Connect with us
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. and the Walt Disney Company have agreed to pay $1 million and $500,000 respectively to settle charges made by the Federal Communications Commission...
MUMBAI: Viacom has announced that Oracle president Charles E. Phillips, Jr has been elected to its board of directors. Phillips will serve on the audit committee...
MUMBAI: Even as Walt Disney is working overtime to have everything in place for what now looks increasingly like a year-end coming out party for its...
MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. announced that, based on preliminary results, its exchange offer for the split-off of Blockbuster Inc. was oversubscribed. The final results to be announced...
MUMBAI: After Viacom announced that it would launch Logo for the US gay and lesbian community early next year, it is now France’s turn to get...
MUMBAI: Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone has announced several initiatives for its businesses in China for MTV and Nickelodeon. These include a partnership with Beijing...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s China push has gathered some serious steam with the announcement yesterday by chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone of a strategic partnership with Beijing Television...
MUMBAI: Going by what Viacom co-president and co-chief operating officer Leslie Moonves reportedly told the Television Critics Association on Sunday, the Viacom owned CBS Television Network...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced the promotion of key executives to new roles at CBS and Paramount Network Television. This will create a new management...
MUMBAI: It’s not just in India that family channel Hallmark is finding the going tough. Hallmark International, the struggling television business of the American greetings card...
MUMBAI: Viacom has completed its acquisition of 75.83 per cent of Viva Media AG from 14 shareholders today. Aditionally, the global media giant is also launching...
MUMBAI: Bruce Taub has been named Viacom executive vice-president, operations, a newly created position at the company. The announcement was made by Viacom co-president/ co-chief operation...
MUMBAI: Viacom is reorganising its international television distribution operations with the creation of CBS Paramount International Television – a new global television sales and distribution entity...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom’s co COO Tom Freston has announced reorganisation of operations under his leadership. This includes the company’s book publishing, theatrical exhibition, music...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom, which owns MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount, among other entities, has reported its results for the second quarter ended 30 June 2004. Viacom’s...
MUMBAI: While the industry impatiently awaits an announcement as to who will be heading Disney in India, some news on what the three channels it is...
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: Viacom and Blockbuster have jointly announced terms of separation. The divestiture is to be achieved through split-off exchange offer to Viacom stockholders. The registration statement...
MUMBAI: Promax&BDA has announced that ABC News’ Barbara Walters will open the organisation’s 49th annual conference with an address and her career spanning perspective on the...
MUMBAI: Catch them young! US-based Comcast Corporation is contemplating a network exclusively for kids. The cable giant is in an advanced state of negotiations with Public...
MUMBAI: Just a couple of days after Mel Karmazin left Viacom as its COO another high profile executive has jumped ship. Viacom Entertainment Group chairman Jonathan...
MUMBAI: The next couple of years at Viacom is likely to see a fierce tussle for the CEO’s position. After Mel Karmazin stepped down yesterday as...
MUMBAI: After Viacom what does Mel Karmazin have next up his sleeve? That is the big question doing the rounds of US media circles. There has...
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...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s kids’ entertainment brand Nickelodeon is all set to blow out the candles on its birthday cake. The channel is planning a grand 25th anniversary...
MUMBAI: The American 2004/05 broadcast network upfront advertising season was officially kicked off in the second week of May and the network presentations to ad buyers...
William H Roedy’s belief in localisation is complete. When in India, his business cards are printed in Hindi on one side, English the other. The 55-year-old...
MUMUMBAI: Emmy-award winning home decorating and cooking show Martha Stewart Living Television would be placed on hiatus as Stewart contends with a criminal conviction, informed Martha...
MUMBAI: The days of the sitcom are numbered. Friends and Fraiser recently said goodbye. However Viacom’s broadcaster CBS has managed to convince comic Ray Romano to...
MUMBAI: MTV’s international unit today unveiled a series of 11 new programmes, including a global version of its U.S. dating showDismissed. This happens to be the...
MUMBAI: Viacom, which has just released its results for the first quarter of 2004, says its revenues have jumped 12 per cent to a record $6.8...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom which owns MTV and Paramount has announced that 15 of its board directors will stand for a re-election at the annual stockholders...
MUMBAI: Gay television will shortly receive a shot in the arm. Media conglomerate Viacom is said to be interested in developing a homosexual themed channel for...
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that it placed first in viewers, households, men 18-49, men 25-54 and second in adults 25-54. This was...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom is expanding in China. The company has announced several breakthrough partnerships, including a joint venture with Shanghai Media Group (SMG). This marks...
NEW DELHI: European television format, production and distribution company Fact Based Communications (FBC) is gearing up to enter Indian market, following a tie-up with Rossellini &...
NEW YORK: While the situation between Ten Sports and the Indian cable ops is reading like a cliffhanger in the US Viacom and Echostar have settled...
MUMBAI: For those who thought cable operators fighting with broadcasters over fees is an “Indian malaise”, think again. Much the same issues are behind the head-on...
MUMBAI: One of the biggest television events of the year, the World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) Wrestlemania XX tales place this year on 14 March. In India,...
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Asia has announced that it will launch VH1 Australia next month. This marks MTV Networks’ first fully owned and operated service in Australia....
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom has announced that it has appointed Henry Moniz to the newly created post of VP, associate general counsel, compliance. Moniz will oversee...
MUMBAI: Even after the Walt Disney Company gave the thumbs down to Comcast’s unsolicited bid yesterday, the rejected yet bullish cable giant is betting that time...
MUMBAI: The latest controversy to hit American television revolves around pop icon Janet Jackson partially flashing her bosom during the half time special at the Super...
MUMBAI: Having failed to find a buyer for its Blockbuster video-rental business media conglomerate Viacom is said to be nearing a decision to spin it off....
MUMBAI: Tom Ascheim has been named to the newly created position of executive VP, GM for Nickelodeon in the US. A 13-year veteran of Nickelodeon and...
MUMBAI: Later this year, Viacom’s Showtime Networks will become the campaign headquarters for American Candidate. The unscripted 10 episode reality show will attempt to identify one...
MUMBAI: MTV parent Viacom Inc and recent Rupert Murdoch acquisition DirecTV on Wednesday signed a deal that ensures continued carriage of all MTV Networks’ programme services...
MUMBAI: Cable television majors Viacom Inc and Comcast Corp. have signed a five-year landmark distribution contract, agreeing to broadcast Viacom’s CBS affiliates and national cable networks...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Viacom is looking to sell video rental chain Blockbuster. The unit has had a bad time as of late and a group of...
WASHINGTON: Following a settlement between the US Congress and the White House, media ownership by US television networks has now been capped at 39 per cent...
