Sotheby's acquired a Dutch dealership, Noortman Master Paintings, from its owner, Robert Noortman, for $ 82. 5 million ($ 56. 5 million worth of Sotheby ’ s stock and assumption of more than $ 26 million in gallery debt, including $ 11. 7 million owed to the auction house ).

In the Dutch telephone market, KPN is the owner of the fixed telephone operations ( FLO ) network and is the market leader in mobile network operator ( MNO ), with the brands KPN Mobile and Telfort and as a mobile virtual network operator ( MVNO ) under the brand names Simyo, Ay Yildiz, Ortel Mobile and Hi.

In May 2009, the company board agreed to a purchase offer from Dutch manufacturer Philips, owner of the Senseo coffee system, subject to shareholder and bank approval.

According to the Dutch author H. Hoetink in his book El Pueblo Dominicano, 1850-1900, his father owned two sugar plantations by 1882 and by 1893 was the owner of the sugar mill " Angelina ".

The owner and chairman is a Georgian businessman, which makes Vitesse the first Dutch football club owned by a foreigner.

Another Dutch couple, former owner of the elevator company Mohringer Mr. Fonkert in Haarlem has lived there since 1982.

It was taken on a long lease by George III from the descendants of Sir Richard Levett, a powerful merchant and the former Lord Mayor of the City of London, who had purchased it from the grandson of the original owner, a Dutch merchant who had built the house in 1663.

Johannes " Joop " Adrianus van den Ende ( born 23 February 1942 ) is a Dutch media tycoon, theatrical producer, co-founder of Endemol and founder / owner of Stage Entertainment.

One of the funniest intentional moments on the show was when Franklin interviewed the owner of the Dutch liqueur company, known in that country as Wyn and Fokking.

In the 2007 Princo Corporation, Ltd v Koninklijke Philips Electronics case before the Court of Genoa, Italy, the Dutch company Philips, owner of patents on CD-R technology, requested and obtained an order of precautionary seizure over all Princo ’ s movable and immovable property, including its bank accounts, with a view to ensuring the recovery of damages to be awarded at the end of the liability proceedings.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media.

* In 2006, the Turkish government prosecuted Fatih Tas, owner of the Aram editorial house, two editors and the translator of the revised ( 2001 ) edition of Manufacturing Consent for " stirring hatred among the public " ( per Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code ) and for " denigrating the national identity " of Turkey ( per Article 301 ), because that edition ’ s introduction addresses the Turkish news media ’ s reportage of governmental suppression of the Kurdish populace in the 1990s ; they were acquitted.

** A judge in Australia orders the arrest of media tycoon Christopher Skase, former owner of the Seven Network, after he fails to give evidence in a liquidator's examination of failed shipbuilding company Lloyds Ships Holdings, an associate of Skase's Qintex Australia Ltd.

The government said the frequencies would be reallocated to community media, and passed a law limiting ownership of radio and television licences to three per private owner.

Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter ( Baron De Reuter ) ( July 21, 1816 – February 25, 1899 ), a German-born British entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, since 2008 part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate.

In certain markets, a Fox affiliate may outsource news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market ( either due to insufficient funds for production of their own newscasts or the station being operated under a duopoly or some form of an operational agreement with a major network affiliate ); while this is less common in the 50 largest television markets, the largest station in regards to market size using this arrangement is WPGH-TV / Pittsburgh ( in the 23rd largest U. S. media market ), which has broadcast a 10 p. m. newscast that is produced by Cox Media-owned NBC affiliate WPXI since the 2006 shutdown of WPGH's in-house news department by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group after the company's News Central division folded.

This is best seen in the " Billionaire Ted " parodies of early 1996 ( a reference to WCW's owner and patron, media mogul Ted Turner ) which culminated in a " rasslin '" match during the warm-up to WrestleMania XII.

Despite being ridiculed for the letter by the media, Cleveland fans embraced the owner, even offering to pay the $ 100, 000 fine given by the NBA.

Westhead was fired shortly after Johnson's criticisms, and although Lakers ' owner Jerry Buss stated that Johnson's comments did not factor into the decision, Johnson was vilified by the national media and booed both on the road and at home.

In US broadcasting, many major media conglomerates have purchased smaller broadcasters outright, but have not changed the broadcast licenses to reflect this, resulting in stations that are ( for example ) still licensed to Jacor and Citicasters, effectively making them subsidiary companies of their owner Clear Channel Communications.

The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.

* Kalanidhi Maran-founder and Chairman of Sun Network, one of India's largest media houses, majority owner of SpiceJet Airways Private Limited

Lucas Tomás Muñiz Ramírez ( February 4, 1922 – January 15, 2009 ), better known as Tommy Muñiz, was a Puerto Rican comedy and drama actor, media producer, businessman and network owner.

In this story Rastapopoulos becomes the Marquis di Gorgonzola, a media baron, airline owner, and arms dealer, who entertains influential people on board his luxury yacht.

Nations such as Italy and Canada are often accused of possessing an Imperial media structure, based on the fact that much of their media is controlled by one corporation or owner.

In February 2006, the group became 100 % owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA when Vivendi purchased the last 20 % from Matsushita, the group's sole owner from 1990 to 1995 and co-owner from 1995 to 2006.

At D ' Amato's final press conference as head coach, all feuds have been resolved or at least put on hold and he leaves on a positive note, being thanked by owner Christina Pagniacci ( Cameron Diaz ) and the media for his contributions to the team.

Between 1969 and 1970, Australian media owner Rupert Murdoch purchased a controlling interest in LWT, following an altercation on a live LWT show presented by David Frost ( coincidentally the first live colour programme shown on ITV ).

Interviews with Matt DiDomizio, owner and developer of the fronton in Berlin, Connecticut, and various other media sources that covered their Grand Opening on May 8, 2010, confirm that Churruca, a living legend of the game, and Joey Cornblit, one of the greatest American players of all time, threw out the first and second ball, respectively, at the ceremony.

* Modern Times Group, a Swedish media company and owner of Viasat and Metro International.

The media repeated rumors of coarse and even criminal behavior by Jordan, including supposed cocaine usage and anonymous sex at the infamous Studio 54 disco in New York City, by the club's owner Steve Rubell.