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 »
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Viacom Looking At Social Networking Site Bebo
By Rafat Ali
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, Google To Test MTVN Clips with AdSense; MTVN Downloads For Sale
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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Viacom’s mtvU Acquires Online Campus Newspaper Network Y2M, For About $20M
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 »
Analyst: Redstone Should Take Viacom Private
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 »
Breaking Up Was The Easy Part For Viacom and CBS; Making It Pay Is Another Story
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 »
MTV’s User-Gen TV Channel Flux To Launch in UK; Possible U.S. Rollout
By Rafat Ali
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: MTVN’s McGrath; MySpace’s Gold
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 »
Comedy Central/Viacom In Talks To Buy TheOnion: Reports
By Rafat Ali
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 »
TCA Tour: Comedy Central, TV Land; Broadband Econ; CBS & YouTube
– 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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MTV Has No Plans For MVNO
By James Quintana Pearce
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 »
MTV/Nick Film Units To Report To Paramount; David Gale Heading New Media
By Rafat Ali
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 »
Upfront Update: Ad Execs Say Online Having Little Impact; MTV Could Be Big Winner This Year
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 »
Ex-MTVers Start Video Site For Affluent Urbanites
By Rafat Ali
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 »
MTVN’s Logo Acquires Three LGBT Sites
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 »
MTV Networks Strike $300M Upfront Deal With OMD; Digital 10 Percent Share
By Rafat Ali
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 »
Industry Moves: Jason Hirschhorn Leaves MTV Networks; Nick Lehman Interim Digital Head
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 »
Urge-WMP11: Can’t Win If The Idea Is To Woo Current iPod Users
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 »
Urge/WMP 11 React: Serious Contender With More Work To Do
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 Podcasting Full BWE Episodes, Sans DRM
By Rafat Ali
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 »
First Look: MTVN Urge/Windows Media Player 11
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 »
MTVN’s Urge On Verge Of Live Beta; Debuts Wednesday With WMP11
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 »
Earnings: VIA: Digital Revenue Up 85 Percent
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 »
Earnings: VIA: Q1 Revenues Up 12 Percent; Profit Dips
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 To Air Online, On-Air Versions Of Some Shows Simultaneously
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 »
More On Media Stocks: DIS, NWS, CMCSA, VIA, TWX, ETC.
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 »
Viacom Buys Video Gaming Community Service Xfire For $102 Million; Yahoo Lawsuit Settled
By Rafat Ali
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 »
Interview: Van Toffler, President & Jason Hirschhorn, Chief Digital Officer; MTV Networks Group
[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 »
MTV URGE Will Go To Market As Beta
[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 »
BOA: Shari Redstone Wants Current DVD Windows To Stay Open
“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 Renews IFilm Contract, Expands Use
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 »
MTV’s Multiplatform Relaunch in Canada; Fight Against Chum
By Rafat Ali
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 »
Why Neopets Works As A Way To Reach Kids
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 »
Nickelodeon Continues Multiplatform Programming Experiments; Commits To Multi-million Dollar Develop
The new programming slate Nickelodeon is showing off for its upfront ad presentations includes a number of programs developed from alternati… Read more »
YouTube Ties Up Wth MTV; First Formal Media Company Agreement
By Rafat Ali
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 »
Freston: Viacom Will Enter Social Networking Space
Viacom CEO Tom Freston told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit the company will get into social networking this year:… Read more »
More On News Corp, CBS, Viacom Mobile Deals
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 »
MTVN Supplies Four Sprint TV Channels And First Domestic Streaming Radio
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 »
Industry Moves: Ex-WB CEO Levin’s New Firm Will Supply Content, Talent For Three Screens; Launches
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 »
Earnings: The New Viacom: 4Q05 Down, Fulll Year Up
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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