3. Disagree. They gave us Legends (unless Stone Stanley would have sold the idea to another network... Could you imagine that??)
I'm prolly wrong, but I always thought that Viacom bought Nickelodeon in 1999. Ed, please tell me if I'm wrong!
Viacom acquired Nickelodeon in 1985 along with MTV, so you're right that Viacom hasn't always held Nickelodeon, but your date is a bit mixed up. You were probably thinking subconsciously of the starting year of Nick GaS, which was, incidentally, 1999.
I didn't know this off the top of my head, so I looked
here.
Anyway, to continue the topic... To PPF: No opinion. I don't know if I've even read one before.

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