<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Viacom Inc.: News &amp; Videos about Viacom Inc. - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Viacom_Inc</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Viacom Inc. from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:30:15 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Viacom Inc.: News &amp; Videos about Viacom Inc. - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Viacom_Inc</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Viacom Inc. from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Stocks start new year with gains</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/02/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/02/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks inched higher Friday morning as investors said good riddance to one of the worst years on record - but showed caution on the first trading day of the new year.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Media giants talking, channels still on cable</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/01/viacom.timewarner/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/01/viacom.timewarner/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Time Warner Cable and Viacom worked Thursday to finalize details on an agreement that will allow TWC customers to continue to watch programming on Viacom's MTV Networks, said TWC president and CEO Glenn Britt.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cable tussle threatens viewers' favorites</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/31/viacom.timewarner/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/31/viacom.timewarner/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Can you live without "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Hills"?</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom's rocky pay-TV picture show</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/24/news/companies/siklos_viacom.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/24/news/companies/siklos_viacom.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In April, Paramount Pictures walked away from a deal to air its movies on pay-TV channel Showtime. Instead, it announced a plan to start up a rival channel with two other longtime Showtime suppliers, MGM and Lionsgate. To the uninitiated, that might have appeared a nugget of passing interest, as in: Great, another movie channel ... I guess.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom, YouTube reach data deal</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/15/technology/google_youtube/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/15/technology/google_youtube/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers' data before complying with a judge's order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>YouTube, Viacom to Mask Viewer Data</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1823017,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1823017,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom Inc. won't be told the identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular video-sharing site YouTube</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom works the media mix magic</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/02/news/companies/simons_viacom_earnings.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/02/news/companies/simons_viacom_earnings.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Does Viacom's mix of media businesses make the company recession-resistant?</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom's magic media mix</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/companies/viacom.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/companies/viacom.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Does Viacom's mix of media businesses make the company recession-resistant?</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks find a bounce at the finish</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_530/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_530/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks staged a late-session rally to finish modestly higher Friday, even as troubling news from the financial sector kept stocks in the red for most of the day.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks turn mixed in midday trade</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_1130/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_1130/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks were mostly lower in midday trade Friday as more troubling news from the financial sector kept stocks under pressure, offsetting a better-than-expected employment report.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks rebound on upbeat jobs report</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_945/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/02/markets/markets_945/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks rebounded modestly Friday from one of its worst sessions of the year, as a better-than-expected employment report outweighed lingering credit market fears.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom's plan to be cool again</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/13/magazines/fortune/siklos_viacom.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/13/magazines/fortune/siklos_viacom.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being bested by Rupert Murdoch in the bidding for MySpace two years ago? Maybe.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom's revenue rises, profit slips slightly</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/02/news/companies/bc.viacom.results.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/02/news/companies/bc.viacom.results.reut/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom Inc. on Thursday posted a better-than-expected profit, boosted by DVD sales and the box office hit "Shrek The Third."</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New crack in the house of Redstone</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/18/news/newsmakers/pluggedin_arango_redstone.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/18/news/newsmakers/pluggedin_arango_redstone.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>A fracture in the relationship between Sumner Redstone, the mercurial 84-year-old mogul who controls CBS and Viacom, and his daughter has become the latest drama within the House of Redstone, and how it plays out could decide the future control of one of the world's great media fortunes.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Viacom could really protect its content</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/15/technology/fastforward_viacom.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/15/technology/fastforward_viacom.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In the epic philosophical and financial battle between West Coast and East Coast, between software and old media, the East this week fired perhaps its biggest gun so far. Viacom filed a $1 billion-plus lawsuit against Google's YouTube, asserting "massive copyright infringement" as a result of YouTube airing hundreds of thousands of video clips taken from Viacom television programs like The Daily Show and South Park.