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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
On 29 November 2009, BBC News Channel broadcast claims by Denis Avey that he smuggled himself into Monowitz concentration camp in 1944. These claims were presented as fact on the BBC website [ 120 ] and became the subject of the best-selling book The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz , co-authored by Avey and BBC journalist Rob Broomby.
v. t. e. Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising. [ 1]
Channel 4 News. Channel 4 News is the name of Channel 4 's main evening news programme. The editor is Esme Wren, appointed in 2022. [ 1] The programme is presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman, Matt Frei, Jackie Long and Fatima Manji and is on the air Monday to Thursday from 7:00 to 7:55 pm, Friday from 7:00 to 7:30 pm, and at variable ...
TV. Channel 4 (previously 4oD and All 4) is a video on demand service from Channel Four Television Corporation, [ 1] free of charge for most content and funded by advertising. [ 2] The service is available in the UK and Ireland; viewers are not required to have a TV licence —required for live viewing and the BBC iPlayer on-demand service ...
Channel Four Television Corporation is a British state-owned media company which runs 12 television channels and a streaming service. [ 3] Unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities. [ 4] Its original and principal activity is the British national television network Channel 4 .
v. t. e. Station X is a British television documentary series detailing the story of how Germany's Enigma code was broken. It was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999. [1] John Smithson was executive producer. It was accompanied by the "Channel 4 Books" publication Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (1998), authored by Michael Smith which ...
The Box was a television channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland, owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It primarily broadcast music videos and music-related programs. On 29 January 2024, Channel 4 announced in a press release that The Box was among various sister channels that would be closing some time in 2024.