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Rather Outspoken

Leslie Griffith | Posted 05.21.2012

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Leslie Griffith

Dan Rather's latest book, Rather Outspoken, reminds us that reporters had best be careful when they set about the business of digging up news.

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Time Warner Cable, Viacom Reach iPad Agreement

Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 05.17.2012

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Viacom Inc, the parent of MTV and Comedy Central, has settled lawsuits with Time Warner Cable Inc over ...

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Viacom May Get Better Than Expected News

AP | Posted 05.03.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Viacom, the home of such shows as "SpongeBob Squarepants" and "Jersey Shore," is reporting its financial results for the latest quar...

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Viacom Revives Lawsuit Against YouTube

Reuters | Posted 04.06.2012

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By Jonathan Stempel and Yinka Adegoke (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court dealt Google Inc a major defeat by reviving lawsuits by Viacom I...

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Amazon Could Announce Netflix Challenger As Soon As This Week

Reuters | Yinka Adegoke | Posted 04.08.2012

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By Yinka Adegoke (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the l...

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Viacom Earnings Miss Expectations

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.03.2012

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NEW YORK — Viacom Inc., the owner of Paramount Pictures, MTV and Comedy Central, on Thursday posted a 65 percent drop in net income for the late...

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'Daily Show' & 'Colbert Report' Twitter Accounts Hacked

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 01.24.2012

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Late Sunday evening, both "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" official Twitter accounts were hacked. It started with tweets telling people to fo...

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A Unique Ecosystem Brings Food to the Hungry: What Do You Bring to the Table?

April Rudin | Posted 03.04.2012

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April Rudin

Hunger is something which Syd Mandelbaum has never known personally. But as the child of Holocaust survivors, it was something which was close to his heart.

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Viacom's Huge Lobbying Effort

AP | Posted 02.12.2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) � Viacom Inc., the owner of the Paramount Pictures movie studio and cable TV channels MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, spent $66...

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Food and Media Companies Lobby to Weaken Guidelines on Marketing Food to Children

The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 02.06.2012

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The Sunlight Foundation

A major lobbying push by a powerful group of food and media companies appears to be working, with a federal agency indicating it would back off on parts of proposed voluntary guidelines for marketing food to children. The guidelines are meant to combat childhood obesity.

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Viacom Earnings Up

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 01.10.2012

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NEW YORK — Viacom turned the success of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" into a pile of money in its latest quarter, as earnings tripled and rev...

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Flouting The Law?

AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 12.18.2011

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NEW YORK -- A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Intern...

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Chatting with The Summer Set's Brian Dales, Plus Rightsflow's Patrick Sullivan and Tedeschi Trucks Band Video Premiere

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.11.2011

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Mike Ragogna

The Tedeschi Trucks Band's new album Revelator features the track "Bound For Glory," and premiering here is a live version of that song. This exclusive comes from Susan and Derek's Center Stage performance in Atlanta on April 8, 2011.

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How to Settle the Viacom iPad Lawsuits Now

Jonathan Handel | Posted 09.07.2011

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Jonathan Handel

Back in April, Viacom and Time Warner Cable sued each other; then last month Viacom sued Cablevision. Interestingly, that came just a day after Viacom...

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Viacom Sues Cablevision Over IPad Video App

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 08.23.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and other television channels, accused cable TV distributor Cablevision Systems Corp...

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A Word or Two About Judy McGrath...

Jason Hirschhorn | Posted 07.06.2011

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Jason Hirschhorn

Yesterday brought us the the news that Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, had resigned. I've known Judy for a little over 11 years and...

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MTV CEO Out

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 07.05.2011

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NEW YORK — MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath is stepping down from the company she helped turn into a pop culture icon in the three decades since sh...

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iPad App Leads To Legal Battle

AP | Posted 06.08.2011

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NEW YORK -- Time Warner Cable Inc. and Viacom Inc. took their dispute over what content can be put on the cable company's iPad app to federal court on...

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Hooray for Hollywood: Finding Joy in Doing Good

Dylan Kendall | Posted 06.04.2011

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Dylan Kendall

Over the past 20 years, the industry that gained its wealth generating messages started listening to the voices of the consumers it has informed. The media industry is becoming responsible.

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Time Warner Cable Drops Some Channels From iPad App

AP | By JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Time Warner Cable Inc. will drop a dozen cable channels from its iPad app after three big programmers complained that the company does n...

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The Real Deal on Cable's App Flap

Dennis Kneale | Posted 05.30.2011

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Dennis Kneale

The cable industry is bracing for a bitter slugfest, the two sides of a once-united house -- content and distribution -- scrapping over an innocuous app that delivers cable shows to the iPad.

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News Corp. Begins Process To Sell Myspace

Reuters | Yinka Adegoke | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp has kicked off the process to explore the sale or spin-off of its troubled social entertainment site, Myspace, a pe...

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How Big Is Too Big?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

Forty years after the federal government ruled that broadcast networks could not own cable systems, the FCC decided that Comcast, by far the largest of all cable system companies, could take control of NBC Universal, Inc.

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'South Park' Accused Of Stealing From YouTube Video

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Did South Park copy YouTube? Viacom, Comedy Central, and the producers of the contentious animated hit South Park are being sued for alleged copyri...

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'Jersey Shore' Ratings, MTV Boosting Viacom Out Of Slump

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — MTV is finally getting its mojo back, thanks to the tanned twenty-somethings of "Jersey Shore." Ever since its December debut, th...

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