Viacom Acquires Atom Entertainment For $200 Million
Atom Entertainment CEO Mika Salmi confirmed to sister site paidContent.org a WSJ report that Viacom is acquiring the company for $200 millio… Read more »
Atom Entertainment CEO Mika Salmi confirmed to sister site paidContent.org a WSJ report that Viacom is acquiring the company for $200 millio… Read more »
It may just be lazy August ramblings: FT is reporting that Viacom is considering making a bid for social networking site Bebo. Remember, Via… Read more »
Viacom is pairing up with Google to test a video distribution model based on AdSense — test being the operative word here — in an effort… Read more »
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Updated below: MTVN’s 24-hour college network mtvU is expanding its scope by acquiring Y2M: Youth Media & Marketing Networks. Y2M is the par… Read more »
Pali Research’s Rich Greenfield follows his recent harsh assessment of Viacom and his suggestion that CEO Tom Freston’s replacement might be… Read more »
On the heels of tough reports from analysts Richard Greenfield and Aryeh Bourkoff, both the NYT and the WSJ (sub. req.) picked this weekend… Read more »
Updated: read below: MTV is doing a extreme version of CurrentTV in UK: it has already announced plans for its Flux brand (as a mobile and u… Read more »
CTAM Summit 06 is well underway in Boston. I had to cancel my trip so am following from afar. One good resource: the Multichannel News micr… Read more »
So say two different reports today, and one of my sources at MTV says that talks are only in prelim stage (I’m not so sure on the veracity y… Read more »
– Comedy Central, TV Land Surf at TCA: MTVN’s nets Comedy Central and TV Land broke with press tour tradition by emphasizing broadband. TV… Read more »
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Greg Clayman, MTV Networks’ vice president of wireless strategy and operations, has said MTV has no plans to launch an MVNO, saying it “is f… Read more »
Some more reshuffle within MTV Networks/Viacom, but this time on the movie side: Paramount Pictures will bring in house its two sister movie… Read more »
Ad Execs: Online Video Has Little Impact On Upfront TV Ad Plans: Despite the hype, two-thirds of the 140 ad execs surveyed by the American A… Read more »
When the My-Super-Sweet-16-ers grow up, they would be interested in this video site: two former executives at MTV are launching (it will go… Read more »
MTV Networks’ Logo has acquired news site 365Gay.com and Erosion Media’s AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com; it will combine the three with L… Read more »
Digital media buying agency OMD and MTV Networks have struck the first upfront deal worth an estimated $300 million and involving some 30 cl… Read more »
You’re reading it here first … Jason Hirschhorn has resigned from MTV Networks after a six-year run topped off by his late November appoin… Read more »
I was a guest on Tom Ashbrook’s On Point (on WBUR) Monday, along with Brian Cooley, editor at large for CNET for a brief chat about the diff… Read more »
The Urge-WMP11 combo doesn’t officially go to public beta until Wednesday but a leaked version of WMP11 is accessible. These impressions of… Read more »
VH1 and its parent MTV Networks are banking on their hit (well, I like it a lot) show Best Week Ever as the skunkworks for a lot of experime… Read more »
We’ve all been calling it MTV Urge for months but that misses the point. It’s the music service of MTV Networks- not one network — somethin… Read more »
Some betas can sneak onto the scene. That’s not the case with MTV Networks’ Urge, scheduled to move into public beta Wednesday along with th… Read more »
Viacom is well on its way to beating plans for $500 million in digital ad revenue within three years, CEO Tom Freston told analysts on the 1… Read more »
Viacom reported the results of its first quarter as what CEO Tom Freston calls “a new, focused and more nimble company”: a 12-percent uptick… Read more »
MTV’s restructuring with an emphasis on cross-platform/multi-platform programming gets its first real test as the network moves to simultane… Read more »
So far, 2006 has been a lot kinder to some media stocks than the sloughs of despond known as 2005. As 1Q06 results roll in, so do efforts to… Read more »
Updated below: This one was coming for a long time…Xfire was on the block for a while. Now Viacom has snapped it up for $102 million in ca… Read more »
[By Staci D. Kramer] After venue changes at CTIA, Van Toffler, Jason Hirschhorn and I wound up being led through wending passages in the Las… Read more »
[By Staci D. Kramer] A little teaser from a long interview at CTIA with Van Toffler, president, MTV Networks Group President and Jason Hirsc… Read more »
“Shrinking the windows is bad for business,” Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements and vice chairman of Viacom and CBS, told inve… Read more »
MSN Video has renewed its contract with IFilm and will expand its use of the site’s viral videos across all of its own sites. In addition t… Read more »
It is MTV vs Chum in Canada, an interesting multi-platform fight to watch out for…MTV is relaunching in Canada with local broadcaster CTV… Read more »
Maybe this caught my eye because I spent a lot of time on a 10-year-old’s computer last week complete with Neopets screensaver and cursor. (… Read more »
The new programming slate Nickelodeon is showing off for its upfront ad presentations includes a number of programs developed from alternati… Read more »
After some small rumblings from media companies like NBC and CBS (where they asked YouTube to take off unauthorized clips off the service),… Read more »
Viacom CEO Tom Freston told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit the company will get into social networking this year:… Read more »
The NYT headlines did what News Corp. and CBS hoped for, launching a wave of coverage of mobile deals that might otherwise slide right past… Read more »
No, this isn’t our sister site MocoNews.net but we’ve had a slew of mobile content deals worth noting here in the last 24 hours. … The lat… Read more »
Ex-WB CEO Jordan Levin is one of five partners in Santa Monica-based Generate, a production and talent company for three screens — TV, mobi… Read more »
Updated: read below: A combination of a bad quarter for Entertainment and one-time charges dragged Viacom’s net income for 4Q05 down to $130… Read more »
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