MUMBAI: A little over a month has passed since Tom Freston quit US media conglomerate Viacom. He will receive $84.8 million in severance, accrued salary and...
MUMBAI: Barely eight months after Viacom chairman Summer Redstone split the global media powerhouse into two units — CBS Corp and Viacom Inc — one of...
MUMBAI: Barely eight months after Viacom chairman Summer Redstone split the global media powerhouse into two units — CBS Corp and Viacom Inc — one of...
MUMBAI: US network MTV has agreed to acquire the remaining interest in joint venture MTV Japan from private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific (H&QAP). This will...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc.s has announced that MTV and Nickelodeon will become full labels under the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) as part of a new structure...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom and Adobe Systems have announced a strategic alliance to develop and deliver Viacom’s branded content using the Adobe Engagement Platform. Through...
MUMBAI: Freeing of cash flow and focus. That primarily is what the split of Viacom into two entities at the beginning of the year means in...
MUMBAI: With a view to let Viacom and its MTV Networks unit connect online gamers, Viacom has acquired Xfire, a Silicon Valley company that makes free...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Asia in collaboration with Motorola, a company involved in wireless and broadband communications, is set to launch a digital entertainment platform ‘Mobbed’. Targeting...
MUMBAI: This is a time when American media companies are looking to the net as a way to grow their business further. The latest to enter...
MUMBAI: Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game. Speaking to attendees at an industry event in New York, Viacom CEO Tom Freston revealed...
MUMBAI: Viacom and CBS Corporation have announced their first financial results since the split of US media conglomerate Viacom. This earnings report deliver mixed results, because...
MUMBAI: The sixth edition of Frames, the convention for the Indian media and entertainment industry takes place in Mumbai from 22 to 24 March 2006. It...
MUMBAI: Viacom has acquired Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Viacom and its studio division, Paramount Pictures, signed...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. has announced that the company’s senior executive VP and CFO Richard J. Bressler will be quitting the company next year. As per an...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Betsy Frank will be the executive VP, research and planning, Viacom’s Cable Networks, film and publishing. Frank will report...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks will launch the company’s 100th channel MTV Base on 1 February 2005 in Africa. MTV Networks claims to be the first global media...
MUMBAI: Global media giant Viacom that owns MTV has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Viva Media, its only German music television rival. The estimated...
MUMBAI: Mel Karmazin, president and COO of media major Viacom, is out. That brief line about sums up the manner in which the announcement of Karmazin’s...
NEW YORK: Media and Entertainment honchos from New York and Los Angeles will raise a glass to News Corporation president and COO Peter Chernin when he...
NEW YORK: MTV Networks chairman and CEO Tom Freston, has announced a new network group structure for the company. The new structure expands the roles of...
