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...Redstone installed Bakish as chief executive of Viacom in 2016, and he took over as head of the whole company after it merged with CBS in 2019....
...Another person said that former CNN boss Jeff Zucker could help run the CBS news broadcasting unit. A representative for Zucker did not have an immediate comment....
...Years later, Les Moonves, who led CBS, turned CBS into the much more successful company, whereas Viacom was struggling. Robert ArmstrongAnd how did he do that?...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] The American studio Paramount has been a legend in Hollywood. It owns CBS. It brought you The Godfather and, of course, Titanic, but it hasn’t kept up with the streaming revolution....
...in 1994 and moving into television with acquisitions of Viacom and CBS....
...But other assets, including TV networks such as CBS and its lossmaking streaming platform Paramount Plus, could be acquired and then sold to other potential buyers. Skydance declined to comment....
...Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News....
...It has interesting assets, such as the Paramount film studio and sports rights on its CBS network....
...And its traditional TV business, which includes CBS and MTV, is in steep decline as “cord-cutting” continues....
...So the local elections are coming on the 2nd of May. It's not just local councils in England. It's also some mayoralties and police and crime commissioners. Yes....
...A Life of Looking can be viewed from 26 February at fellowship.xyz Inès Cross SEE Epoch at Permanent, Paris Permanent is a 24/7 exhibition space in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement, opened earlier this year...
...Paramount+ and Channel 5 sit very comfortably together the same way CBS and Paramount+ sit in the US.”...
...Rishi Sunak’s facing another tricky by-election on May the 2nd....
...and CBS News....
...Bourque’s neon-light-strewn workshop would once have been surrounded by scruffy studios where the Kinks, Bowie and Rolling Stones made their first recordings....
...With me here in the FT studio are Political fix regulars Miranda Green. Hi, Miranda. Miranda GreenHello, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Jim Pickard. Hi, Jim. Jim PickardHello....
...And to discuss all this, I’m joined in the studio by my FT colleagues Miranda Green. Hi, Miranda. Miranda GreenHello, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Stephen BushHello, Lucy....
...To discuss it all, I’m joined in the studio by my FT colleagues George Parker. Hi, George. George ParkerHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Jim Pickard. Hi, Jim. Jim PickardHello....
...saying: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”...
...He was a ruthless dealmaker, outmanoeuvring Barry Diller in an epic battle for Paramount studios in 1994, followed six years later by the even larger acquisition of television network CBS for $40bn....
...The company, which specialises in tech for gyms and fitness studios, went public in 2015 at a near $1bn valuation. But Stollmeyer didn’t take to being chief executive of a public company....
...The $130,000 payment allegedly made by Trump to buy the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 “doesn’t equate to a crime, is not even close to a crime”, Tacopina told CBS on Friday....
...We’re also getting ready for this fall’s FT Weekend festival, which is on Saturday, September 2nd in Kenwood House in London....
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