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>YouTube rivals: Thanks, Viacom!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/commentary/mediabiz/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/commentary/mediabiz/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom, with its lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages from Google and YouTube, has shown that it's serious about copyright infringement.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom sues 'GooTube' for $1 billion</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/news/companies/youtube_viacom_reaction/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/13/news/companies/youtube_viacom_reaction/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom sued Google and its online video subsidiary YouTube for $1 billion Tuesday, the first big lawsuit against the online video site and its parent for copyright infringement.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom to provide content to Joost</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/20/technology/viacom_joost/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/20/technology/viacom_joost/index.htm</guid><description>Media conglomerate Viacom is teaming up to provide content to new Web TV service Joost, the companies said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stay tuned for some media stocks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/05/news/companies/mediastocks/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/05/news/companies/mediastocks/index.htm</guid><description>Most major media stocks bounced back sharply this year after a dismal 2005.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Big media seeks new Web blood</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/17/news/companies/media_shakeups/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/17/news/companies/media_shakeups/index.htm</guid><description>With apologies to the Buggles: it looks like video killed the dot-com media star.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The women of Viacom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/16/8388650/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/16/8388650/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom's revolving door - goodbye, Toms Freston and Cruise! - places the media giant's large cast of powerful women in a particular spotlight: as stalwart survivors who keep the businesses going am... </description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anna Deavere Smith on creating creativity at Viacom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/02/magazines/fortune/mpw.deveare_smith.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/02/magazines/fortune/mpw.deveare_smith.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In the early part of this decade, I spent a couple of years in and around MTV Networks, as its artist-in-residence, where my focus was the company's diversity initiative. Having spent my career backstage or onstage, I was new to the corporate world. I was struck by the MTV staff's enthusiasm for sharing ideas and hearing new ones. 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Of course, that's not saying much.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom to buy Xfire, online gaming tech outfit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/technology/viaxfire_reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/technology/viaxfire_reut/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - Viacom Inc. on Monday said it will buy Xfire, an online games technology company, for $102 million in a bid to dominate the youth market on the Internet as it has on television.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Notes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374343/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374343/index.htm</guid><description>DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS </description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom Unbound</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374304/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374304/index.htm</guid><description>THE MEDIA INDUSTRY was shaped by moguls who wanted more of everything--more newspapers, more radio and TV stations, more studios, more power. The great empire builders included William Randolph Hea... </description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mr. MTV Grows Up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374305/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/17/8374305/index.htm</guid><description>Say something in Farsi, Tom. "Dasterast is 'to the right,'" replies Tom Freston, the new chief executive of Viacom. "And dastechap is 'to the left.' Ruberu is 'straight ahead,'" he goes on.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mr. MTV grows up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/07/magazines/fortune/viacom_f500_fortune_041706/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/07/magazines/fortune/viacom_f500_fortune_041706/index.htm</guid><description>Say something in Farsi, Tom. "Dasterast is 'to the right,'" replies Tom Freston, the new chief executive of Viacom. 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So it's not surprising that some analysts believe big media conglomerates should consider breaking up to realize their hidden value.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Media's musical chairs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/06/news/companies/media/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/06/news/companies/media/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom has done it. Carl Icahn wants Time Warner to do it. And some think it could make sense for Disney, Sony and General Electric to do it too.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>SpongeBob or Survivor?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/19/news/fortune500/viacom/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/19/news/fortune500/viacom/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Investors in beaten down media companies are about to find out if breaking up is the answer to the sector's woes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Media execs off their pedestals</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/13/news/fortune500/media_fortune_122605/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/13/news/fortune500/media_fortune_122605/index.htm</guid><description>There was a time when Wall Street treated the CEOs of the largest media companies almost like demigods.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mixed day on Wall St.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks were mixed Monday, with technology the most upbeat, as investors kept an eye on rising oil prices and Treasury bond yields, and geared up for Tuesday's Fed meeting.