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1996
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This chronology covers -
1996
399,629 industrial robots in use in Japan (70,858 in US)
Granada buys Forte hotels and catering group for £3.6bn
Schibsted buys Swedish Aftonbladet
group
Seven network and Kerkorian buy MGM/UA
Chancellor buys 12 stations from
Colfax, eight from OmniAmerica and 19 from Shamrock
Jacor pays US$774m for Citicasters
ten FM and four AM radio stations
Al-Jazeera launched
Emap sells 69 regional newspapers to
Johnston for £211m
Pathé spun off from
Chargeurs
Petersen Publishing (inc Hot Rod) sold to D Claeys
Bahrenburg and Neal Vitale for US$450m
Entravision founded
1997
Telecommunications
Act 1997 deregulates telecoms in Australia
Cumulus founded in US
Frankel develops Winamp MP3 tool
Emmis founded in US
Capstar buys SFX Broadcasting for US$2.1bn
Trinity sells Red Deer Advocate
and 32 other Canadian newspapers to Black
Press for US$58m
Générale Occidentale sells Euronews stake to
ITN
CNHI founded in US
Alma Media formed through merger of
MTV with Aamulehti newspaper group
UFA merges with CLT
Microsoft invests US$1bn in Comcast
Petersen Publishing goes public
Chancellor Media Group created through US$1.5bn merger of
Chancellor Group with Evergreen
Microsoft buys WebTV for US$503m
Cairncross' The Death of Distance
Schement & Curtis' Tendencies & Tensions of the Information
Age
Strassmann's The Squandered Computer
Amsterdam Treaty
Jacor pays US$620m for 17 station Nationwide Communication
Clear buys Eller Media Company
Wiley buys Van Nostrand Reinhold for US$28m
Mirror Group buys Midland Independent Newspapers for £297m
1998
AOL
buys Netscape
Chancellor buys Capstar for US$4.1bn, becomes AMFM Inc radio
station chain
ICANN
created
Seagram buys Polygram
Advance sells book interests to Bertelsmann
Hewlett-Packard releases first colour Palmtop computer
Panasonic releases first hand-held DVD player
Clear buys More Group for £466m
Clear pays US$6.5bn for Jacor, taking portfolio to over 450
stations
Lamar acquires Outdoor Communications
Inc for US$490m
Seven network sells MGM stake for US$389m
Kelly's New Rules For The New Economy
US Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Seattle Times Co buys Guy Gannett
Communications
1999
Euro created as EU currency
Fanning founds Napster
auDA
established to manage dot-au TLD
Fanning founds Napster
AOL buys Frankel's Nullsoft for US$100m
Sanoma WSOY takes 10% stake in A-Pressen
(later increased to 29.6%)
global online population reaches 150 million (over 50% in
US)
Finland's mobile phones linked to vending machines
first WAP mobile phone advertisement in Finland
Australian Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online
Services) Act reinforces online content regulation
Clear pays US$23.5bn for AMFM Inc
Varian & Shapiro's Information Rules
Lessig's Code & Other Laws Of Cyberspace
RIAA litigation
against Napster
Viacom buys CBS
merger of Quebecor Printing and
World Color Press in US$2.7bn deal to create Quebecor World
Trinity International and Mirror
merge
Wiley buys Jossey-Bass from Pearson
for US$82m
US$45bn spent on US tv advertising (US$14bn to CBS, ABC and
NBC)
2000
Vivendi swallows Seagram and
Pathé
CanWest swallows Hollinger's
Canadian newspaper chain
'Great Dot-com Crash'
of April 2000
IPO of Riverdeep
Radio One buys 12 tv stations from
Clear Channel for US$1.3bn
Gannett buys Central Newspapers
Inc
BCE and Thomson form Bell Globemedia
CLT-UFA merges with television arm of Pearson,
becomes RTL
WAZ sells stake in RTL
Comcast completes acquisition of
Lenfest
Granada buys tv interests of United
News & Media for £1.75bn
Trinity Mirror buys Southnews for £285m
Telemedia sells publishing arm
to Transcontinental for US$102m
Orkla buys 76% of Det Berlingske Officin
group for €209m
'Digital Agenda' Copyright
Act in Australia
Australian Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act extends
privacy regime to parts of non-government sector
Univision buys USA Networks for
US$1.1bn
Clear buys SFX Entertainment for US$4.4bn
Telefonica buys Endemol
Frankel releases Gnutella
IPO of Tamedia
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