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Raycom Sports was started in July 1979 by Rick and Dee Ray in Charlotte. [1] [2] Rick Ray was a program manager at WCCB in Charlotte [3] when he proposed that WCCB, which had become an independent station a year earlier after losing its ABC affiliation, produce more basketball games.
League City is located 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Houston, and the same distance northwest of Galveston. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 53.13 square miles (137.61 km 2 ), of which 51.36 square miles (133.02 km 2 ) is land and 1.77 square miles (4.58 km 2 ), or 3.22%, is water.
He moved to Houston in 1980, and in March 1984, Crane borrowed $10,000 from his sister and founded Eagle USA Airfreight, an air-freight logistics business. [10] [11] Eagle USA Airfreight later became Eagle Global Logistics, and then EGL, Inc., and moved into the supply-chain management and information-services business.
Toyota Center is an indoor arena located in Houston.It is named after the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota.The arena is home to the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and it was once the home of the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL), and the Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current status Birmingham–Tuscaloosa–Anniston, AL: WBRC: 6: 2009 [44] –2019: Fox affiliate owned by Gray Television: Dothan–Ozark, AL: WDFX-TV: 34: 2003–2019 [A] Fox affiliate owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group: Huntsville–Decatur, AL: WAFF: 48: 1996–2019 [B] NBC affiliate owned ...
In February 2022, $75 million in capital was raised by the league, with the increase valuing the league at $475 million. 16 percent in equity in the league was given to investors as part of the deal. In mid-2022, Engelbert said that the WNBA hoped to identify one or two cities for expansion either by the start of that year's playoffs or by the ...
Phonoscope Communications is a broadband and communications provider with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. The company's infrastructure spans eight counties and reaches distant locations such as Baytown, Galveston, Freeport, Magnolia, Richmond-Rosenberg, Splendora, Texas City and Willis, Texas.
CityCentre is located on the former site of Town & Country Mall, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m 2) shopping center which competed with neighboring Memorial City Mall from 1983 to 2004. [6] Poor accessibility to the site due to the construction of the Sam Houston Tollway , as well as a local recession in the late 1980s, resulted in the ...