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While Viacom’s smallest wonder, Nick India wants to be synonymous with fun and laughter, the network seems to have found the perfect fit in Nina Jaipura...
MUMBAI: YouTube, the online video sharing site from Google faces yet another controversy as Viacom asks the website to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from...
MUMBAI: Nickelodeon, a division of Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks, has launched new kid-targeted virtual community titled Nicktropolis on 30 January. It promises to offer visitors multi-media...
MUMBAI: The controversy over the role TV ads play in kids obesity in the US is growing. US Senator Sam Brownback, and US media watchdog Federal...
MUMBAI: There seems to be no end to the executive departures at Sumner Redstone’s Viacom Inc. A day after Gail Berman resigned as president of Viacom’s...
MUMBAI: Viacom veteran Bob Bakish has been appointed president, MTV Networks International (MTVNI), reporting to Bill Roedy, who will retain oversight of MTVNI in addition to...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks (MTVN), a unit of Viacom has announced a new global digital media executive team. The central team will provide strategic guidance to the...
MUMBAI: Mega Brands Inc., toys, games and puzzle providers, has entered into a multi-year international licensing partnership with Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products to develop construction...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone has been sued by his nephew Michael Redstone. Michael has also named his own father in his suit....
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom Viacom has reported financial results for the third quarter ended 30 September, 2006. The company reported revenues and operating income of...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has appointed Carl D. Folta as executive VP, corporate communications. Folta, who will serve as Viacom’s chief communications strategist and spokesperson,...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has appointed Carl D. Folta as executive VP, corporate communications. Folta, who will serve as Viacom’s chief communications strategist and spokesperson,...
MUMBAI: Viacom International Japan has launched the Flux video sharing site for broadband Internet users in Japan. Flux is a free, advertiser-supported next-generation entertainment service that...
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: MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc has acquired Quizilla.com, an online, user-generated community of original teen authors, aged 14 and above, who create and...
There’s no escaping now, everywhere you go it follows, across buses, trains, kiosks and more. Striving to use every possible object within its reach to grab...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom’s board of directors has announced that it has entered into a revised employment agreement with its Executive Chairman Sumner M Redstone....
MUMBAI:The phenomenon of social networking is growing rapidly in the US and MTV is the latest media firm looking to take advantage of this phenomenon. It...
MUMBAI: Barely eight months after Viacom chairman Summer Redstone split the global media powerhouse into two units — CBS Corp and Viacom Inc — one of...
NEW DELHI: MTV India and Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division have joined forces to develop unique programming content for Xbox 360, the online gaming service across...
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: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) in the US has made Robert Traub the senior Vice President, retail development in the organisation. In his expanded...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has reported financial results for the second quarter and six months ended 30 June 2006. For the quarter, revenues and operating...
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: Media company Google has inked a deal with US media conglomerate Viacom. The online search behemoth will distribute clips of MTV’s shows that contain advertising...
MUMBAI: In a bid to connect better with youth US media firms are looking to buy social networking sites. Last year, News Corp plonked down $580...
MUMBAI: PUS media conglomerate Viacom’s comedy channel Comedy Central is kicking a documentary show Legends later this year in September. The channel says that Legends is...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom’s cable channel for men Spike TV has announced that its first original action show Blade: The Series, which premiered a few...
MUMBAI: Viacom division’s MTV Networks chief digital officer Jason Hirschhorn has resigned from his post. MTVN digital executive vice president Nick Lehman will replace Hirschhorn as...
MUMBAI: MTV Germany will launch the first dedicated comedy channel on free-to-view German television. Comedy Central launches next year. To this end, the channel will broadcast...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom’s subsidiary Bet is launching a jazz channel Bet J. Bet has signed a deal with US pay-TV platform DirecTV for carriage....
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has reported a 12 per cent rise in revenues at $2.37 billion for the first quarter ended 31 March 2006. Eight...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of Paramount Pictures’ DreamWorks film library to Soros Strategic Partners LP and Dune Entertainment II LLC,...
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: Nickelodeon has named Dominique Crosby as Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids & Family Group senior vice president strategy and business development. The announcement was made by...
MUMBAI: Soros Strategic Partners LP and Dune Entertainment II LLC, an affiliate of Dune Capital Management LP, have signed a definitive agreement with Viacom Inc. to...
MUMBAI: The start of something new! That is what Viacom president and CEO Tom Freston is looking to achieve in India. The company is looking to...
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’s Paramount Pictures announced today that it has closed on its acquisition of DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 billion in cash and assumption of debt. The...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. has completed the transaction to separate the company into two publicly traded entities, CBS Corporation and “New” Viacom Inc. Shares of the two...
MUMBAI: The second editon of the on-going Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), organised by the Dubai Media City, was attended by Viacom chairman and chief executive...
MUMBAI: Crown Media, which owns and operates Hallmark US has said that it has been approached by several parties regarding the acquisition of Hallmark. Earlier this...
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 appointed Wade Davis as senior vice president of Mergers & Acquisitions for new Viacom, following the separation of the organization into two...
MUMBAI: Brazils Globo TV International has designed a special catalogue of programmes to present at this years Asia Television Forum in Singapore. The event takes place...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. has acquired substantially all the assets of GameTrailers LLC, including the internet site GameTrailers.com. The acquisition clearly signifies,...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Latin America, a division of Viacom, has announced the creation of Viacom Networks Brasil (VNB), in an effort to advance its expansion strategy...
MUMBAI: The move towards time shifted television consumption is gathering pace. Rival US networks NBC Universal and Viacom’s CBS separately announced on Monday they would be...
