After spending a substantial amount of money in legal fees doggedly pursuing YouTube, Viacom isn’t very happy with Judge Stanton’s curt 24-page opinion that shrugged off its argument that ...

It's time for twosomes at Viacom. Veteran ad exec Michael Dolan was named Wednesday as Viacom's chief financial officer, but it's anticipated he'll ultimately become CFO of the post-split unit ...

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports that Viacom is buying BET Holdings, the owner of the nation's only cable-TV network specifically aimed at African-Americans. Viacom will pay 2.5 billion dollars in ...

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Viacom boosted profits by 40% in the past quarter to $418 million, but on the revenue front, gains in advertising were offset by weaker DVD sales. The result: Viacom's revenues remained flat at $3 ...

Viacom has suffered a $300 million loss in a Delaware court tied to its 2006 acquisition of Harmonix, the studio that created the Rock Band video games.. Although Viacom sold Harmonix in 2010, it ...

Viacom's MTV Networks unveiled its plans for MTVi in November 1999. The idea was to cross-promote the site with MTV and VH1 and to create the most popular music destination on the Web.

Jonathan Dolgen, the former chairman and CEO of Viacom Entertainment Group, has died. ... In 1985 he moved to 20th Century Fox, where he became President of Television.

But the Sony deal with Viacom represents the first totally stand-alone Web TV service to secure the content rights to be viable. Update, 7:48 a.m. PT : With further details of the service and context.

In March of 1994, Viacom bought 61.7 million shares in Paramount to take control of the company, in a deal valued at between $9.5 billion and $10.1 billion by Variety at the time. It beat out home ...

Jonathan Dolgen, the former head of Viacom Entertainment and a former top 20th Century Fox executive, died Oct. 9 of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 78. For a decade, from 1994 until 2004 ...