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Paddy Power was founded in 1988 by a merger of the forty shops of three Irish bookmakers: Stewart Kenny, David Power, and John Corcoran. [1] Stewart Kenny and Vincent O'Reilly had sold Kenny O'Reilly Bookmakers to Coral in 1986, and then opened ten shops of their own by 1988; Kenny was group CEO from 1988 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 to 2003 ...
The business is owned 52% by the former Paddy Power shareholders and 48% by the former Betfair shareholders. [8] The merger was completed on 2 February 2016. [ 9 ] On 5 April 2016, it was announced that 650 jobs in the United Kingdom and Ireland would be lost at the company.
David Henry Power (16 January 1947 – 8 July 2024) was an Irish bookmaker. Power's grandfather started bookmaking in Tramore, County Waterford in 1896, having earlier worked as a draper. [1] The business passed to his son, Paddy, who died suddenly in 1963, leaving it to his son David. At 16, he was too young to take up the betting licence.
WXZX (105.7 FM) is a commercial radio station that is licensed to serve Hilliard, Ohio and serves the Columbus metropolitan area.Owned by iHeartMedia, the station broadcasts an alternative rock format.
WCBZ-CD was founded as W22AE in Marion, Ohio, on April 17, 1989.The station then changed its call letters to WBKA-LP in 1995. In 2004, the station was acquired from low-power broadcaster Crawford Broadcasting by Metro Video Productions, and was granted Class A status, thus changing its callsign to WBKA-CA.
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In 1949 WHKC's power was increased to 5,000 watts day and night. The station became WTVN on July 23, 1954, when it was acquired by Radio Cincinnati Inc., which later become Taft Broadcasting. [17] The sale to the Taft family made 610 AM a sister station to WTVN-TV (channel 6); in 1960 Taft launched an FM station in Columbus, WTVN-FM (96.3, now ...
WCKX was originally assigned the WJZA call sign on November 23, 1993. On December 29, 1997, the WCKX call sign assigned to 106.3 MHz ("Power 106") in London, Ohio (now WJYD) was reassigned to 107.5 FM, while the WJZA call sign was dropped and later picked up by 103.5 FM in Pickerington ("Smooth Jazz 103.5 FM").