Editing 1999 in American television (section)

===September===
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| [[UPN]] replaces its [[UPN Kids]] block with a new E/I-compliant block airing weekdays and Sunday mornings named [[Disney's One Too]], a spinoff of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s [[Disney's One Saturday Morning]].
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| In [[Schenectady, New York]], [[PBS]] member station [[WCWN|WMHQ]] is relaunched as WEWB-TV, a commercial broadcast station affiliated with [[The WB]] (the [[Capital District, New York|Capital District]]'s first affiliate of that network).
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| [[PBS]] launches a 24-hour [[PBS Kids]] television network and new branding for its children's programming.
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! 7
| [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom]] announced that the company would acquire [[CBS]] and its company, [[CBS Corporation (1997)|CBS Corporation]] (after CBS spun off Viacom in 1971 after the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] forbids broadcast networks to own [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]] units or more TV stations) which would cause the two companies to merge into one mega media empire. Which the merger would bring CBS and [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] close.
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! 12
| The [[51st Primetime Emmy Awards]] presentation is aired on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]].
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! 20
| After four years, [[WGN America|WGN's superstation feed]] drops programming from [[The WB]] and [[Kids' WB]] at the request of the network. The network's programs are replaced by movie, sports from Chicago's sporting teams and other broadcasts.
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! 24
| [[The WB]] begins airing programming on Friday nights.
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! 26
| [[NBC]] airs a [[Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special|three-hour prime-time special]] in celebration of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'s'' 25th anniversary.
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! 27
| [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] garners the highest cable rating in [[WWE|WWF]] history with [[Mick Foley|Mankind]] in a segment entitled "This is your life" on [[WWE Raw|Raw Is War]], which draws a record 8.4 rating.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/rock-this-is-your-life-playlist | title=The Rock: This is Your Life! }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/57902-bill-banks-talks-about-the-highest-rated-wrestling-segment | title=Bill Banks Talks About the Highest Rated Wrestling Segment | website=[[Bleacher Report]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://slashwrestling.com/raw/990927.html | title=; RAW 27 September 1999|work=/Wrestling}}</ref>
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