NTA changed its name to Republic Pictures ( which was previously the name of a minor film studio, whose backlog had been sold to NTA ) in 1986, sold to Spelling Entertainment, Inc. in 1994, and was sold to Viacom in 1999, hence all the material sold to U. M .& M.

*** Absorbed Viacom Enterprises in 1995, and Rysher Entertainment and Worldvision Enterprises in 1999

In the 1970s, the CBS Films properties were spun off to create Viacom, which itself re-merged with CBS in 1999.

Today, Paramount ( through Republic, which the studio's parent company, Viacom, acquired in 1999 ), in a twist of irony, now owns the original elements to its 1927 – September 1950 output they themselves originally released ( in addition to the April 1962 – 1967 non-Comic King shorts ( except Frog's Legs, starring Little Lulu, which Paramount still owns ) they have retained the rights to and the 1961 Noveltoon, Alvin's Solo Flight, also starring Little Lulu ).

The Early Show began on November 1, 1999 ( around the time Viacom purchased CBS ) when CBS executives successfully lured former Today Show host Bryant Gumbel to head up the broadcast, teamed with newcomer Jane Clayson.

* 1999 – sells itself to Viacom, Inc.

: In 1999, Viacom made CBS an offer of $ 37 billion to buy them out.

Under Viacom, the Paramount Stations Group continued to build with more station acquisitions, eventually leading to Viacom's acquisition of its former parent, the CBS network, in 1999.

In 1995, five years after Paley's death, CBS was bought by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and, in 1999, by Viacom, which itself was once a subsidiary of CBS.

In 1999, CBS Corporation was merged into Viacom.

On February 10, 2005, it was announced that the Viacom Television Stations Group ( the successor to the Paramount Stations Group as a result of Viacom merging with CBS in 1999 ) was selling WWHO and WNDY-TV ( in the Indianapolis market ) to LIN Television for $ 85 million.

Before its launch, Tele-Communications, Inc. made a failed attempt to acquire a 50 percent stake in Showtime in 1989. there was some debate as to whether Viacom or TCI originally conceived the idea for Encore, a service similar to Flix, that also focused on films from the 1960s to the 1980s until a format change in 1999 in which recent films were added to the mix.

* 1999: Viacom merges with its creator CBS.

* 1999: Viacom acquires 80 % of Spelling Entertainment Group ( Such as Spelling Television ) and Rysher Entertainment's TV holdings.

In 1999, Viacom acquired CBS, assuming ownership of CMT and TNN and folding them into the MTV Networks stable.

The network was called VH1 Country until Memorial Day Weekend 2006 ( launching in 1999 and predating the merger of CBS Cable networks TNN and CMT into Viacom ), complementing that network until Viacom shifted VH1 towards more pop culture programming while using the CMT brand for all of their country music programming.

In 1999, Spelling Entertainment was bought out by Viacom, resulting in Paramount Domestic Television becoming Big Ticket's distributor.

Roger Altman, through Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media in 1999.

After two seasons, John Kent Cooke was unable to raise sufficient funds to permanently purchase the Redskins, and on May 25, 1999, Daniel Snyder gained unanimous approval ( 31 – 0 ) from league owners and bought the franchise for $ 800 million, a deal that was the most expensive team-purchasing deal in sporting history.

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.

In 1999, CDS was bought out by Syntegra ( USA ), a subsidiary of the BT Group, and merged into BT's Global Services organization.

Ximian ( previously called Helix Code, and originally announced as International Gnome Support ) was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October, 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4, 2003.

: The number one reason why Sun bought StarDivision in 1999 was because, at the time, Sun had something approaching forty-two thousand employees.

Their deal began in 1999 and was renewed shortly before the naming of St. Mary's Stadium, to which they also bought the naming rights.

In 1999, a group of investors bought from Champion International Paper for $ 7. 5 million, covering parts of fourteen towns in the county.

In 1999, the Free Press was bought by an Arkansas company, WEHCO Media, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which then bought The Times from the Ochs heirs.

In 2007 Monsanto sued Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman, who in 1999 bought seed for his second planting from a grain elevator-the same elevator that he and others sold their transgenic crops to.

by Timothy Jack Ward,: an open letter to the Clintons about Chappaqua, published shortly after the Clintons bought their Chappaqua house, The New York Times, September 5, 1999

Seeing the continued success of Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, the game and toy giant Hasbro bought Wizards of the Coast in September 1999, for about US $ 325 million.