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks on the rise</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks advanced Monday morning, as investors welcomed a proposed $30 billion merger in the oil industry and Viacom's purchase of DreamWorks, and shrugged off the latest rise in oil prices.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>COMCAST AND VIACOM BATTLE FOR THE KIDS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363120/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363120/index.htm</guid><description>THREE-YEAR-OLDS DON'T HAVE Disposable income. And when it comes to television, few of them channel-surf. Preschoolers, in other words, are not the audience you'd expect to be the focus of a cable T... </description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Media stocks: Just wait until next year</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/fortune500/media/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/fortune500/media/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The year is almost over...and it's not a moment too soon for major media companies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Big mess for big media</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/news/fortune500/media/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/news/fortune500/media/index.htm</guid><description>It's true. There is a liberal bias when it comes to the media... many investors are biased against big media stocks this year and they have liberally sold their shares.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Golden oldies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/boomers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/boomers/index.htm</guid><description>Media companies usually lust after young consumers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom 2.0</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/technology/techinvestor/techbiz/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/technology/techinvestor/techbiz/index.htm</guid><description>Monday's Viacom purchase of Neopets, the hugely popular children's Web site that's a natural fit with the Nickelodeon brand and a natural digital platform for Nickelodeon's properties, is exactly the kind of "targeted acquisition" Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone promised in a press release last week when the company announced its plan to split in two.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Details of Viacom split emerge</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/06/news/fortune500/viacom_moonves/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/06/news/fortune500/viacom_moonves/index.htm</guid><description>Leslie Moonves, the co-president of Viacom Inc., said Monday that he thinks the media giant will split in two.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom: rethinking divorce?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/news/fortune500/viacom_split/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/news/fortune500/viacom_split/index.htm</guid><description>With chairman Sumner Redstone as its champion, a proposal to split Viacom in two seemed like a done deal.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE SUMNER OF LOVE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/05/02/8258465/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/05/02/8258465/index.htm</guid><description>It used to be that nothing could pry Sumner Redstone out of his office in New York City--except maybe a business dinner. Viacom's chairman and CEO literally had no home. He would arise at dawn in h...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom 'committed' to breakup plan</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/news/fortune500/viacom_breakup/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/news/fortune500/viacom_breakup/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone said Tuesday that plans to split the media conglomerate into two separate, publicly traded companies are moving forward and that he is "personally committed" to seeing it happen.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom pays execs big $ for staying home</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/18/news/newsmakers/moonves_freston/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/18/news/newsmakers/moonves_freston/index.htm</guid><description>Les Moonves and Thomas Freston, the co-chief operating officers of media conglomerate Viacom, each saw their roughly $20 million in pay and bonus supplemented by tens of thousands of dollars for staying in their own homes.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom explores split</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/16/news/fortune500/viacom/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/16/news/fortune500/viacom/index.htm</guid><description>Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. may be broken into at least two different publicly traded companies, separating its cable and film assets from its broadcast television and radio business, the company announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Scandal stocks: Viacom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/31/magazines/moneymag/investing_sivy6_0503/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/31/magazines/moneymag/investing_sivy6_0503/index.htm</guid><description>This past year has been tough on the media conglomerate, and not just because of that wardrobe malfunction and the 60 Minutes Wednesday blowup over President Bush's National Guard records.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A Viacom revival</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/17/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/17/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htm</guid><description>The box office was dominated over the long weekend by Coach Carter, which took in a hefty $29 million for Paramount Pictures and MTV, two divisions of Viacom. The film, based on actual events, is a story about a basketball coach who makes some tough calls to force his players to improve their academic grades.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Panning for fool's gold in China?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/24/news/international/china_media/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/24/news/international/china_media/index.htm</guid><description>Between the ongoing turmoil at CBS News and stiff fines for Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident, there was ample reason for Sumner Redstone to stick close to home this week.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Viacom a Survivor? Top fund manager John C. Thompson is wagering that the media giant will once again become a Wall Street da</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/08/01/376483/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/08/01/376483/index.htm</guid><description>Since taking over as lead manager of Thompson Plumb Growth fund from his father in 1998, John C. Thompson has minted a sterling record. His $1.3 billion portfolio is listed in this year's MONEY 100...