In 1996, the Britannica was bought by Jacqui Safra at well below its estimated value, owing to the company's financial difficulties.

In 1996, Time Warner bought Turner Broadcasting System, and as a result, the pre-1950 sound films and the pre-August 1948 cartoon library ( excluding the B & W Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies which WB bought back as it merged with Seven Arts but including the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies, save Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

In 1996 AAPT bought 40 % of Cellular One Communications, followed by QNET Communications.

" In 1996, Fox bought SportSouth and renamed it " FSN South ".

In 1996, Martinair bought a 40 % stake in Colombian cargo carrier TAMPA Cargo, based in Medellín, which it increased to 58 % in 2003.

In April 1996 there was another refinancing and in March 1998 O ' Reilly bought the other 54 % of the company for £ 30 million, and assumed the company's debt.

Closed in 1987, the complex was bought by Cummings Properties in 1996, and developed into a campus of hi-tech companies and medical offices.

Originally bought by CBS, the program was first broadcast on UPN during January 1996, and soon became the most watched show broadcast on the television network.

The airline bought Transwede Airways in 1996, the second-largest domestic airline in Sweden.

Joe's, a sporting goods and automotive parts retailer was based in Wilsonville until bankruptcy in 2009, as was drugstore chain Thrifty PayLess until it was bought by Rite Aid in 1996, and video rental retailer Movie Gallery and its subsidiary Hollywood Video were as well until bankruptcy in 2010.

The company bought Leger Gallery for $ 3. 3 million in 1996, and merged it with Spink to become Spink-Leger.

In 1996, Christie's bought a town house on East 59th Street in Manhattan as a separate gallery where experts could show clients art in complete privacy to conduct private treaty sales.

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

In early 1996, IOS was bought by SSA ( System Software Associates, Inc ), who saw great potential in Newi.

Then in 1996, Time Warner bought out Turner, giving WB ownership of the Popeye series, although technically speaking these two franchises are owned by the various units of WB ( Turner and DC, respectively ).

ABC was bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1996, which began airing all Disney-made programming by 1997 and canceled non-Disney made productions ( with the notable exception of The Bugs and Tweety Show, which continued to air until Warner Bros. ended the show in 2000 ).

Tiki Data was bought by Merkantildata in 1996, and ceased to exist from that point on.

In 1996, Sterling was bought by the Norwegian shipping company Fred.

Since Time Warner bought Turner Broadcasting in 1996, this policy has largely been upheld, but has also shown signs of weakening.

* 1996: Popular bought American Midwest Bank for its two branches in suburban Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb that was drawing Hispanics.

: Outboard Marine Corp. bought the division in 1990 and produced the last Grumman-brand canoe in 1996.

Mandelson bought a home in Notting Hill in 1996 with the assistance of an interest-free loan of £ 373, 000 from Geoffrey Robinson, a millionaire Labour MP who was also in the Government and subject to an inquiry into his business dealings by Mandelson's department.

* 1996 MuZ was bought by the Malaysian Corporation Hong Leong Group

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

The remaining three titles were won by Branko Cikatić of Croatia in 1993, Andy Hug of Switzerland in 1996, and Mark Hunt of New Zealand in 2001.

In April 1996, Apple discontinued the Macintosh LC 580 ( released in 1995 ), the last remaining desktop model of the 68k-based Macintosh line.

The album was a commercial failure, and, following Jem Finer's decision to leave the band in 1996, the remaining members decided it was time to call it quits.

* The Wake ( collecting The Sandman # 70 – 75, 1995 – 1996, ISBN 1-56389-287-1 ): The conclusion of the series, wrapping up the remaining loose ends in a three-issue " wake " sequence, followed by three self-contained stories.

Between 1996 and 1998, BTR sold the remaining Dunlop companies.

Cunard's cargo fleet was sold off between 1989 and 1991, with a single container ship, the second Atlantic Conveyor, remaining under Cunard ownership until 1996.

The borrowing for the water system exhausted the town's assessed valuation and bonding limit, and began proceeding to annex the remaining of the Bethlehem plant in 1996.

Since 1996 – 97, teams involved in European competition during the season have received a bye to the third round ; the remaining Premier League teams enter at the second round, and the remaining Football League teams enter at the first round.

The last remaining crypto-Jewish community in Belmonte officially returned to Judaism in the 1970s and opened a synagogue in 1996.

Despite a politically turbulent mandate ( in 1994, the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia left the coalition ), the Party gained votes in 1996, remaining the largest party in the government.

While remaining sharply critical of Glen Clark's NDP government, Parker spearheaded highly controversial negotiations to form municipal electoral alliances with NDP-affiliated parties in 1998 after vote-splitting all but wiped out leftist representation at the local level in Vancouver and Victoria in 1996.

While JTS announced plans to continue both brands, within a few weeks of the merger becoming official on July 30, 1996, the majority of former Atari employees were dismissed and Atari's remaining inventory was sold to liquidators.

In Bulgaria, the number of breeding sites fell from 77 between 1950 and 1981 to just 14 in the 1996 to 2006 period, and the number of pairs in the remaining colonies were much smaller.

In 1994 most of the company's divisions were sold by then-owners General Dynamics to McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, with the remaining components deactivated in 1996.

In 1996, General Dynamics deactivated all of the remaining legal entities of the Convair Division.

The remaining members released a fourth album called Gorgeous, and after that, did some remix work for David Bowie, Soundgarden, and other performers, before returning with the album entitled Don Solaris in 1996.

The league approached the 1996 Grey Cup in dire financial straits: the American expansion had been a failure, the 120-year-old Ottawa Rough Riders franchise ceased operations at the conclusion of the regular season, and out of the eight remaining teams, seven had lost money and two required direct assistance from the league to stay afloat.

Most of the remaining seven Mann songs were demos and works in progress ; " Wise Up ," which is at the center of a sequence in which all of the characters sing the song, was originally written for the 1996 film Jerry Maguire.

" In 1996, a video was released containing the first three remaining episodes.

In 1996, IFE sold its remaining 61 % share to Flextech, giving them full ownership of the venture, and subsequently in February 1997 Flextech rebranded the channel to Challenge TV, focusing mainly on game shows.

The remaining part was demolished in 1996.

The remaining songs recorded for The Charlatans ' debut album during the Kama Sutra sessions remained unreleased until they were officially issued for the first time by Big Beat Records in 1996, on The Amazing Charlatans album.

The owner of Schenk, Károly Schenk, was allowed to sell off his remaining toy figures only in Hungary until March 1996.