Viacom acquired BET in 2001 for a reported $3 billion with Robert Johnson earning over $1 billion from the sale making him the first Black American billionaire. Johnson remained the CEO of BET ...

Though National Amusements now controlled both Viacom and CBS ... in taking every penny off the table," Redstone wrote in his 2001 autobiography. The Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey's ...

A 14-year dispute over rights to the MTV 1ogo between Viacom, owners of US-based Music Television, and Sri Lanka's Maharaja Group ended recently with the Supreme Court ruling in favour of Viacom. In a ...