* 1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.

In 1998, General Motors ( GM ) purchased the brand name and marketed three vehicles: the original Hummer H1, based on the Humvee ; and the H2 and H3 models that were based on smaller, civilian-market GM platforms.

In 1998 China purchased the discarded Ukrainian ship Varyag and began retrofitting it for naval deployment.

In 1998 the Belgian Air Force purchased three B-Hunter UAV-systems, each consisting of 6 aircraft and two ground control stations.

In 1998, under the company Demas, NED co-founder Cameron W. Jones ( original and current owner of the Synclavier trademark and software ) collaborated with ex-employee Brian S. George ( owner of Demas, the company that purchased all of NED's hardware and technical assets ) and original co-founding partner Sydney Alonso to develop an emulator designed to run Synclavier software for Apple Computer's Macintosh computer systems and hardware designed to share the core processing with the later generation of Apple G3 computers giving enhanced features and greater speed to the system.

Steinway has acquired some of its suppliers in order to maintain high quality: the German manufacturer Kluge in Wuppertal, which supplies the keyboards, was bought in December 1998 ; in November 1999, Steinway purchased the company which supplies its cast iron plates, O. S.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

In July 1998, Doughty Hanson & Co purchased BTR Aerospace Group and renamed it Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group.

Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group Ltd was formed in 1998 from the assets of BTR Aerospace Group when they were purchased by Doughty Hanson & Co.

Monsanto first entered the maize seed business when it purchased 40 % of DEKALB in 1996 ; it purchased the remainder of the corporation in 1998.

In 1998 Monsanto purchased Cargill's seed business, which gave it access to sales and distribution facilities in 51 countries.

It purchased the remainder of Dekalb in 1998.

Grainger purchased of land in Mettawa ( 1993 – 1998 ), then disconnected from the Village to become part of unincorporated Lake County.

In 1998, the Mackinaw Depot was purchased by a local family and turned into a floral shop and tea room.

Sixteen thousand acres ( 65 km² ) were purchased along the Whetstone River ( now known as the Olentangy River ) at $ 1. 50 per acre ( McCormick 1998: 19-27 ).

The 3 / 4 acre Lyon Creek Park was created in the late 1990s on land purchased by the city in 1998, but forbids access to the water.

The theater closed in 1998 and was purchased by Opera Pacifica in 2004 and underwent initial stages of restoration.

Avalon Hill was made a division of Wizards of the Coast, in late 1999 ; the company had been purchased by Hasbro in the summer of 1998.

The first, unveiled on 12 April 1998, consists of photos of the two behind a pyramid-shaped display that holds a wine glass still smudged with lipstick from Diana's last dinner as well as a ring Dodi purchased the day before they died .< ref >

In May 1998, François Pinault's holding company, Groupe Artémis S. A., first bought 29. 1 percent of the company for $ 243. 2 million, and subsequently purchased the rest of it in a deal that valued the entire company at $ 1. 2 billion.

In 1998, Canada purchased four Upholder class submarines and a suite of trainers from the Royal Navy to replace their decommissioned Oberon class submarines.

On the verge of closure in the bankruptcy proceeding, Tyler and Brent Cassity of the Missouri funeral home family purchased the now property in 1998 for $ 375, 000.

Founded in 1963, it grew to be the second-largest long-distance provider in the U. S. It was purchased by WorldCom in 1998 and became MCI WorldCom, with the name afterwards being shortened to WorldCom in 2000.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

* 1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.

Radio broadcasting stations: AM 420, FM 447, shortwave 56 ( 1998 ).

AM 0 ( stopped broadcasting in 2004 ), FM 4, shortwave 0 ( 1998 )

By January 1998, the WWF began broadcasting more violence, swearing, and more edgy angles in its attempt to compete with WCW.

In Switzerland a system known as " wire broadcasting " ( Telefonrundspruch in German ) transmitted AM signals over telephone lines in the longwave band until 1998, when it was shut down.

On April 1, 1998, NHK World Television started broadcasting.

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

Although no broadcaster or government has acknowledged operating one of these stations, a 1998 article in The Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry ( the government department that, at that time, regulated radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom ) as saying, " These stations are what you suppose they are.

In October 1998, Smith was the subject of a story on his university's public broadcasting station.

In February 1998, the American Spanish-language broadcast network Telemundo began broadcasting her show Laura en América on its affiliates.

The station began broadcasting on 18 October 1998.

The move came as during the 1999 – 2000 season, The WB dropped to sixth place in the ratings behind UPN, losing 19 % of its household audience ; network executives attributed the ratings decline in large part due to WGN-TV's decision to remove WB network programming from its national superstation feed after deciding the network's national distribution was large enough that broadcasting its programming outside of Chicago was no longer necessary, reducing The WB's potential household audience by 10 million homes ; this expansion was due to a series of affiliation deals for the network with station groups such as Sinclair Broadcast Group in the years following The WB's launch, as well as the network launching The WB 100 + Station Group, a national cable-only service that debuted in September 1998 serving areas with a Nielsen market ranking of # 99 and above that did not have enough broadcast stations to support an over-the-air affiliate ( WGN-TV continued to carry WB programming over-the-air in the Chicago market and on cable providers in northeastern Illinois and far northwestern Indiana until the network shut down in 2006 ).

Competition from Sky Digital launched in 1998 was too great and ITV Digital ceased broadcasting on 1 May 2002.

The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, Division G of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999,, abolished the U. S. Information Agency effective October 1, 1999, when its information ( but not broadcasting ) and exchange functions were folded into the Department of State under the newly created Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy.

Mr. Ron Lake started work on GML in the fall of 1998, following earlier work on XML encodings for radio broadcasting.

* ZDTV starts broadcasting – News. com, May 11, 1998

The station's broadcasting license was cancelled in 1998 to allow New York's WWRL to be upgraded ; at the time it had been known as WQQW.

Caray's broadcasting legacy was extended to a third generation, as his grandson Chip Caray replaced Harry as the Cubs ' play-by-play announcer from 1998 to 2004.

The channel launched on March 29, 1998, broadcasting comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters like ITV and Channel 4.

Until 1998 southeast of Stargard Szczeciński, there was a facility for mediumwave broadcasting at 15 ° 7 ' E and 53 ° 18 ' N used for foreign broadcasting on 1503 kHz with 300 kW.