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Sumner Redstone May Sell CBS, Possibly No Longer Billionaire

Huffington Post | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

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Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS and Viacom, saw both those stocks hit five-year lows last week, further exacerbating what has alre...

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Media Stocks Mayday: News Corp, CBS, Viacom Hit Five Year Lows

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.20.2008 | Media

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Wall Street's rough Wednesday, which saw the Dow Jones industrial average dip below 8,000 for the first time in five years, was particularly felt amon...

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Google, Yahoo Revise Search Deal: MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Streaming Video, Jerry Yang, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Brightcove, Yahoo, Department of Justice, Shelly Palmer, Fcc, Paramount Pictures, Mtv, Phone, Phillipe Dauman, Eric Schmidt, Transformers, Media News, Viacom, Kevin Martin, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Google and Yahoo will narrow the focus of their search ads deal in order to win approval from the Department of Justice. The revised plans have a tw...

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Sumner Redstone May Have To Sell More Viacom, CBS

Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Sumner Redstone, Wall Street Crisis, Viacom, Cbs, Economy, Business News

But he may still have to sell them. This will create an overhang that won't do wonders for their already demolished stock prices. CNBC's Charlie Gasp...

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YouTube Gives McCain Campaign A Rare Reality Check

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Copyright Infringement, Youtube, John McCain, Viacom, Copyright, Media News
Art Brodsky

From my day job at Public Knowledge, we welcome the McCain campaign to the world as controlled by big media companies.

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Sumner Redstone's Credit Crisis Hits CBS And Viacom

Los Angeles Times | Meg James | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

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Billionaire Sumner Redstone got caught in the credit crunch Friday. The 85-year-old mogul, who has long bragged about his financial savvy and competi...

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Sumner Redstone: Daughter Shari Will Not Succeed Me

New York Times | Tim Arango and Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 07.18.2008 | 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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Viacom Versus Google: Coming of Age of the "Viderate" Generation

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Youtube, Michael Arrington, Media News, Viacom, Tower Records, Techcrunch, Google, Media News
Jerry Weinstein

While judge Stanton declined Viacom's request for YouTube's proprietary code, he ordered Google to provide Viacom with userIDs and IP addresses (for unregistered users) as well as three terabytes of video.

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Google Trying To Find Money In Web Video, Looking Old-Media

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Google Viacom YouTube Lawsuit, Viacom, Youtube, Google Profits, YouTube Profits, Web Video, Google, Business News

YouTube will generate about $200 million of revenue this year,* say two WSJ sources, short of Google's expectations. Chief salesman Tim Armstrong is ...

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Steven Spielberg, Anil Ambani Close To Reliance Deal For DreamWorks SKG

Bloomberg.com | Subramaniam Sharma and Joseph Galante | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

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Steven Spielberg and Indian billionaire Anil Ambani are close to forming a venture that may help the movie director's DreamWorks SKG team exit from Vi...

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Watch Full Daily Show, Colbert Report Online: Comedy Central Comes To Hulu

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

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A big pick-up for Hulu: Viacom is letting it re-run entire episodes of its two most popular (and best) shows: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. ...

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Redstone OKs Cruise For "Mission Impossible 4"

AP | Posted 05.14.2008 | 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 04.27.2008 | 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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DVDs, Video Games Boost Viacom Profits

AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Viacom Profits, Viacom, Mtv, Philippe Dauman, Rock Band, Transformers, Business News

MTV owner Viacom Inc. reported a 16 percent gain in fourth quarter earnings Thursday and said its advertising business hadn't been hurt by the slowdow...

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Dauman: Viacom Is "Recession Resistant"

Bloomberg | Greg Miles and Andy Fixmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bloomberg Television, Paramount, Viacom, Digital Sales, MTV Networks, Philippe Dauman, Business News

Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman said the owner of MTV Networks and the Paramount film studio is ``recession-resistant'' and met a ...

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MTV And Jerry Bruckheimer To Collaborate On Video Games

Reuters | Kenneth Li | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Viacom Inc's (VIAb.N) MTV and award-winning television and film producer Jerry Bruckheimer will launch a video game development studio, marrying Holly...

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Freston On Being Fired, Life After Viacom

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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New "Jackass" Movie Bypassing Theaters, Heading Straight For Internet

AP | Erin Carlson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Jackass Movie, Johnny Knoxville, Mtv, Viacom, Blockbuster, Jackass 2.5, Jackass, Business News

The next batch of painful "Jackass" stunts is coming to a computer screen near you. The first two films -- spun off from the former MTV series -- co-...

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Viacom Walkout Proves Fruitful As Management Reconsiders Changes

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Hey Viacom freelancers! You got something out of your rabble-rousing, after all! Viacom has just sent out a memo that undoes at least one of the chang...

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Viacom Freelancers Walking Out To Protest Benefit Cuts

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Viacom's large freelance contingent are justifiably angry about the company's decision to whack away at their benefits. The bravest among them are pla...

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MTV Network Employees Planning Walkout

New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: MTV Strike, Nickleodeon, Vh1, Viacom, Mtv, Spike, Comedy Central, Media News

Employees at Viacom's MTV Networks (which includes, in part, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo, and Spike) are threatening a walkout on Mond...

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News Corp Hugs Apple: 20th Cent. Fox Films To iTunes

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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News Corp.'s (NWS) 20th Century Fox studio is talking with Apple (AAPL) about selling its movies through iTunes, reports Pali Capital's Rich Greenfiel...

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Redstone, Grey Buddy Up After Geffen Vitriol

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Geffen Redstone, Paramount, Viacom, Vanity Fair, Sumner Redstone, Paramount Pictures, David Geffen, Hollywood, Dreamworks, Brad Grey, Business News

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

Vanity Fair | Bryan Burrough | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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Group Protests "Degrading" Music Videos

New York Times | Felicia R. Lee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Enough Is Enough, Viacom, Mtv, Bet, Philippe Dauman, Media News

Wearing white T-shirts with red stop signs and chanting "BET does not reflect me, MTV does not reflect me," protesters have been gathering every Satur...

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