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.
Owner of CNN. CNN is technically owned by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS). This means that, unsurprisingly, CNN is owned by Ted Turner, who of course founded and owns the collection of cable networks. Today TBS owns many channels domestically and internationally, along with many popular websites (such as SI.com, NBA.com, etc.). Ted Turner. Turner is the man behind TBS and thus CNN.