Sumner Redstone

Join fellow film enthusiasts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Tsai Performance Center for the 32 nd annual Redstone Film Festival. Sponsored by Sumner Redstone, Chairman of VIACOM, the Redstone Film Festival is recognized as one of New England’s ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

VarietyCablevision in a rutVarietyLike Sumner (Redstone), and Mel Karmazin and Frank Biondi," said longtime media investor Hal Vogel, referring to two former top lieutenants of Viacom chairman Redstone. While 84-year-old Charles, or Chuck, Dolan is well respected, James, ...and more »  

Sumner Redstone's charitable foundation has donated $100,000 to A Place Called Home, a non-profit org that aids underprivileged youth in South-Central L.A. A percentage of the gift will support the Adopt-a-Family Program, which matches families with donors ...  

Eddie was the engineer of the foundation upon which Sumner then built that media colossus ... You probably know Max as the über-entrepreneur Mickey Redstone. For his children, playing a role they were cast in and not being the people they ...  

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A Place Called Home (APCH) announced today that it has received a gift of $100,000 from the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation. The donation from Mr. Redstone, Executive Chairman of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation, supports the APCH...  

Anonymous is going after the heads of media companies that support the legislation, the New York Times reports, including Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes and Sumner Redstone of Viacom and CBS. Bewkes' home addresses and phone numbers were posted online ...  

After Sumner Redstone fired Tom Freston from MTV, he helped Vice buy out Viacom's stake for an undisclosed amount and joined Vice as an advisor, one whose part-time status belies the huge role he plays in setting not only the company's strategy but its tone.  

A Time Warner spokesman declined to comment. PHOTOS: The 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the activist group Anonymous has targeted Viacom and CBS mogul Sumner Redstone, posting a file online that ecourages members to ...  

You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do." This was the last straw for Paula Fortunato, child bride of 83-year-old Sumner Redstone who owned Paramount, and she instructed him to do something. He dutifully announced that Tom's behavior was ...  

Sumner Redstone's not tweeting! It does not appear that any other media big shots are eager to follow News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and start tweeting random thoughts. Company Town checked with Viacom as to whether its chairman ...  

While media conglomerates are famous for having dealmaking mogul owners like Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone, the maturity of these businesses combined with the after-effects of a long recession have brought a new shareholder-friendly stance.