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Group Protests "Degrading" Music Videos

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


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...

Viacom Profits Reports Massive Third Quarter Profits

AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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

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

Forbes | Robert Lenzner and Devon Pendleton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

Moonves: CBS Is Just Ducky, Despite Absence Of New Hits

New York Times | BILL CARTER, GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Last spring, Leslie Moonves, chief executive of the CBS Corporation, delivered what several executives there described as a strong message to his prog...

Viacom Unveils New "Daily Show" Site With 13,000 Video Clips

Los Angeles Times | Thomas S. Mulligan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online video service. In the ongoing quest to make Internet popu...

"Couric" Coined The Unit Of Measurement For Excrement By "South Park"

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


On Wednesday night's "South Park" on Comedy Central, Stan's dad takes what he believes is a record-breaking sized bowel movement, so he calls for an o...

Redstone Family Feud Still Alive And Well

Los Angeles Times | Claudia Eller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


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

DreamWorks Principals Expected To Bolt Paramount Late Next Year

Los Angeles Times | Claudia Eller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


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...

Ja Rule Complains About "F-ing Shows Promoting Homosexuality"

Complex | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Complex: Did you see that report about Congress preparing to hold hearings? Ja: (interrupts) Yeah, they got my man Doug Morris under fire and shit, th...

"Daily Show," "Sarah Silverman Project," Other Viacom Shows Getting New Websites

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A new hub for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" headlines a slate of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom's MTV Networks will lau...