More Prime Time News
Date: 06 January 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
ABC is giving yet another hour of prime time to a news program, tentatively called ABC News Thursday Night; program will take over 10-to-11 PM time slot (S)
Replay woensdag 6 januari 1999
6 januari 1999 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♑. Het was de 5e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 27 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op dinsdag 6 januari 2026, 167 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op woensdag 6 januari 2027, in 197 dagen. Je hebt 10.029 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 240.697 uur, of ongeveer 14.441.845 minuten, of ongeveer 866.510.700 seconden.
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6th of January 1999 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 6 januari 1999
An Analytical Channel
Date: 06 January 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Freedom Forum, nonpartisan foundation focused on media studies, and WETA, public-television station serving Washington area, join to start cable channel devoted to analyzing and interpreting news; Ed Turner is named president of new channel, to be called Forum Network (S)
Starr Finds Nothing Wrong With Revealing Details of Talks
Date: 07 January 1999
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Independent counsel Kenneth W Starr tells Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who is investigating his office over possible illegal grand jury leaks, that it would have been appropriate for him to disclose to reporters information about negotiations with Monica S Lewinsky; does not directly address whether he or anyone in his office were sources for news accounts last year about his office's discussions with Lewinsky over whether she would testify against Pres Clinton; says that to have done so would not have been illegal because negotiations with Lewinsky did not involve grand jury (M)
Footlights
Date: 07 January 1999
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Smithsonian Institution's 1997 exhibition, The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940, will open in reduced versions at Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington, Newport News Public Library in Virginia, and at Delta State University Archives in Cleveland, Miss; photo; Brazil renames Rio de Janeiro's international airport in honor of Antonio Carlos Jobim, musician who popularized bossa nova; Noche Flamenca, troupe of musicians, singers and dancers, will perform flamenco at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College; photo; novelist Salman Rushdie will be made commander in Order of Arts and Letters, France's most prestigious literary award; Jack Nicholson, who has received five Golden Globe awards from Hollywood Foreign Press Assn, will be honored with organization's Cecil B DeMille award for 'outstanding contribution to the entertainment world' (M)
500 Are Massacred in Congo, Missionaries Report
Date: 06 January 1999
By Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher
Missionary Service News Agency reports that about 500 people were massacred in eastern Congo during New Year holiday; if report is true, it would be largest massacre since start of rebellion in Aug against Congo Pres Laurent Kabila; Roman Catholic news agency says killings were carried out by soldiers aligned with rebels, who are led by Tutsi; map (M)
CHIEF EXECUTIVE SAYS TELLABS IS NOT IN TAKEOVER TALKS
Date: 07 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tellabs Inc chief executive Michael J Birck says he is not in discussions to sell company (S)
MANY EXECUTIVES CHOOSE TO STAY WITH NEW BANKAMERICA
Date: 06 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BankAmerica Corp says about 80 percent of 1,134 of executives eligible to leave under change-of-control agreements touched off by recent merger with Nationsbank Corp are still with combined bank; while not all executives of former BankAmerica were offered positions, 900 of 918 top executives who did not receive such offers have agreed to stay (S)
FCB FINANCIAL SHARES RISE ON ANCHOR BANCORP TAKEOVER
Date: 07 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Anchor Bancorp Wisconsin Inc acquires FCB Financial Corp for $172 million in stock; shares of FCB Financial rise 38 percent (S)
INTIMATE BRANDS REPORTS STRONG FOURTH-QUARTER SALES
Date: 07 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intimate Brands Inc says fourth-quarter earnings will top expectations; says sales in December rose 9 percent, to $905.4 million, from $831.5 million a year earlier (S)
AMERICA ONLINE ENLARGES ITS STAKE IN TEL-SAVE.COM
Date: 06 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
America Online Inc enlarges its share of ownership in Tel-Save.com Inc to about 15 percent and says it has extended its marketing agreement with Tel-Save by two years; America Online says it will make $55 million investment in Tel-Save.com common stock at $19 a share and will exchange about $19 million in Tel-Save.com warrants for common stock; investment will add to America Online's current holding of about 8 percent (S)