Sumner Redstone

Dan Rather Trial: Les Moonves, Andrew Heyward Scheduled To Testify, Sumner Redstone Also Expected

New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

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The chief executive of CBS and the former president of CBS News have agreed to answer questions from lawyers for Dan Rather, who has accused the netwo...

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Sumner Redstone: Daughter Shari Will Not Succeed Me

New York Times | Tim Arango and Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho -- Sumner M. Redstone, the chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, is usually a ubiquitous figure here at the invest...

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The Old Men Of Media Moguldom

Gawker | Hamilton Nolan | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, Hugh Hefner, Media Moguls, Sam Zell, Media News

"I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! C...

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Redstone OKs Cruise For "Mission Impossible 4"

AP | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment

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SEOUL, South Korea — Entertainment mogul Sumner Redstone said Tuesday he has no objection to Tom Cruise starring in the next segment of the popu...

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Performance Does Not Match Pay At Viacom

Los Angeles Times | Meg James | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Sumner Redstone, Cbs, Les Moonves, Viacom, Business News

All chief executives are not equal in media mogul Sumner Redstone's empire, at least when it comes to what they are paid. Viacom Chief Executive Phil...

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Tom Cruise's Fat, Bald Cameo Steals Show At Industry Screening

NY Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Take that, Sumner Redstone. At an industry screening Tuesday night of the forthcoming comedy "Tropic Thunder" from Paramount Pictures and its unit Dr...

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Tom Cruise And Sumner Redstone Reunite

NY Post, WSJ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Has one of the legendary feuds in Hollywood come to an end? Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone may be on the mend, according to reports in the NY Post and...

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Twilight Of The Media Moguls

BusinessWeek | Johnnie L. Roberts | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Media Conglomerates, John Malone, LIBERTY MEDIA, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, Home Shopping Network, Barry Diller, Iac, Wendi Murdoch, Jeff Bewkes, Bob Iger, Business News

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old chestnut says, then it makes perfect sense that Barry Diller would host a swanky soiree last summer ...

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Bob Schieffer Sings For Sumner Redstone — With Edited Out "Brokeback Mountain" Reference

Huffington Post | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media

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From the New York Times:Two singers who owe their success, in part, to the media mogul Sumner M. Redstone paid tribute to him at a gala given in his h...

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Moonves Programs for His Boss, Age 84

Charles Warner | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media

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CBS has the oldest demographics of any of the five networks and one of its top-rated shows, 60 Minutes looks like it's in a wheelchair.

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Paramount's Internal Shuffling May Pay Off With Profitable 2008

New York Times | Michael Ciepley | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business

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Prospective blockbusters are not usually built this way. Rob Moore, the executive who oversees Paramount Pictures' marketing and distribution operati...

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Freston On Being Fired, Life After Viacom

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Sumner Redstone, Viacom, Myspace, Tom Freston, BigThink, Business News

If Sumner Redstone thinks Tom Freston is still kicking himself for not snapping up MySpace when he had the chance, he's in for some disappointment. A...

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WGA Strike Primer: Merry Christmas from Your Friends at the AMPTP

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.08.2007 | Entertainment

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The AMPTP corporations will now be putting out how wonderful and decent and put-upon they are, and how grubbing the sniveling writers are. And how evil WGA leaders are. Watch.

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Redstone, Grey Buddy Up After Geffen Vitriol

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 12.03.2007 | Business

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All the chatter about Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey getting fired - which was all anyone in Hollywood could talk about during the former talent age...

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Tom Cruise Had Spielberg's Family Doctor Picketed By Scientologists

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 11.29.2007 | Entertainment

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Deep in the December issue of Vanity Fair is an interesting throw-away line about Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. Bryan Burrough wrote a lengthy arti...

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Nice Try, CBS, But Rather's Lawsuit Has Merit

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media

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There may be plenty of contested stuff in Dan Rather's complaint, but he more than makes a sufficient prima facie case to warrant proceeding with the lawsuit.

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Gotta Write! Daily Show Writers Just Can't Help Themselves, Smack Down Studios From The Picket Line

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media

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Have you missed your Daily Show fix? Well then enjoy this, the latest creative effort by the striking TDS writers as they clearly can no longer keep t...

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Redstones Settle Family Feud?

New York Daily News | George Rush & Joanna Molloy | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media

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Peace could be at hand in the feud between Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari. According to recent reports, the Redstones were s...

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Geffen Blasts Redstone In New "Vanity Fair," Calls "These People" A "Nightmare"

Vanity Fair | Bryan Burrough | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business

Read More: Viacom, Michael Ovitz, Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone, David Geffen, Cbs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks, Brad Grey, Business News

There was a time, not long after Sumner Redstone came to Southern California four years ago, when the world must have seemed rosy and new and full of ...

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Viacom Profits Reports Massive Third Quarter Profits

AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 11.02.2007 | Business

Read More: Sumner Redstone, Paramount, Mtv, Viacom, Comedy Central, Transformers, Business News

Viacom Inc., a media conglomerate that owns MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, reported an 80 percent jump in third-quarter earnings Friday o...

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Will He Ever Let Go? Sumner Redstone Declares "I'll Be In Control After I Die"

Forbes | Robert Lenzner and Devon Pendleton | Posted 11.01.2007 | Business

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Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old entertainment mogul who has voting control of CBS and Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ), was giving a speech at...

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The Vanity Fair New Establishment: Who Gave, Who Didn't, and Who They Gave To

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.18.2007 | Media

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It's notoriously difficult to find media personalities who donate to political campaigns, either because they're bound by big-media constraints (like ...

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Redstone Family Feud Still Alive And Well

Los Angeles Times | Claudia Eller | Posted 10.01.2007 | Media

Read More: Sumner Redstone, CBS Corp, Sherri Redstone, Viacom, Media Families, Redstone Family Feud, Media News

Since the public blow-up in July between Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari over corporate governance and succession issues at their family-contro...

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DreamWorks Principals Expected To Bolt Paramount Late Next Year

Los Angeles Times | Claudia Eller | Posted 09.21.2007 | Media

Read More: Sumner Redstone, David Geffen, Paramount, Viacom, Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks, Media News

Less than two years after Steven Spielberg and his partners sold DreamWorks SKG to Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures for $1.6 billion, a divorce appear...

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