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...Ellison’s bid would also add a deep bench of media operators including former NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell, who would run broadcaster CBS as well as Paramount’s cable networks, which include MTV and Nickelodeon...
...And its traditional TV business, which includes CBS and MTV, is in steep decline as “cord-cutting” continues....
...The result was an empire ranging from MTV to SpongeBob SquarePants, Simon & Schuster books to CBS News, Mission Impossible to Survivor....
...This was the first time in three years that BlackRock opposed McGrath, the former chair and chief executive of MTV....
...In addition to the movie studio, Paramount owns cable channels such as Nickelodeon and MTV, the CBS broadcast channel, and other free-to-air television channels around the world....
...Activist investor Dan Loeb appeared to pull back from urging Disney to sell or spin off its ESPN sports television network....
...Equally, Yetnikoff liked to claim credit for breaking MTV’s unspoken colour bar, by forcing the network to put Michael Jackson’s video for “Billie Jean” on to heavy rotation by threatening to withdraw permission...
...Included in the colossus: the CBS broadcast network, film studio Paramount, book publisher Simon & Schuster and cable networks MTV and Comedy Central....
...Archegos Capital had large exposure to ViacomCBS, the owner of MTV and Nickelodeon, and several Chinese technology stocks which fell heavily last week as equity sales traders at Goldman and its rival Morgan...
...It owned a handful of cable television networks, including MTV and Comedy Central, among other assets....
...and Cartoon Network, and the broadcaster CBS....
...and the Paramount film studio, home to Top Gun and Star Trek, as well as the broadcast network CBS....
...Cartoon Network, and the broadcaster CBS....
...Viacom, home to MTV, Paramount and Showtime, has recombined with CBS, but ViacomCBS shares fell 18 per cent on Thursday as the new entity recorded a quarterly loss and failed to inspire investors with its...
...Inspired by what he had seen on MTV — the 24-hour-a-day television network playing music videos — he formed SM Entertainment and set about replicating the success of the highly-trained all-singing, all-dancing...
...This summer, MTV India launched MTV Hustle, its first rap reality show, trying to crest the wave of the country’s hip-hop explosion....
...He has worked to revive the fortunes of Viacom, home to once-dominant television networks such as MTV that have lost audiences in the era of Netflix....
...Sales from its media networks unit, which includes cable channels MTV and FX, fell 1 per cent to $2.52bn in the quarter, weighed by a 6 per cent drop in advertising sales....
...Networks and Nickelodeon — in the 1980s....
...As part of an agreement reached last year, the Redstone investment vehicle was not allowed to propose merger talks between CBS and MTV-owner Viacom for two years....
...Mr Bakish has cut costs and focused on Viacom’s most important channels, including MTV and Comedy Central, and also looked to revive the Paramount studio....
...As CBS contemplated a merger with MTV owner Viacom last year, one of the sticking points in negotiations was where Mr Ianniello would sit within the leadership ranks....
...Viacom, like its peers, has been hit by a shift from traditional television towards online alternatives, resulting in plunging viewership for storied channels such as MTV....
...channels such as MTV and Comedy Central, which National Amusements also controls....
...Balazs Hidveghi, a spokesman for Mr Orban’s Fidesz party, said on Monday that it was “quite obvious” that “the Soros network” is behind the protest, referring to George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire...
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