The switch was partorganization.organization_board_membershipan unusual deal between the public radio station and commercial station WGMS ( FM ) , which abandoned the classical music format it had aired for decades after an attempt to sell WGMS to Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder failed .
It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General , Carl Lindner 's American Financial and , most recently , Bertelsmann ; it became partorganization.organization_board_membershipRandom House in 1998 , when Bertelsmann purchased it to form Bantam Doubleday Dell .
Joel Glazer is partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe Glazer family , who control First Allied Corporation and the Zapata Corporation , the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL , and England 's Manchester United Football Club .
Avram `` Avi '' Glazer is partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe Glazer family , who control First Allied Corporation , the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL , and who own the English soccer club Manchester United .
Fox International Channels Benelux ( FICB ) is a subsidiary of the Fox International Channels , which is a partorganization.organization_board_membershipRupert Murdoch 's global media conglomerate 21st Century Fox .
Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation had founded Fox News Channel in 1996 , in partorganization.organization_board_membershipcounter what it contended was systemic liberal bias on the part of other U.S. news outlets .
The sector is mainly controlled by four foreign groups : the Irish Communicorp Group , SBS Broadcasting Group ( since 2007 partorganization.organization_board_membershipProSiebenSat.1 Media AG ) , US Emmis Communications , and News Corporation Group ( owned by Rupert Murdoch ) .
He took partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe Risings of 1848 and 1849 along with James Fintan Lalor and both James Stephens and John O'Mahony , who would go on to establish the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Ireland and the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States .
The committee produced a report on 15 February 1923 recommending that four of the largest existing airlines , The Instone Air Line Company , owned by shipping magnate Samuel Instone , Noel Pemberton Billing 's British Marine Air Navigation ( partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe Supermarine flying-boat company ) , the Daimler Airway , under the management of George Edward Woods and Handley Page Transport Co Ltd. , should be merged .
Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group , partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs , who became its majority shareholder .
Five of these independent states share Queen Elizabeth II as their respective head of state , making them partorganization.organization_board_membershipa global grouping known as the Commonwealth realms ; in addition , all monarchies of Oceania are members of the Commonwealth of Nations .
However , it remains partorganization.organization_board_membershipthe Commonwealth of Nations , and remains a constitutional monarchy , with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Antigua and Barbuda .