He is currently the Penguins ' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999.

Nathaniel Dourif Friedman ( born August 6, 1977 ), known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.

Greene King Brewery bought Morland for £ 182 million in 1999, closed the brewery and moved production to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

Stoddart bought much of the old Tyrrell equipment and became a sponsor of Jordan Grand Prix in 1999 ; he also entered two drivers in the Formula 3000 championship.

In 1999 Apollo Leisure was taken over by SFX Entertainment and in 2001 SFX Entertainment was bought by Clear Channel Entertainment, part of the US based multinational.

In 1999 the company was bought by the American-owned distribution company Western Power Distribution and was split into two.

Adding to its offerings of medical products, the company bought Ballard Medical Products in 1999 for $ 744 million and examination glove maker Safeskin in 2000 for about $ 800 million.

Chryss made a naming gift in her husband's honour in 1999 with the O ' Reilly Theater in Pittsburgh, and he bought her a famous Jackie Onassis diamond ring for over $ US2 million.

Later in his presidency, in 1999, Clinton criticized the way the policy was implemented, saying he did not think any serious person could say it was not " out of whack.

The framework for the Union of Russia and Belarus was set out in the Treaty On the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus ( 1996 ), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter ( 1997 ), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State ( 1999 ).

Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Cuba joined the Latin American Integration Association becoming the tenth member ( out of 12 ) on 26 August 1999.

Beginning in 1991, two more census have been carried out in Azerbaijan: one in 1999 and one in 2009.

In 1999, Canion admitted that his ouster was justified, saying " I was burned out.

The first issue came out in 1999 under the editorial direction of founder Batya Weinbaum.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

At the 2004 election, the National Front led by Abdullah had a massive victory, virtually wiping out the PAS and Keadilan, although the DAP recovered the seats it had lost in 1999.

** KFOR, from 1999 ( Kosovo ) – 1, 596 out of 12, 990 soldiers from 32 countries

Another album of his, VI-Return of the Real came out in 1996, followed by The Seventh Deadly Sin in 1999.

Official estimates indicate that the population continued to increase after 1989, peaking out at 17 million in 1993 and then declining to 15 million in the 1999 census.

A bright spot in 1999 was the recovery of international petroleum prices, which, combined with a well-timed tenge devaluation and a bumper grain harvest, pulled the economy out of recession.

In January 1999, a new OSCE office opened in Bishkek ; on February 18, 2000 the OSCE announced that an additional office will be opened in Osh to assist Bishkek in carrying out its work.

" Music Hound, The Essential Album Guide ," a book published in 1999 and edited by Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz, gave " Forever Changes " a 4. 5 ( out of 5 ) rating.

In 1999, his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations ( 1953 ) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy by the Baruch Poll, standing out as "... the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations ".

In 1999, he succeeded in establishing one uniform political party – the Democratic Left Alliance – which turned out to be very successful in following elections.

Derrick recorded a solo EP under the moniker Today's Sounds in 1996, and later on in 1999 took charge of re-issuing the Puppets ' original seven records on Rykodisc as well as putting out their first live album, Live in Montana.

) In 1999, Susan Blackmore, a psychologist at the University of the West of England, published The Meme Machine, which more fully worked out the ideas of Dennett, Lynch, and Brodie and attempted to compare and contrast them with various approaches from the cultural evolutionary mainstream, as well as providing novel, and controversial, memetic-based theories for the evolution of language and the human sense of individual selfhood.

Before he dropped out, he was apparently recruited into al-Qaeda in 1999 along with friend Satam al-Suqami, with whom he had earlier shared a college room.

It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Kraków, Tarnów, Nowy Sącz and parts of Bielsko-Biała, Katowice, Kielce and Krosno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

On 15 May the CDS-Rahama, the party without which the MNSD could not have formed governments in 1999, 2004, and 2007, came out opposing the referendum, and calling the constitution unalterable.

This would mean the government of Niger would carry out scheduled parliamentary elections in September, two months early, and a referendum on a new constitution before Presidential elections which can take place no later than December, assuming the 1999 constitution is in effect.

Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.