Editing 1996 in American television (section)

=== July ===
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|When it becomes evident that [[Anna Stuart]] will be next to die in a serial killer storyline on the [[NBC]] soap opera ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'', many fans start letter-writing campaigns to save the actress; the NBC studios in New York City also report a great number of switchboard telephone calls regarding Stuart's imminent demise. Executive producer [[Jill Farren Phelps]] decides that actress [[Alice Barrett]] will be killed off the show instead.
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|[[New World Pictures#New World Communications|New World Communications]] sells NBC affiliates [[KNSD|KNSD-TV]] in [[San Diego|San Diego, California]], and [[WVTM-TV]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], their lone remaining stations that didn't switch to Fox, to NBC's [[NBC Owned Television Stations|owned-and-operated division]].
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|At the [[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]] produced [[pay-per-view]] [[List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events|event]] [[Bash at the Beach (1996)|Bash at the Beach]], [[Hulk Hogan]] [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#T|turns]] [[Heel (professional wrestling)|heel]] for the first time in 15 years and announces the formation of the [[New World Order (professional wrestling)|New World Order]] with [[Kevin Nash]] and [[Scott Hall]].
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|[[News Corporation]] (the owners of [[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]] and the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX Television Network]]) announced that it would acquire [[New World Pictures|New World]] in an all-stock transaction worth $2.48 billion. The purchase by News Corporation was finalized in early 1997, folding New World's ten Fox affiliates into the former's [[Fox Television Stations]] subsidiary and making [[1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment|all twelve stations affected by the 1994 agreement]] owned-and-operated stations of the network.
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