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Billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone is getting the management change he wants at Viacom. Viacom’s board of directors voted Thursday to remove Philippe Dauman as CEO, replacing him ...
UPDATE: Negotiations continued Saturday between Viacom and AT&T, officials told USA TODAY. The Viacom channels remained on AT&T's platforms past the Friday deadline. On Saturday, Viacom updated ...
Nick Cannon is at the center of a legal pursuit as Viacom International Inc. has filed a lawsuit accusing him and Zeus Network for blatantly ripping off his long-running MTV series, Wild ’N Out.
Viacom and CBS Corp. are again joining forces to bolster their positions in a rapidly changing industry that's pushing other media companies to bulk up. The two first merged in 1999 and broke ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CBS (NYSE: CBS.A, CBS) and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) today announced senior appointments for ViacomCBS’ content and digital leadership. These appointments ...
The long history of CBS and Viacom merging, splitting up, and getting back together could be fodder for a juicy romance novel if it weren’t so dully corporate. Viacom (originally named CBS Films ...
After the breakup, however, CBS proved to be a steady ship, while Viacom saw its shares stagnate as the company struggled to figure out how to adjust to the digital age — leading to Redstone’s ...
On Tuesday, the media companies CBS and Viacom finally announced that they are merging. It’s the move their owner Shari Redstone has been trying to make for years. The deal combines a big cable ...
Bankers representing CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. have begun to hammer out terms and management structure in their latest attempt to merge the two media properties controlled by Sumner Redstone’s ...
As media giants CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. move closer to a blockbuster merger, the leading candidate to run the combined entity has been blackballed from one of the seminal events in the media ...
CBS and Viacom are gearing up to resume merger talks — and settle once and for all who will be CEO of the combined company, The Post has learned. On Monday, the two media giants cleared a major ...
Viacom stock was rising Monday after the company announced it had reached a deal to keep its channels on DirecTV. The back story. Viacom stock (ticker: VIAB) fell more than 7% last week while the ...