Sumner Redstone Videos Did Viacom’s CEO Try to Bribe a Reporter? Seal & Heidi Klum Want Kids to 'Get Schooled' Sumner Redstone , the powerful media magnate behind both CBS and Viacom, has made it his business to find the anonymous source who told Daily Beast writer Peter Lauria that his pet project is angering a handful of MTV executives. Sumner Redstone has taken a liking to a female DJ duo known as the Electric Barbarellas and has footed the bill for them to shop around a demo under the...Read Full Story
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Sumner Redstone (center) with daughter Shari Redstone (right) and granddaughter Kimberlee Korff in 2003. Credit: Kevin Winters / Getty Images
Creditors of Midway Games have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago company’s board members and former majority owner Sumner Redstone , alleging that his sale of Midway in November was a “fraudulent transfer” that benefited...Read Full Story
Yesterday, Sumner Redstone was due in a Manhattan court to speak in regards to the sale of Midway to Mark Thomas . That never happened, but Sumner and business partner Robert Steele’s attornies did appear in a Bankruptcy court in Delaware on Friday in an attempt to get out of the scheduled deposition, Game Politics reports . As a result, Sumner will now be required to appear this upcoming Friday.
Curious is the lack of his daughter, Shari, in any of the proceedings on Friday. She was due to...Read Full Story
Remember a few years ago when Tom Cruise achieved virtual pariah status? He jumped on Oprah's couch, he had a falling out with Viacom's Sumner Redstone, he ridiculed Matt Lauer's glibness (our favorite part of Matt Lauer outside of his smile is his silver tongue), sparred with poor Brooke Shields,...
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Viacom chief Sumner Redstone is facing an embarrassing story about a voicemail message left to a reporter in an attempt to find out the source of a story.
Redstone made the call to Peter Lauria, reporter for the Daily Beast website, about a story on Redstone's interest in pushing MTV to do a show about a band called the Electric Barbarellas. On the message, Redstone tells the reporter that "we're not going to kill" the source, adding: "We just want to talk to him."
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Sumner Redstone fired me in 2006. In retrospect, I should have noticed some signals. I’d had a rift with him a couple of weeks before, when he said he was firing Tom Cruise for the failure of Mission: Impossible III. That led to a real stand ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nickelodeon, the kids' pay TV channel that is home to SpongeBob Squarepants, could soak up the blame for a less-than-stellar quarter for Viacom Inc. The media company controlled by billionaire Sumner Redstone reports its ...
The company also said its Q2 volume was... 10:25 AM Viacom Nearing Subscription Video Deal With Amazon The NY Post reported that Viacom (NYSE:VIA) Chairman Sumner Redstone was "putting the final touches" on an agreement with Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN ...
By Dana Blankenhorn: Shares in Viacom (VIA) cracked early today, then recovered to a gain, after it reported lower profits on slightly lower ad revenues and the settlement of a court case. But underneath all that is a stench of death. No one is facing it, which could spell opportunity. I am not just talking about Sumner Redstone, now 88, Viacom's controlling shareholder. My mom's 88, turns 89 this summer, and people can live and function well...
Media executives' salaries have come under scrutiny in recent years, with media mogul Sumner Redstone and his top lieutenants at Viacom Inc. drawing especially lucrative salaries and compensation packages in 2010. Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman ...
Sumner Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) is a media magnate who owns a controlling share of National Amusements theater chain, through which he owns CBS and Viacom. Find more Sumner Redstone pictures, news and information below.
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein ; May 27 , 1923 ) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain.
Sumner Redstone ranked 63 among The World's Richest People In 2006 ... Age: 82 Fortune: self made Source: Viacom Net Worth: 7.7 Country Of Citizenship: United States
The phrase âpushing the envelopeâ has been part of the popular lexicon ever since Tom Wolfe âs 1979 book, âThe Right Stuff.â For the test pilots Wolfe lionized, âpushing the outside of the envelopeâ meant testing the limits of how far ...