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3 unusual facts about Chris Craft


Chris Craft

Christine Craft, attorney, radio talk show host, television news anchor

Chris-Craft, current corporation manufacturing Chris-Craft boats

Chris-Craft Boats, historical company purchased by NAFI (later Chris-Craft Industries)


Porthleven

Former motor racing driver Chris Craft, who competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race for over a decade, including a third-placed finish in 1976, as well as two races in Formula One, was born in Porthleven.


see also

Chris-Craft

For the NASA flight director, see Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.

Chris-Craft Boats

Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst.

Chris-Craft Commander

Chris-Craft Commanders are a range of cruisers built by Chris-Craft Industries.

Chris-Craft Industries

Chris-Craft Industries formed BHC, Inc. to hold its two existing television stations, KCOP in Los Angeles and KPTV in Portland, Oregon, both placed within BHC's Chris-Craft Television, Inc. subsidiary.

Chris-Craft - a company that reunited the brand with the manufacturing division.

KTXH

Channel 20 became an owned-and-operated station of the United Paramount Network (owned by Chris-Craft Industries in a programming partnership with Viacom, and later co-owned in a joint venture with Chris-Craft when it bought a 50% share in the network in 1996) upon the network's January 16, 1995 launch.

WUTB

Chris-Craft ran the station out of then-sister station WWOR-TV's facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey and fed the station's programming to its transmitter site in Baltimore; this included WWOR's local news coverage of the September 11 attacks.