• Leo Kirch (21 October 1926 – 14 July 2011) was a German media entrepreneur who founded the Kirch Group. Kirch was born in Volkach, Bavaria, but shortly...
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    KirchGruppe (KirchGroup) was a German media group founded by Leo Kirch in the 1950s. It was the dominant buyer and seller of TV programming rights in Germany...
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  • GmbH & Co. was founded in 1959 in Munich by Leo Kirch. In 2004, two years after the collapse of Kirch's media holdings, the company was acquired by Jan...
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  • Kirch Leo Kirch (1926–2011), German media entrepreneur Oliver Kirch (born 1982), German footballer Patrick Vinton Kirch, American archaeologist Kirch...
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    cent of the corporation, the rest was held by the Bavarian film trader Leo Kirch, the Burda family and several minor investors. Subsequently she became...
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  • competitor – Arena. Premiere was the brainchild of the former television czar, Leo Kirch. He went into insolvency after a decade of losing viewers from his subscription...
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    bank), Leo Kirch (a former media executive in litigation with the bank), and the Munich law firm of Bub Gauweiler & Partner, which represented Kirch. According...
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  • witnesses in a court case brought by the heirs of Leo Kirch against Deutsche Bank over the insolvency of the Kirch Group. In April 2016, the Deutsche Bank board...
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  • Makudi additionally received a payment by a company of German media mogul Leo Kirch, who also paid millions for usually worthless TV rights for friendly matches...
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    Rothmund (1831–1906), ophthalmologist and professor Leo Kirch (1926–2011), media entrepreneur who led the Kirch Group Marlies Dumbsky (born 1985), German Wine...
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  • Jobs - Pixar, US Jeffrey Katzenberg - DreamWorks Animation SKG, US Leo Kirch - KirchMedia, Germany José Roberto Marinho - Globo, Brazil Roberto Irineu...
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    Matthias (2003). Medien und Ökonomie (in German). VS Verlag. p. 153. Leo Kirch und Silvio Berlusconi setzten 1999 eine schon bewährte Zusammenarbeit...
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  • to most of the animated TV shows in the library of the KirchGruppe, the Media Group of Leo Kirch, where Thomas Haffa started his career. 1997 - EM.TV went...
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    experience in the television business. He was appointed at the request of Leo Kirch to legally secure the fusion between Sat.1 and ProSieben. In March 2000...
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    generalist channel Tele 5 on 11 January 1988. Tele 5 was later sold to Leo Kirch, and became Deutsches Sportfernsehen (DSF, now Sport1) on 1 January 1993...
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  • company established by Leo Kirch and Herbert von Karajan in 1964. Cosmotel broke up over the issue of artistic control, and Kirch created a new company...
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    particular increasingly took market share from Leo Kirch's German television networks, which prompted Kirch to buy the channel in 1992, and rebrand it DSF...
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    of Axel Springer, having sought a majority in Axel Springer alongside Leo Kirch; Hubert Burda challenged the legality of the transaction, asserting a...
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  • Baháʼí author (died 2019) 20 October – Ursula Happe, swimmer 21 October – Leo Kirch, media entrepreneur (died 2011) 26 October – Bernhard Klodt, footballer...
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    real estate mogul Jürgen Schneider after his arrest, or in 1997 with Leo Kirch in the aftermath of his media group's collapse. The Focus concept was...
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    produced 52 one-hour episodes of the TV show Fun which aired daily on the Leo Kirch Network DSF in Germany. Milio's first full-credit role as a producer came...
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  • doubted the creditworthiness of Leo Kirch. When Kirch's media group, Kirch Group, went bankrupt shortly afterwards, Kirch blamed Breuer and the bank and...
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  • American Navy admiral. Otia Ioseliani, 81, Georgian writer and dramatist. Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur. Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer...
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    he founded his own company and took over a consultancy contract from Leo Kirch for his television station. Within this role, he was also asked to manage...
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  • Kulturstiftung, the Volkswagen Foundation and a grant by the media entrepreneur, Leo Kirch. At the end of 2003 the Rectors’ Council elected the first president and...
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  • owned a trucker radio station and was advisor to media moguls such as Leo Kirch (Kirch Gruppe). After his career in radio and TV, Hammer turned author in...
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  • Be Released This August". LeakyNews. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2012-11-11. Kirch, Claire (October 14, 2010). "Riordan Debuts New Series in Austin". Publishers...
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  • cable. Spring The French group Canal Plus gets the 90% of Tele+, ousting Leo Kirch. The Italian versions of Bloomberg and Hallmark are added to Tele+ Satellite...
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  • Obituary". mccallbros.com. July 11, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2014. "PASSINGS: Leo Kirch, Roland Petit, Cal Montney, Lee Vines, Googie Withers, Frank Billerbeck"...
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    testimony in a long-running lawsuit over the collapse of Kirch Group, bank client Leo Kirch’s media conglomerate. By 2016, Fitschen and the others were...
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