The death benefit is a lump sum of cash paid out by the life insurance company when you die. If youâve ever heard someone say, âI took out a one million dollar life insurance policy,â that one million dollars is the death benefit. The beneficiary is the person or organization that will receive the death benefit.
KHON signed on in 1952 as KONA-TV, an NBC affiliate owned by Herbert Richards. The Honolulu Advertiser purchased the station in 1954, and in 1956 the station was sold to Pacific and Southern Broadcasting, forerunner of Combined Communications. In 1965 the call letters were changed to the current KHON-TV.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Discovery Cable Stations is owned by Discovery Communications. Discovery Communications is a publicly listed joint-venture. The JV was started by John Malone (Liberty Media), Advance/Newhouse (e.g. Conde Naste, GQ, Wired), Cox Communications and the original CEO (John Hendricks).You can own part of Discovery Communications through Discovery Holdings, which Liberty Media (LMG.A) spun off.Like its progentor, it has two classes of stock (DISCA and DISCB). Discovery Holdings is listed on NASDAQ.iscovery Communications Inc. (DCI) is an American global media and entertainment company that began as a single channel, the Discovery Channel, launched in 1985.