Sumner Redstone (born 1923) built a multi-billion-dollar media empire starting with a string of movie theatres in the Boston area. After fighting successfully for ownership of a little-known cable TV ...
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Peter Bart reports in today's L.A. editions of Variety that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone's relationship with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen is going south.
According to his report-which relies...
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Sumner Redstone "played down" reports over the last 24 hours that he had becomed estranged from his daughter and once-presumptive heir, Shari Redstone.
But the effect of his words was to confirms s...
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A family rift at Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. widened Friday as Sumner Redstone, the chairman of both companies, took aim at his daughter Shari, who had been widely expected to succeed him, in a lette...
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YouTube wants to question Comedy Central comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense against claims that the online video-sharing site illegally shows snippets of sports and en...
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YouTube wants to question Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense against claims the online video-sharing site illegally shows snippets of sports and entertainment videos.The request...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Popular comedy shows "The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" are vulnerable
to a Hollywood writers' strike since they require fresh writing
about current ev...
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CBS asked a judge Thursday to dismiss a $70 million defamation lawsuit that veteran television newsman Dan Rather filed against the network and its parent company, arguing that he waited too long t...
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Is it possible that $7,820,581 (and five cents) no longer counts as an expensive apartment in New York?Viacom’s chief financial and administrative officer, Tom Dooley, closed late last month...
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Viacom Inc.'s earnings fell 36 percent in the first quarter, weighed down by higher marketing expenses for movies and a restructuring charge at its MTV group, the media company reported Thursday, b...
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Viacom Inc.'s earnings fell 36 percent in the first quarter, weighed down by higher marketing expenses for movies and a restructuring charge at its MTV group, the media company reported Thursday, b...
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Will Spielberg, Geffen Walk From Dreamworks?
