Networks To Cover Primaries In Force
Date: 07 March 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Article on plans by three broadcast networks and cable outlets to cover most sweeping presidential primary ever (M)
Replaying Monday, March 6, 2000
The March 6, 2000 was a Monday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 65 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, March 6, 2026, 103 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, March 6, 2027, in 261 days. You have lived for 9,599 days, or about 230,381 hours, or about 13,822,882 minutes, or about 829,372,920 seconds.
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6th of March 2000 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 6, 2000
G.M. LOOKS TO INCREASE NUMBER OF SHARES IN HUGHES
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp to ask shareholders in June to increase sixfold number of GM Class H shares, which tracks Hughes Electronics unit, then will split stock to attract more buyers; GM shareholders will be asked to increase to 3.6 billion Class H shares (S)
CLEAR CHANNEL SELLING 72 RADIO STATIONS
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Clear Channel Communications, soon to become world's number 1 radio broadcaster, agrees to sell 72 radio stations to help win regulatory approval of its $23 billion purchase of AMFM Inc; Clear Channel will receive about $3 billion from sales; Infinity Broadcasting radio unit of CBS Corp agrees to buy 18 of stations for $1.4 billion; Clear Channel is selling about 50 radio stations in about 20 cities to companies including Cox Radio Inc, Cumulus Media Inc and Salem Communications (S)
COMVERSE TO BUY LORONIX FOR $232 MILLION IN STOCK
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Comverse Technology Inc acquires Loronix Information Systems Inc for about $232.6 million in stock (S)
Stock Surges on Fiber Optic Development
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Agilent Technologies Inc, test measurement company being spun off by Hewlett-Packard Co, gain $43.25, to $151.25, in New York Stock Exchange trading of four million shares (S)
SCANDINAVIAN BANK DEAL
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Swedish-Finnish bank MeritaNordbanken agrees to buy Unidanmark of Denmark for about $5 billion in stock (S)
Metro Business; A Lease in Jersey City
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company leases 45,000 square feet of space in Jersey City, NJ, where it will house retail branch and office space (S)
SOFTBANK STOCK TUMBLES
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Softbank Corp post their third worst drop ever, on concern that company's purchase of failed Nippon Credit Bank Ltd and doubling of its share price in just two months means stock is overvalued; Nikko Salomon Smith Barney Ltd lowers its rating; graph (S)
Two Utilities Amend a Merger Agreement
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carolina Power & Light Co, which agreed last year to buy Florida Progress Corp in $8 billion deal, says two companies have amended their merger agreement to give Florida Progress shareholders additional money (S)
Safety-Kleen Starts Accounting Inquiry
Date: 07 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Safety-Kleen Corp places chief executive Kenneth Winger, chief operating officer Michael Bragagnolo and chief financial officer Paul Humphreys on leave while special committee investigates its accounting practices; Safety-Kleen says it started probe after board 'received information alleging possible accounting irregularities' that may have affected financial results since 1998 fiscal year; Grover Wrenn, chairman of Strategic Diagnostics Inc, is named vice chairman and will run Safety-Kleen during investigation (S)