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pricing Howard Stern</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/09/news/newsmakers/stern/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/09/news/newsmakers/stern/index.htm</guid><description>Howard Stern is looking expensive these days. His employer, Infinity Broadcasting Corp., is reportedly facing a whopping $1.5 million fine for an episode on Stern's morning radio program that included sexual references that government watchdogs say crossed the line.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mel may have a tough job hunt</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/where_karmazin/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/where_karmazin/index.htm</guid><description>Outgoing Viacom President Mel Karmazin is free to work for any of his former competitors. But they may have no need for his particular set of talents, analysts said, despite his strong reputation on Wall Street.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Will Howard Stern go next?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/karmazin_stern/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/karmazin_stern/index.htm</guid><description>Is the show over for Howard Stern?</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom: Farewell, Mel</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/karmazin/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/01/news/fortune500/karmazin/index.htm</guid><description>Mel Karmazin is leaving Viacom Inc., and Sumner Redstone, the boss he fought with, has given a deadline for his departure as well.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Making Money in Media How a new round of dealmaking could unlock the hidden value of these stocks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/05/01/367287/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/05/01/367287/index.htm</guid><description>Suddenly, media stocks are at the center of a dealmaking frenzy. Comcast has made a run at Disney, Viacom is talking about acquiring a cable-TV company, and Time Warner (owner of this magazine) wan...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Making money in media</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/15/magazines/moneymag/sivy_media_0405/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/15/magazines/moneymag/sivy_media_0405/index.htm</guid><description>Suddenly, media stocks are at the center of a dealmaking frenzy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom Plans to Start Gay TV Channel</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/29/news/fortune500/viacom_gaytv.dj/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/29/news/fortune500/viacom_gaytv.dj/index.htm</guid><description>Sumner Redstone, Viacom Inc.'s chairman and chief executive, doesn't like to admit mistakes. But he confessed to one this month: The media company shouldn't have abandoned plans it was studying two years ago for a cable network aimed at gays, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>1Q winners and losers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/markets/bestworst/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/markets/bestworst/index.htm</guid><description>Like a drawn out New Year's Day hangover, the first quarter hit the stock market hard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>No MTV for 9 million DISH viewers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/09/technology/echostar_viacom/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/09/technology/echostar_viacom/index.htm</guid><description>Subscribers to the DISH satellite TV service may want their MTV -- but Tuesday more than 9 million of them couldn't get it, or other Viacom-owned TV channels, because of a contract dispute.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Investments 2003 WAS THE BOUNCE-BACK YEAR WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. WHAT WILL 2004 HOLD? MORE OF THE SAME. HERE'S HOW TO PLAY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/01/01/357223/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/01/01/357223/index.htm</guid><description>When the writers and editors of MONEY set out to find the best stocks for the upcoming year, we recalled a market that caught us by surprise in 2003. Remember SARS? Or how spooked you felt before t...</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ultimate Investment Club: Growth Picks</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/26/magazines/moneymag/investing_growth_0310/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/26/magazines/moneymag/investing_growth_0310/index.htm</guid><description>Growth is back. That's the inescapable conclusion of three of the very best growth-oriented money managers around: Thomas Marsico of Marsico Funds, Jim Oelschlager of Oak Associates and Richard Driehaus of Driehaus Capital Management.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Growth After a long dry spell, our growth gurus are on a serious roll</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/10/01/350553/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/10/01/350553/index.htm</guid><description>Growth is back. That's the inescapable conclusion of three of the very best growth-oriented money managers around: Thomas Marsico of Marsico Funds, Jim Oelschlager of Oak Associates and Richard Dri...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>More Funny Business At Viacom Full ownership of Comedy Central should have the media giant's investors smiling.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/12/342324/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/05/12/342324/index.htm</guid><description>Viacom </description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Kid Stays In The Picture The soap opera at Viacom             will go on--and it isn't hurting a bit.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/04/14/340930/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/04/14/340930/index.htm</guid><description>For evidence of the tensions at the top of Viacom, you only have to look at the contract that Mel Karmazin just signed, keeping him on as president and chief operating officer of the $24.6-billion-...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Have All Stocks Been Disappointing?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/09/01/327275/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/09/01/327275/index.htm</guid><description>Back in January, our "Best Investments for 2002" featured eight stocks we thought could beat the market this year. So far, four of our stocks have done so. But it's been a tough eight months, with ...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Media Giants Cry 'Gimme Shelter'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/15/321434/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/04/15/321434/index.htm</guid><description>There's the standard path to media moguldom (buy a network, amass a stable of magazines). Then there's the route the Decaux family took. Build a lot of bus shelters and self-cleaning public toilets...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best Investments 2002 After two dreary years, the             stock forecast calls for partly clearing skies in 2002. We        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/01/01/315606/index.htm</guid><description>When we sat down in November to begin our hunt for the best investments for 2002, we "lacked visibility" (to use Wall Street's current favorite phrase) about where the market was headed. Specifical...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Enter The Swankoplex</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/08/13/308049/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/08/13/308049/index.htm</guid><description>Imagine sipping a martini, arranging day care, and reserving a taxi or airline flight--all while waiting to enter the 9 P.M. screening of Shrek. That's the idea behind the Bridge: Cinema De Lux (31...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No. 101 Who's The Boss? Viacom President Mel Karmazin             is the company's main man. On that point, even CEO Sumner     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301069/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/16/301069/index.htm</guid><description>Last December, some of the biggest names in the television business gathered in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side for Viacom's annual Christmas party. It was the company's first holiday c...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 Stocks To Last The Decade A few major trends will likely shape the next ten years. Here's a buy-and-forget portfolio to capit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285599/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285599/index.htm</guid><description>Admit it, you still have nightmares about the ones that got away. The Microsofts, the Ciscos, the Intels. They're the top holdings in your ultimate "coulda, woulda, shoulda" portfolio. Oh, what mig...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>You're Only as Good as Your Choices Surprise! Some             dot-coms are worthless! But then again, so are some             c</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281980/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/06/12/281980/index.htm</guid><description>What makes a company worthless? </description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who Wants to Own A TV Network?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275276/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275276/index.htm</guid><description>Just as No. 5 network UPN experiences a renaissance, regularly besting mini-rival the WB, co-owners Viacom and Chris-Craft wrangle over its fate. Frustrated by the negotiations, Viacom wants out; i...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Deal Of A Lifetime Buying CBS gives Viacom's             Redstone a real empire. Can he share power?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/01/01/271483/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/01/01/271483/index.htm</guid><description>At 76, Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone doesn't mind letting you know he's cool. Sure he watches MTV, Viacom's music video network; in fact, he says, just the other day Snoopy stopped by the Viacom build...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sumner [heart] Mel CBS, Viacom, and the Triumph of cable</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/11/267005/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/11/267005/index.htm</guid><description>The Metropolitan Opera House in New York had never seen anything like it. When MTV gave out its 1999 Video Music Awards, Paul McCartney made a surprise appearance with Madonna, pop sensation Ricky ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom: Redstone's Remarkable Ride to the Top Sumner             Redstone led a revival at Blockbuster video, silenced his      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258798/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258798/index.htm</guid><description>Why is it, exactly, that people have always underestimated Sumner Redstone? Could it be that he spent most of his life away from the media glare, running a not-very-glamorous chain of movie theater...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Viacom's Itty-Bitty, Synergistic, Billion-Dollar Franchise This Thanksgiving, if your 6-year-old begs to go to the new Rugrats m</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/23/251439/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/23/251439/index.htm</guid><description>If you don't have kids under 15, chances are you won't know what to make of the tidal wave of publicity about to be unleashed for Rugrats, the movie version of Nickelodeon's top-rated cartoon TV sh...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>There's No Business Like Show Business In fact, it just may be the weirdest business on earth. Today a handful of powerful CEOs </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/06/22/244178/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/06/22/244178/index.htm</guid><description>All this spring along the Potomac, government lawyers and economists were trying to decide whether they should let News Corp. join forces with Time Warner and other cable operators to offer satelli...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A RALLY IS NO MISSION IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS AILING             MEDIA GIANT</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/03/01/210177/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/03/01/210177/index.htm</guid><description>VIACOM (VIAB); AMEX, $39.50; NO YIELD </description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO'S FAIRER THAN DISNEY?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/09/01/205704/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/09/01/205704/index.htm</guid><description>THIS MONTH: </description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE LAST WORD When to sell a takeover target</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/07/01/88977/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/07/01/88977/index.htm</guid><description>Mergers and takeovers are in fashion again. Within the past six months, Viacom snapped up Paramount for $10 billion, Northrop bought Grumman for $2.1 billion, Gerber agreed to be acquired by Sandoz...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW YOU CAN MAKE A BUCK ON THE PARAMOUNT DEAL</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/04/01/88801/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/04/01/88801/index.htm</guid><description>Enough talking about the five-month takeover fight from hell in which Sumner Redstone's Viacom defeated Barry Diller's QVC for the right to pay too much for Paramount Communications. Now for the re...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>LOOK, MA! IT'S THE 1980s!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/18/78487/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/18/78487/index.htm</guid><description>A surge in mergers and acquisitions (see chart) has Wall Streeters digging out their yellow power ties. The revival became particularly festive as home shopping powerhouse QVC Network and cable gia...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>